Editing Food Chain Jenga (section)

== Why This Works ==

The Food Chain refers to the chain of producers and consumers that keep ecosystems in check. 
* The bottom layer is the ''Producers'', which are usually shown as the basic plants and fungi (Trees, Grasses, Mushrooms, Algae, etc.). 
* Above the producers you find the first ''Consumers'', the herbivores (Squirrels, Insects, Rabbits, Small Fish, etc.). 
* The next layer is the base-level carnivores and omnivores (Foxes, Snakes, Large Fish, Frogs, etc.). 
* The top layer is the primary carnivores (Wolves, Hawks, Bears, Panthers, etc.).

A healthy food chain has a good balance between the layers: there are enough producers to satisfy and keep the herbivores and omnivores happy, and there are enough carnivores to keep the number of herbivores in check. By using this tower of block, however, we can model a ''Food Chain Collapse'', or when an ecosystem becomes too unstable for all the organisms within it. By having various events happen, students can see how each layer affects the other layers, and can result in a collapse.