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00:00Ok, food is super important. Super important. It's a big part of your day, right?
00:07You need food to live, right? It's very important.
00:12You know, if you've seen many of our videos, that we love carrots.
00:15Carrots are a great example of a food that can give us lots of energy, that can help us through the day.
00:22Food isn't just for people. Here's a dog eating a treat. That looks yummy, you know, for a dog.
00:30You know, fish have to eat, and so do bears. Look at this bear eating berries.
00:35It's kind of funny, a bear eating berries. That's only kind of funny.
00:42Enjoy your berries, Mr. Bear. Sorry, it's, you know, enjoy. Keep eating, keep eating.
00:47Did you know even plants, like trees, need food? Did you know that? Isn't that cool?
00:54In fact, all living things need food. All living things need food. But how do they get that food?
01:05Hmm, that's a good question. That's what this video is all about.
01:10To find out how living things get food, you will be learning about something called the food chain.
01:18Can you say that with us? The food chain. Yes, the food chain.
01:25Now, a food chain isn't an actual chain of food, like a long chain of carrots, okay?
01:33That's not what the food chain is, even though that would be really cool.
01:37The food chain explains how living things get the food they need. The food chain.
01:46There are different parts of the food chain.
01:49We are going to learn about the different parts of the food chain to see how living things get food.
01:57First, we are going to learn about producers.
02:00Producers make up the first part of the food chain.
02:06Producers are living things that make their own food.
02:10If a living thing creates its own food, it is a producer.
02:16We are surrounded by producers everywhere we go because every plant is a producer.
02:23Yep, every plant in the entire world is a producer.
02:31That grass, it's a producer. It makes its own food.
02:35Those trees, they are producers. They make their own food.
02:40These flowers, they are producers. They make their own food.
02:48Now wait, how can plants make their own food?
02:51You never see a plant in the kitchen saying,
02:53Hey, I'm going to cook something real fast. I need to make some of my own food.
02:58So, can you tell me where the pans are?
03:02No. Plants make their own food through a process called photosynthesis.
03:08Wow, that's a big word. Photosynthesis.
03:11Photosynthesis is amazing.
03:14Plants use energy from the sun to make their own food.
03:19That's why plants need sunlight.
03:21So plants make their own food, but they don't cook or bake.
03:25They get energy from the sun to make their own food.
03:29Photosynthesis.
03:32You know, that's one of the reasons you'll never see plants shopping for groceries to get food.
03:38You'd have to tell the plant,
03:40Hey, don't you use energy from the sun to make your own food using photosynthesis?
03:45It's nice to meet you and everything, but you need to make your own food using sunlight, water, and air.
03:52You're a producer.
03:55So, when the sun is shining on plants, just think of how the sunlight is helping the plants make their own food.
04:03Using photosynthesis.
04:05That is how plants are producers.
04:07They make their own food.
04:09Producers make their own food.
04:13Okay. Pull it together.
04:16Wait, let's cut off the sad music.
04:19There's nothing sad about photosynthesis or sunlight.
04:24Where were we?
04:27Oh yeah, it's time to see the next part of the food chain.
04:31Consumers.
04:34Consumers.
04:38Now, consumers have to look outside of themselves for food.
04:42They cannot create their own food using photosynthesis as producers can.
04:47As you might have guessed, we humans are consumers.
04:50We don't make our own food using photosynthesis.
04:54Now, there are farmers who grow food, cooks who make different foods, but we are all consumers.
05:00We didn't make our own food within ourselves.
05:03We eat the foods in our environment or around us that help us stay healthy and strong.
05:10And we aren't alone.
05:12You know, fish are consumers.
05:15Cats are consumers.
05:17Birds are consumers.
05:19Animals are consumers.
05:24It's interesting. There are different types of consumers.
05:27There are herbivores, which are consumers that eat only plants.
05:33There are carnivores, which are consumers that only eat meat.
05:39And there are omnivores that eat a combination of plants and meat.
05:45Okay, let's see if we can remember this.
05:47All right.
05:48So, herbivores stick to plants.
05:51That's what they eat.
05:52Carnivores eat meat.
05:54And omnivores eat a combination.
05:58This will be fun.
06:00Can you guess what type of consumer a gorilla is?
06:04Hmm.
06:06What type of consumer is a gorilla?
06:12Yeah.
06:13Gorillas are herbivores.
06:15They eat only plants.
06:17They love eating plants with leaves and enjoy bamboo as well.
06:23Gorillas are herbivores.
06:25They eat only plants.
06:29All right.
06:30Can you guess what type of consumer a frog is?
06:34What type of consumer is a frog?
06:39Frogs are carnivores.
06:41Yeah.
06:42They only eat meat.
06:44They love eating insects, worms, and if they are big,
06:48they can eat bigger creatures like mice, small snakes, and more.
06:54Frogs are carnivores.
06:56They eat only meat.
06:59Hey, what about us humans?
07:02We are considered omnivores.
07:04That means we have the ability to eat a combination of plants and meat.
07:09Just because we can eat a combination of the two
07:12doesn't mean we have to though.
07:14Many people around the world only eat plants.
07:17Many others around the world eat a combination of the two.
07:20But because we have the ability to eat both,
07:23scientists consider us omnivores.
07:27Remember the bear from the beginning?
07:29Bears are omnivores too.
07:31They like eating berries, but they also can eat meat.
07:35They eat a combination of plants and meat.
07:38They're omnivores.
07:42Okay.
07:43Now we have come to a very interesting part of the food chain.
07:47Decomposers.
07:49Decomposers.
07:50Can you say that with us?
07:51Decomposers.
07:53That's right.
07:56This might sound weird,
07:57but decomposers are living things that take apart dead animals.
08:02That's right.
08:03They take apart dead animals.
08:07Decomposers have a very important job.
08:10They break down dead animals
08:12so that plants can get more nutrients from the soil.
08:18Some examples of decomposers are fungi, worms, and snails.
08:23But how do they take apart dead animals?
08:26Well, decomposers like to eat dead things.
08:31In the case of fungi,
08:33they release stuff called enzymes,
08:35which break down dead matter,
08:37and then the fungi takes in the nutrients.
08:41You've probably seen fungi before.
08:43Did you know that mushrooms are fungi?
08:46That's right.
08:47Oh, no, that reminds me of a joke.
08:49Can I tell the joke?
08:51I don't know if I can resist.
08:53That mushroom sure looks like a fungi.
08:57I get it because mushrooms are fungi.
09:03Feel free to share it with your friends.
09:04It's comedy gold.
09:07So, decomposers break down dead animals,
09:10which helps the soil.
09:12The better soil helps the producers,
09:14which are plants.
09:15Then consumers eat the producers,
09:18other consumers, or both,
09:20depending on what type of consumer they are.
09:22Then, after the consumers die,
09:25the decomposers break them down to help the soil.
09:28And it starts all over again.
09:31It's like this chain.
09:33It's the food chain.
09:36Remember, the parts of the food chain are
09:38producers, consumers, and decomposers.
09:42All living things need food,
09:44and every living thing has its place in the food chain.
09:50Producers make their own food using photosynthesis.
09:54Consumers can't make their own food.
09:56They eat plants or meat or both,
09:58depending on what kind of consumer they are.
10:01And decomposers eat dead animals,
10:04bringing nutrients to the soil to help the producers.
10:07What a chain.
10:09The food chain.