Comparing food chains | Science | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

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Put this food chain in order.
- 1
  
  ⇔
  
  leaves
- 2
  
  ⇔
  
  giraffe
- 3
  
  ⇔
  
  lion
What is the role of the lion in this food chain?
- to be food for the giraffe
- to eat the giraffe ✓
- to eat the leaves
Jun wants to make a food chain. He starts with sunflower seeds and then a mouse. What could be next in the food chain?
- a shark
- a worm
- a barn owl ✓
Sam has made this food chain. Match each living thing to its role.
- leaf
  
  ⇔
  
  to be food for the ladybird ✓
- ladybird
  
  ⇔
  
  to be food for the spider ✓
- spider
  
  ⇔
  
  to eat the ladybird ✓
A food chain shows us...
- every food that an animal eats.
- how animals depend on plants and animals for the food they need to stay alive. ✓
- how plants make their own food.
Aisha uses the internet to find out what sharks eat. This is called...
- observing
- comparing
- researching ✓

True or false. Animals and plants can only appear in one food chain.
- 'false' ✓
What does a food chain show?
- The order that living things depend on each other for food. ✓
- The order that living things depend on each other for shelter.
- Where living things live.
- What living things look like.
Which questions do scientists ask when they compare?
- What is the same? What is different? ✓
- What is first? What is last?
- What is the smallest? What is the biggest?
In this food chain which living thing will be changed if the rabbit is food for a weasel?
- the grass
- the rabbit
- the fox ✓
When we look at what is the same and what is different in food chains we are...
- researching
- sorting
- comparing ✓
Alex's food chain shows that a plant is food for a ladybird and a ladybird is food for a spider. He compares it to the food chain that Jacob has made. What is the same? What is different?
- The ladybird and the spider are the same. The plant is different.
- The plant and the ladybird are the same. The spider is different.
- The plant is the same. The ladybird and the spider are different. ✓

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A food chain is used to show the order in which living things depend on each other
A plant or animal can be part of many different food chains
Different food chains can be compared to look for what is the same and different

A food chain shows the full detail and is a true representation of what organisms eat.

Include explanations that animals have a varied diet and eat many different foods. A food chain only shows one food source at a time.

Food chain - Animals eat plants or other animals. The way this happens is shown in a food chain.
Animal - An animal is a living thing which moves and eats other animals or plants.
Plant - A plant is a living thing that often has roots, stem and leaves.
Compare - We compare things by looking at what is the same and what is different.