Animals get the energy they need to live from eating plants as herbivores, eating other animals as carnivores, or eating both plants and animals as omnivores. Food webs show what eats what in an ecosystem, with green plants as producers at the bottom and apex predators at the top that are prey to no other animal. Nearly all animals are consumers that get energy by consuming plants or other animals.

2. In order to live animals need energy.
Some animals get the energy they need to live from
eating plants and other vegetation.
Some animals get their energy from eating other
animals.
Some animals eat both plants and other animals.

3. Animals that eat plants are called Herbivores.
Herbivores have evolved to eat plants.
They have specialised teeth and stomachs to enable
them to get the energy they need from plants.

4. Animals that eat plants are called Carnivores.
Carnivores have evolved to eat meat.
They have specialised teeth and stomachs to enable
them to get the energy they need from the bodies of
other animals.

5. Animals that eat plants and meat are called
Omnivores.
Humans are omnivores.
Omnivores have teeth and stomachs that enable them
to eat and digest both plants and meat.

6. Food webs show what eats what in order to gain the
energy it needs to live.
Food webs use arrows to show what eats what.
Eaten by: Eaten by:

7. Nearly all food webs start with a green plant.
Green plants are called producers because they
produce their own food.

8. Animals are consumers.
Some consume plants to get the energy they need to
live.
Others consume other animals.

9. Animals that are eaten by other animals are called
prey.
Some prey animals are herbivores.
Some omnivores and carnivores are also prey to
other animals.

10. Animals that eat other animals are called predators.
Some animals are predators and prey.
This means they eat some animals but are eaten by
others.
The top predator that is prey to no other animal is
called an apex predator.