A Coral Reef Food Chain

A Who-Eats-What Adventure in the Caribbean Sea

From the Series Follow That Food Chain

  • Interest Level: Grade 3 - Grade 5
  • Reading Level: Grade 4

Welcome to a Caribbean coral reef! As you snorkel just offshore, you see brilliant fish, waving sea anemones, diving turtles – maybe even a prowling barracuda! The coral reef is full of life – from coral polyps snagging plankton to a moray eel gobbling up a goby fish. Day and night on the coral reef, the hunt is on to find food – and to avoid becoming someone else’s next meal. All living things are connected to one another in a food chain, from animal to animal, animal to plant, and plant to animal. What path will you take to follow the food chain through the coral reef? Will you . . . Tail a tiger shark as it sniffs out its next victim? Check out a stingray crushing clams? Watch a feathery fan worm trap bits of leftovers? Follow all three chains and many more on this who-eats-what adventure!

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Interest Level Grade 3 - Grade 5
Reading Level Grade 4
Genre Science
Publisher Lerner Publishing Group
Imprint Lerner Publications ™
Language English
Publication Date 2009-08-01
Text Type Informational/Explanatory
BISACS JNF037070, JNF051050
Dewey 577.7'8916
Graphics Full-color illustrations
Guided Reading Level U
ATOS Reading Level 5.4
Accelerated Reader® Quiz 130718
Accelerated Reader® Points 1.0
Features Bibliography/further reading, Charts/Graphs/Diagrams, Glossary, Index, Maps, Table of contents, and Teaching Guides

Author: Donald Wojahn

Author: Rebecca Hogue Wojahn

Becky is a school librarian by day and writer by night (well, actually very early mornings). Her natural habitat is the temperate forests of northwestern Wisconsin, where she shares her den with a husband, two animal-loving sons, and two big black dogs. She is the co-author of all twelve books in the Follow That Food Chain series, as well as the biography, Dr. Kate: Angel on Snowshoes.

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Follow That Food Chain

Play the food chain game! This interactive series shows animals in their habitats while illuminating curriculum concepts related to food webs and biomes. The game-like format allows readers to choose a starting animal, then follow a food chain by selecting among options of what each… View available downloads →