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Food webs

Lisa E. Greathouse - Author

A short, illustrated science introduction explains producers, consumers and decomposers as parts of food webs. It also addresses rewilding and human place in the web, with a practical activity to apply the ideas.

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What are food webs and how do they affect our environment? Discover the ways in which food webs work and provide energy to living things in this engaging book! Featuring high-interest, age appropriate text, students will enjoy learning about this topic. Fun facts paired with colorful images and graphics fill the pages of this book to engage students from cover to cover. A Think Like a Scientist activity that supports STEM instruction, is included at the end of the book for students to use what they've learned in the text and apply that knowledge to the activity. A helpful glossary and index are also included for additional support.

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Ecology· ExplainedEnergy· ExplainedProducers· Explained

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Beyond the Cover

ecologyenergyproducersconsumers and decomposers

Non-fiction

Themes in Context

How food webs work

The book explains how food webs provide energy to living things and introduces producers, consumers and decomposers.Exploratory / explanatory

How the book presents it: The informational approach presents ecological concepts rather than a plot or character viewpoint.

Talk about: How does the book explain the parts played by producers, consumers and decomposers?

Why It May Be Worth Reading

The sequence gives readers several entry points into the subject, while the glossary and index offer support for revisiting terms and topics. The experiment provides a way to connect explanation with practical investigation.

What Deserves Attention

The book introduces ecological terms and concepts, including how living things obtain energy and how producers, consumers and decomposers relate within food webs; a glossary is included.

A Conversation Worth Having

What relationships between producers, consumers and decomposers help make a food web, and where do people fit within it?

Reading Approach

Pause at the activity and invite your reader to connect it with an idea from the text. Use the glossary together if a science term interrupts the flow.

Confidence & Basis

Theme indicators describe how the book presents a topic; they are not a verdict on the whole book or your family's values. Confidence reflects how much book-specific material was checked. Only part of the book information was available, so some details remain unconfirmed.

What remains unconfirmed

How food webs work: Readers encounter explanations of food-web relationships, including the roles of producers, consumers and decomposers.

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Checked: 1 October 2026.

Relevant to: How food webs work

Food Webs book by Lisa E. Greathouse