Starter quiz
- A food chain always starts with a ...
- 'plant' ✓
- Manatees eat plants on the seabed around them. This is known as ...
- food provided by humans
- grazing ✓
- hunting
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- True or false. Animals can survive without food.
- 'false' ✓
- In this food chain the greenfly is food for the ...
- cabbage
- greenfly
- ladybird ✓
- arrow
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- Put this food chain in the correct order.
- 1⇔acorn
- 2⇔squirrel
- 3⇔fox
- Put this food chain in the correct order.
- 1⇔nettles
- 2⇔caterpillar
- 3⇔blackbird
- 4⇔fox
Exit quiz
- Put this food chain in order.
- 1⇔lettuce
- 2⇔rabbit
- 3⇔fox
- Food chains are made up of plants and ...
- 'animals' ✓
- Izzy is making a food chain and wants to research what lions eat. What could she use to help her?
- scissors
- a book about animals ✓
- a magnet
- A food chain is used to show
- the order that living things depend on each other for food. ✓
- the order of the sizes of living things.
- the order of the strength of living things.
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- Plants and animals play in an important role in food chains. What is a role?
- A role means the order of plants and animals in a food chain.
- A role means the size of the animals in the food chain.
- A role means the part that the plant or animal plays in the food chain. ✓
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- Look at this food chain. What could happen if there were not enough cabbages for the greenfly to eat?
- Some of the greenfly would die and some of the ladybirds would die. ✓
- Some of the greenfly would die but all of the ladybirds would survive.
- All of the greenfly and the ladybirds would survive.
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- A food chain is used to show the order in which living things depend on each other for food.
- Each plant and animal has an important part, or role, to play in a food chain.
- Observations, books, the internet and experts provide information about what animals eat.
Common misconception
Food chains put living things in order of importance.
Explanation of interdependence of each living thing within a food chain.
Keywords
Animals - An animal is a living thing which moves and eats other animals or plants.
Plants - A plant is a living thing that often has roots, stem and leaves.
Food chain - Animals eat plants or other animals. The way this happens is shown in a food chain.
Role - The part played by a person or thing in a particular situation.
Research - To research something is to find out about it, or investigate it carefully.
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