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Consolidation Worksheet 1
How Do Organisms Get Their Energy?
Look at the following statements and tick in the columns below to indicate whether
they are true or false.
Statements True False
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Consolidation Worksheet 2
How Is Energy Transferred Between
Organisms?
For each food chain, arrange the organisms shown in the correct order.
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Consolidation Worksheet 3
What Happens When Living Things Die?*
Group these organisms according to whether they are decomposers or
scavengers in the flowchart below.
Organisms
Decomposers Scavengers
* This section contains additional materials not covered by the Cambridge Primary Science curriculum framework.
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Consolidation Worksheet 4
What Are Food Webs?*
The diagram below shows a food web. Using the clues given about Organisms A, B,
C, D and E in the box below, fill in the food web with the correct organisms.
Clues:
1. Organism A is a carnivore.
2. Organism B is a food producer.
3. Organism C is a herbivore. It has only one predator.
4. Organism D is a herbivore. It has two predators.
5. Organism E is an omnivore. It is both a prey and a predator.
* This section contains additional materials not covered by the Cambridge Primary Science curriculum framework.
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Practice
Process skills: Observing, Analysing, Inferring
A farmer grows Plant A in his field. Animals B and C are also found in his field.
They form the food chain below.
The following graph shows what happened to the populations of A, B and C when
the farmer used a pesticide to get rid of Animal C.
Number of
organisms
0 Time
b. What would happen to the population of Animal B after the farmer harvests
his crop? [1 mark]
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1. Organism A is a carnivore.
2. Organism B is a food producer.
3. Organism C is a herbivore. It has only one predator.
Bacteria Bread mould Earthworm 4. Organism D is a herbivore. It has two predators.
5. Organism E is an omnivore. It is both a prey and a predator.
Organism D
Organisms
Decomposers Scavengers
Organism B Organism E Organism A
Bacteria Earthworm
Bread mould Hyena
Mushroom Vulture
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b. What would happen to the population of Animal B after the farmer harvests
his crop? [1 mark]
The population of Animal B would decrease.
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Glossary
Chapter 5:
Food Chains
Chlorophyll A green pigment in plants that helps plants to make food through
photosynthesis
Decomposer An organism that breaks down dead animals and plants into
simpler substances
Food consumer An organism that depends on other living things for food
Scavenger An animal that feeds on dead matter or waste products of other
organisms