My food chain narrative

This story will be about a food web. Exactly what is a food web? Well a food web is a source of animals that gets energy from a different animal. For me I will be doing a short food web. In that food web there will be Seagulls, Crab , Mussels , Zooplankton and Phytoplankton. I’ll explain what they are. I hope you learn something.

What they are:

Let’s start with our producer the phytoplankton.A producer such as a phytoplankton gets its energy from the sun and water. You may think, how is that possible? Well without the sun and water the phytoplankton will be gone by now. Which means that animals that feed on the phytoplankton will have to search for another food (sea animal or plant).

Now for our consumer which is our zooplankton. You are probably wondering what is a consumer? Well it is an animal that feeds on our producer. Yes our phytoplankton. It will make no sense that the zooplankton eats the phytoplankton because there the same species, but yes! So that means the energy that the phytoplankton has, travels to the zooplanktons body which gives the zooplankton energy.
On to our mussel. Can you guess what our mussel is?Well if you said consumer then you got half. Here is the second part. It is a primary consumer. A primary consumer is a consumer that eats plants. Do you know the other word for that? A herbivore.A herbivore is an animal that eats plants.So it make sense because the zooplankton feeds on the phytoplankton which eats the sea grass. So that means that the energy from the zooplankton travels into the mussels. Now here is how the mussel eats the zooplankton. It can’t open its shell but it can stuck up the zooplankton then eat it.It just eats micro animals.

You think that it ends there but it doesn't’. The next animal is a crab. A crab is a consumer as well. Which means it will eat the mussel. That means the energy that the mussel gets will travel to the crab.

Now for our seagull.Yes this is the last animal. Can you guess what our seagull is? Well It is an Apex Predator. If you don't know what at Apex Predator is it on the top of the food chain. What I mean by that is that the Apex Predator is basically the animal that you can't eat. Like us no one can eat humans because we are at the top of the food chain. We basically eat everything well not exactly. Anyway getting back onto our theme the seagull gets its energy from the crab. You're probably wondering how it happens? Well what happens is that the seagull waits until it comes out. Then it dives in and gets it.So that means the energy from the crab travels to the seagull.

Now that you know what a food chain is, and what are their names. Let’s get into the story.

Once there was are phytoplankton called plankton. He lived with his family in the rocky shore. In his family there was his brother,sister,mum and dad. He was the youngest one in the family. His family would also hide from the crabs.

There was one time when phyto went out and a crab almost chased him for dinner. Now these days phyto has to go with his brother. He is also embarrassed because the kids his age also laugh and say “ I can’t believe he still holds his brothers hands, I mean this is ridiculous”.

Now that he is twelve he can finally go out and get some food for his family. He went out the next and before he could even get the food the crabs were surrounding him.

He was in deep deep trouble. Until a group of zooplanktons came to his aid. You think that is ridiculous because the zooplankton eat phytoplankton, but this time there were kind. There was a zooplankton called zoo they tried to scare away. After 10 minutes phyto family started to worry.

There were more and more crabs coming until seagulls came and grabbed the crabs and took them to a special place. There was even a seagull name Scuttle who yelled out “ thanks for getting our dinner little phytoplankton”.

Phyto went back home and gave his family food. The seagulls on the other hand gobble up the crabs. The end.