Creating food chains | Science | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

Starter quiz

Which living thing is the producer in this food chain? Tree → giraffe → lion.
- 'Tree' ✓
Which living thing is a predator in this food chain? Rose plant → aphid → ladybird.
- 'ladybird' ✓
Which living thing is prey in this food chain? Plant → caterpillar → blackbird.
- 'caterpillar' ✓
Which living things are consumers in this food chain?
- the grass and the rabbit
- the rabbit and the fox ✓
- the grass and the fox
- the grass, the rabbit and the fox
How could you find out what a bat eats?
- carry out your own fair test investigation
- carry out your own research ✓
- carry out your own prediction
Which of these could you do to use secondary sources of information?
- read non-fiction books ✓
- search the internet ✓
- ask an expert ✓

Exit quiz

What information can be used to create a food chain?
- How living things reproduce and have babies.
- Where living things live in different parts of the world.
- How living things depend on each other for food. ✓
Which part of a food chain represents: "is food for"?
- the plant
- the animals
- the arrows ✓
- the labels
What do we call the living thing at the start of a food chain?
- the producer ✓
- the protector
- the predator
Match the type of animal in a food chain with its definition.
- consumer
  
  ⇔
  
  An animal that eats other animals or plants. ✓
- predator
  
  ⇔
  
  An animal that hunts, kills and eats other animals. ✓
- prey
  
  ⇔
  
  An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal. ✓
Laura carries out some research to create this food chain: mouse is food for a badger, badger is food for a bobcat. What is missing from her food chain?
- consumer
- predator
- prey
- producer ✓
We can research what food different animals eat to survive using ______ sources of information.
- 'secondary' ✓

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Key learning points

Information about how living things depend on each other for food can be used to create food chains.
The arrows in a food chain represent 'is food for'.
Food chains consist of a producer and consumers, including predators and prey.
Secondary sources of information help us to research what food different animals eat to survive.

Common misconception

Pupils often think the arrow in a food chain means “eats” or "depends on" and also that arrows should be drawn from predator to prey (rather than prey to predator).

This lesson reinforces the fact the the arrow in a food chain can be interpreted to mean 'is food for'.

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.
Predator - A predator is an animal that hunts, kills and eats other animals.
Prey - An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal is called prey.
Secondary sources - Secondary sources are texts, images or objects created using information gathered by others.