Year 2 Living Things and Their Habitats

Some things are alive. Some things
used to be alive but are now dead.
Some things have never been alive.
Under each picture, write either
‘alive’, ‘dead’ or ‘never alive’.
When working out if something is Here is a food chain. What do the
alive, dead or has never been alive, arrows mean?
we can think about what things
can do. Can you think of two
things that only something that
is alive can do? Write them below. seed shrew fox

1.

2.

Circle the living thing that should

Put these living things in the order
go at the end of this food chain. Fill in the missing letters to make
they would be in a food chain:
types of habitats (places where
cow human grass
grass grasshopper shrew
? living things live).
1.
r v r f r s
2.
w d oc a
3.

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 Year 2 Living Things and Their Habitats
Draw a line to match each word to Write ‘true’ or ‘false’ next to each Draw a line from the living thing
its meaning. sentence. to its habitat.
woodland
To stay alive. A butterfly’s microhabitat is a web.
habitat This describes
living things that rainforest
microhabitat need each other. A bee’s microhabitat is a hive.
A natural
depend desert
place where A caterpillar’s microhabitat is
something lives. an anthill.
survive
A very
ocean
small habitat.
To survive, animals need plants.
A fallen log is a microhabitat. It Give one example of how plants
is dark and warm inside. What help animals to survive. Fill in the missing letters to make
minibeasts might live under a types of microhabitats.
fallen log?
fl we gr s

s l l v s

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Year 2 Living Things and Their Habitats - Answers
Some things are alive. Some things When working out if something is Here is a food chain. What do the
used to be alive but are now dead. alive, dead or has never been alive, arrows mean?
Some things have never been alive. we can think about what things
Under each picture, write either can do. Can you think of two
‘alive’, ‘dead’ or ‘never alive’. things that only something that
is alive can do? Write them below. seed shrew fox
Answers include: moving,
The arrows show the flow of
breathing, growing, reproducing,
alive alive never alive energy/what eats what.
excreting, sensitivity to the
environment, nutrition (accept
child versions of these things).
dead never alive alive
Circle the living thing that should
Put these living things in the order
go at the end of this food chain. Fill in the missing letters to make
they would be in a food chain:
types of habitats (places where
cow human grass
grass grasshopper
? living things live).
1. grass
shrew

river forest
2. cow
wood ocean
3. human

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Year 2 Living Things and Their Habitats - Answers
Draw a line to match each word to Write ‘true’ or ‘false’ next to each Draw a line from the living thing
its meaning. sentence. to its habitat.
woodland
To stay alive. A butterfly’s microhabitat is a web.
habitat This describes false
living things that rainforest
microhabitat need each other. A bee’s microhabitat is a hive.
A natural true
depend desert
place where A caterpillar’s microhabitat is
something lives. an anthill.
survive
A very false ocean
small habitat.
To survive, animals need plants.
A fallen log is a microhabitat. It Give one example of how plants
is dark and warm inside. What help animals to survive. Fill in the missing letters to make
minibeasts might live under a types of microhabitats.
fallen log? They provide shelter for animals.
They are food for animals.
Animals include woodlice, worms, flower grass
beetles, centipedes.
soil leaves

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