Food chains
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Draw a food chain with four living things from a garden or a farm. Add arrows.
Check that the first is a plant and arrows point from food to eater.
2
Mark producer, herbivore and carnivore on your chain.
Answers differ.
3
Write what would happen if a food chain loses its middle link.
Animals below may increase, and those above may lose food.
4
List three animals and say if each is a herbivore, a carnivore or an omnivore.
Answers differ; for example cow herbivore, lion carnivore, hen omnivore.
5
Explain how plants and animals help each other with gases.
Plants give oxygen, animals give carbon dioxide.