River Food Chains

This book explores the food chains and webs that exist in river habitats. It equips readers with crucial vocabulary, using examples from that habitat to explain the roles of producers, consumers and decomposers, and illustrates how living things depend upon each other. Readers learn how fragile food chains can be, how they can be broken, and what we can do to prevent this.

One of a series of titles which explore the intricate feeding systems of the world's key environments.

This book explores the species and food chains within a river habitat, and discusses why these food chains need to be protected.

Welcome to the Nile River in Egypt! As you slosh through the river bank and puddle-jump the marshy areas, you can hear birds calling, frogs peeping and little scurrying sounds from the underbrush. The Nile River is full of life, from Egyptian vultures snatching ostrich eggs to golden jackals gnawing on a dead rabbit. Day and night in the Nile River delta, the hunt is on to find food - and to avoid becoming someone else’s next meal. All the living things are connected to one another in a food chain, from animal to animal, animal to plant, plant to insect, and insect to animal. What path will you take to follow the food chain through the river delta? Will you . . . Swoop through the air with an Egyptian slit-faced bat hunting insects? Stalk for frog dinner through thick reeds with a swamp cat? Scavenge for road kill with a striped hyena? Follow all three chains and many more on this who-eats-what adventure!

The elimination of the smallest link in the food chain can upset the delicate balance of nature's food supplies. This series looks at the intricate food chains found in different habitats all over the world and how we can protect them. Each titles defines

There are many food webs connecting different types of animals in river ecosystems. Within this accessible and engaging book, popular animals are categorized and given in-depth descriptions. Readers gain an understanding of an animal's needs for survival and broaden their knowledge of this essential science curriculum topic. An informative glossary and detailed graphic organizers provide extra insight. Compelling design elements including full-color photographs of animals in their natural habitats and visual representations of food webs add to this fun and fact-filled reading experience.

Children will enjoy exploring the vast prairies of North America in Prairie Food Chains. Young readers will learn about the different types of prairie habitats, how animals get the nutrients they need, and the fascinating adaptation some prairie animals undergo to survive in their habitats.

Discusses rain forests and the three levels of the food chain therein.