Let's build a food chain with a mountain lion and a shrub! Here's how it works:

* Producers: The shrub is a producer. It makes its own food through photosynthesis, using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide.

* Primary Consumers: A deer or rabbit might eat the shrub. They are primary consumers, meaning they eat plants.

* Secondary Consumers: The mountain lion is a secondary consumer. It hunts and eats the deer or rabbit.

* Decomposers: When the mountain lion dies, decomposers like bacteria and fungi break down its body, returning nutrients to the soil.

Here's the food chain in order:

Shrub → Deer/Rabbit → Mountain Lion → Decomposers

Transparency Example:

Imagine a clear plastic sheet. On one side, draw a simple picture of a shrub. On the other side, draw a deer or rabbit. On the next side, draw a mountain lion. Finally, draw a picture of bacteria or fungi to represent the decomposers.

You can move the layers to show how the animals depend on each other. For example, when you slide the deer/rabbit layer over the shrub layer, it shows that the deer/rabbit eats the shrub. Similarly, sliding the mountain lion layer over the deer/rabbit layer shows that the mountain lion eats the deer/rabbit.