Question

Observe the following figure and fill in the blank with the correct word and complete the figure:

Answer 1

The food chain is the process of 'who eats whom', where the organisms are divided into three categories according to the types of food they eat like:

• Autotrophs are the self-producers and produce their own food, they are the grasses and small plants.
• Herbivores are the plant-eating organisms that are dependent upon the plants for their food, e.g.; insects, bugs etc.
• Carnivores are the flesh eaters and are dependent on the other animal for food, e.g.; Tiger, owls, hawk etc.

In the given food chain, the banana plant is the producer which is eaten by an insect or bug, thus insect is then eaten by a kite which is a carnivore and then the kite is eaten by owl that is a top carnivore. The food chain always starts from the autotrophs and ends up at the top carnivores.

So, the correct order is 'Banana plant $\to$ Bug / insect $\to$ Kite $\to$ Owls'.