Food Chains

National Curriculum Objectives

Science Year 4: Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers,
predators and prey. More resources with this objective.

Differentiation:

Beginner Read a simple food chain and identify the producer, prey, and predator.
Aimed at Year 4 Emerging.
Easy Read a simple food web. Fill in examples of food chains found in the food web.
Aimed at Year 4 Developing.
Tricky Use a word bank to fill in the missing animals in a food web. List all the
producers, prey and predators found in the food web. Aimed at Year 4 Secure.
Expert Draw the missing arrows to complete the food web. List all producers, prey
and predators found in the food web. Aimed at Year 4 Mastery.

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Complete the two simple food chains below using only the plants and animals in
this food web.

Food chain #1:

Food chain #2:

Give an example of a producer:

Give an example of prey:

Give an example of a predator:

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Complete the two simple food chains below using only the plants and animals in
this food web.

Food chain #1:

leaves or grass giraffe lion

Food chain #2:

leaves or grass antelope cheetah

Give an example of a producer: leaves or grass

Give an example of prey: giraffe or antelope

Give an example of a predator: lion or cheetah

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Read the food web. Fill in three food chains below using only the animals in the
food web.

Food chain #1:

Food chain #2:

Food chain #3:

How many examples of predators are in the food web?

How many examples of prey are in the food web?

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Read the food web. Fill in three food chains below using only the animals in the
food web.

Food chain #1:

leaves giraffe lion

Food chain #2:

grass zebra lion

Food chain #3:

berries monkey lion

How many examples of predators are in the food web? 1

How many examples of prey are in the food web? 3

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Fill in the missing animals from the food web using the word bank below.

hawk

owl

snake

mice

cow frog grass

human rabbit insects

Give an example of a producer from the food web:

Give an example of prey from the food web:

Give an example of a predator from the food web:

Give an example of an animal that is both prey

and a predator.

Are humans producers, prey, or predators?

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Fill in the missing animals from the food web using the word bank below.

human hawk

owl

snake frog

cow rabbit mice

insects

grass

cow frog grass

human rabbit insects

Give an example of a producer from the food web: grass

Give an example of prey from the food web: cow, rabbit, mice, frog, etc

Give an example of a predator from the food web: snake, owl, hawk, human

Give an example of an animal that is both prey

snake, owl
and a predator.

Are humans producers, prey, or predators? predators

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Fill in the missing arrows to complete the food web.

human hawk

snake

fox frog

deer squirrel rabbit mouse

insects

leaves seeds

Fill in the table giving all examples of producers, prey and predators found in the
food web. Some animals may belong in more than one category.

Producers Prey Predators

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Fill in the missing arrows to complete the food web.

human hawk

snake

fox frog

deer squirrel rabbit mouse

insects

leaves seeds

Fill in the table giving all examples of producers, prey and predators found in the
food web. Some animals may belong in more than one category.

Producers Prey Predators

leaves deer fox

seeds squirrel snake

rabbit frog

mouse hawk

insects human

frog

snake

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