*The Circle of Life*



   The circle of life is a very simple process in which animals die, decompose and then become the soil in which plants grow. Then a new animal eats that plant.  
   
    It is a cycle in which energy circulates. One animal eats an animal and absorbs its energy.  All this energy comes from the sun. If there was no sun, no living creature would survive. It's really the circle of energy, but in a way, energy = life!  That is why they call it the "Circle of Life".
   
    This relates to endangerment because all animals eat each other in some way or another. If one animal becomes extinct then it affects the whole circle, because once the circle is broken then it ends up like a chain reaction.  When a certain animal population disappears it affects all of the other animals.   And so on and so forth, like a circle.  
 

    Below you can see examples of the circle of life.  Eventually, that baby will become an old man and the chicken might get cooked and eaten. That goat will eventually die and get eaten by another creature."We are all connected in the great circle of life".
 
                                 
                                                               




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