Consumers in a food chain | Science | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

Starter quiz

What do we use in a food chain that represents 'is food for'?
- equal sign
- arrow ✓
- dotted line
Which of these living things would be food for a fox?
- lion
- chicken ✓
- rabbit ✓
- wolf
Which of these living things would be food for a cat?
- leaves
- straw
- sparrow ✓
- mouse ✓
Food chains start with ...
- a plant. ✓
- an animal.
- an arrow.
A plant is known as a ______ in a food chain.
- 'producer' ✓
Match the type of animal with what food it eats.
- carnivore
  
  ⇔
  
  eats only other animals ✓
- herbivore
  
  ⇔
  
  eats only plants ✓
- omnivore
  
  ⇔
  
  eats other animals or plants ✓

Exit quiz

What does a food chain show?
- How living things make their own food.
- How some living things are more important than others.
- How living things depend on each other for food. ✓
- How long different living things can survive for.
What does the arrows in this food chain show?
- The plant eats the caterpillar and the caterpillar eats the bird.
- The plant is food for the caterpillar and the caterpillar is food for the bird. ✓
- The bird is food for the caterpillar and the caterpillar is food for the plant.
Which of the statements below are correct?
- Animals make their own food.
- Animals do not make their own food. ✓
- Animals must hunt or find plants or other animals to eat to survive. ✓
- Animals must grow plants to eat to survive.
Animals in a food chain are called ______ because they eat plants or other animals.
- 'consumers' ✓
The first consumer (primary consumer) in a food chain can be ...
- a herbivore. ✓
- a carnivore.
- an omnivore. ✓
- a producer.
True or false? Consumers are arranged in a food chain in order of how important they are.
- True
- False ✓

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Lesson Details

Key learning points

A food chain shows how living things depend on each other for food. The arrows in a food chain represent 'is food for'.
Animals do not make their own food. They need to hunt or find plants or other animals to eat to survive.
Animals are called consumers in a food chain because they eat plants or other animals.
The first consumer in a food chain (primary consumer) can be a herbivore or an omnivore.
Consumers are not arranged in order of importance, rather they all depend on each other for survival.

Common misconception

Pupils may think that the consumers in a food chain are organised in order of importance.

This lesson focuses on food chains showing how living things depend on each other for food. Individual living things in a food chain are just as important as each other.

Keywords

Food chain - A food chain shows how living things depend on each other for food.
Producer - A producer in a food chain makes its own food.
Consumer - A consumer in a food chain is an animal which eats other animals or plants.
Herbivore - A herbivore is an animal which eats only plants.
Omnivore - An omnivore is an animal which eats both plants and other animals.