Food Chain Cards & Charts

Understanding food chains highlights the natural world's interconnectedness, showing how organisms rely on one another for survival and the vital role each species plays in an ecosystem.

Use these Food Chains Sorting Cards to build food chains with 3, 4, or 5 links that show the flow of energy from plants to animals. Use the control charts to verify the chains' accuracy.

This set includes:

  • food chain information page
  • simple food chain diagram
  • complex food chain diagram
  • an example of a terrestrial food chain
  • an example of a marine food chain
  • 6 food chains with 3 links (control chart & 18 pictures)
  • 5 food chains with 4 links (control chart & 20 pictures)
  • 5 food chains with 5 links (control chart & 25 pictures)
  • food chain pyramid (colored, labeled, blackline master)
  • set of green arrows

The cards are in a three-part format:

  • cards with labels
  • cards without labels
  • labels

To use these three-part cards, match the labels to their corresponding pictures. Use the labeled control cards to verify the matches.

Picture cards are approx. 2¼" x 2¼".

This file is in PDF format.