Pass the Energy, Please!
Food manufacturing starts with a seed, and energy waits in a plant to be freed. Like an engine that powers the rest of a train, a plant's the first link in an energy chain.
Each creature that feeds on a plant is a link, absorbing energy, quick as a wink. If that feeder, itself, becomes someone's next meal, it lengthens the chain, like a new link of steel.
And so there's a pattern of energy passed: a food chain has formed, first hitched to last. Each living thing is a link in a chain with a purpose that Nature can always explain.
- Age Level = 6-12
- Book Author = Barbara Shaw McKinney
- Book Material = Paperback
- Book Publisher = Dawn Publications
- Copyright = c1999
- Grade Level = Elementary
- Illustrator = Chad Wallace
- Condition = New
- Subject = Science
Item ID: 45497
Category: Nature