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

Starter quiz

Which of these are basic needs of animals?

water ✓

air ✓

friends

food ✓

toys
What information can be presented in a food chain?

A chain of events which explains what time of day different animals eat food.

A list of foods for shopping.

The order in which living things depend on each other for food. ✓
How are herbivores and carnivores different from one another?

Herbivores only eat plants, carnivores eat both plants and animals.

Herbivores eat any food, carnivores only eat meat.

Herbivores only eat plants, carnivores eat other animals. ✓
What do the arrows in a food chain represent?

eats

is food for ✓

is bigger than
Herbivores depend on ______ to stay alive or survive.

'plants' ✓
Which statement is true about plants?

A plant needs to hunt other plants for food in order to survive.

A plant does not need food to survive.

A plant makes its own food to survive. ✓

Which statement about plants is true?

Plants are living things. ✓

Plants are not living things.

Plants can move around and hunt for food.

Plants can make their own food. ✓
Plants make their own food, so they are called the ______ in a food chain.

'producer' ✓
Which of the following are producers in a food chain?

grass ✓

deer

clover plant ✓
What do plants do during the process called photosynthesis?

get smaller

make food ✓

lose their leaves

change colour
Where would you put a plant in a food chain?

At the start of the food chain. ✓

In the middle of the food chain.

At the end of the food chain.
Which of these do plants need to make food?

water ✓

flowers

sunlight ✓

carbon dioxide ✓

garden

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Plants are living things that cannot move around to hunt for food. They must make their own food to survive.
Plants use water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide to make a sugar that it can use as food.
A food chain begins with a plant, this is the producer in the food chain.
Plants are called producers because they make, or produce, their own food.

Pupils may think that a plant is at the start of the food chain because it is the smallest organism or because it cannot eat an animal.

This lesson makes reference to the fact that the plant is the producer in a food chain because it makes, or produces, its own food.

Plant - A plant is a living thing that often has roots, a stem and leaves.
Absorb - To absorb is to be able to soak up or take in.
Photosynthesis - Photosynthesis is the way in which plants make food.
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.