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Language worksheet 1
Vocabulary building
Use the clues to find words with those meanings in the word search grid.
Circle each word you find and write the word next to its meaning.
Clues
energy
makes things move or change _______________
to say what you think will happen _______________
predict
transfer
to move something from one place to another _______________
conclusion
what you find out from the results of an investigation _______________
energy that makes the temperature of something increase _______________
heat
the order in which animals eat plants and other animals to get energy _______________
food chain
herbivoure
the name for an animal that eats only plants _______________
the name for an animal that eats other animals _______________
carnivoure
omnivoure
the name for an animal that eats plants and other animals _______________
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Language worksheet 2
Skills development
Food chains always contain a producer, a predator and prey.
1 What is a producer?
A producer is a plant that makes its own food.
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2 What is the difference between a predator and prey?
A predator is an animal that kills and eats another animal. The animal that the predator
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kills and eats is the prey.
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3 Write down the names of the predator and the prey in each of the sentences below.
a A shark eats a turtle.
shark
predator ___________________________________________________________________
turtle
prey _______________________________________________________________________
b A fly is caught in a spider’s web.
spider
predator ___________________________________________________________________
fly
prey _______________________________________________________________________
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4 Read about pythons and then answer the questions.
Most pythons are giant snakes. Pythons live in moist, hot places in Asia and Africa.
They are carnivores.
Pythons have very strong muscles.
They use their muscles to coil their bodies around their prey and slowly squeeze
them until they die.
The python then swallows its prey whole, starting with the head.
Most pythons are green or brown in colour.
These colours allow them to blend in with their surroundings and surprise their
prey so that they can coil around them and eat them.
a Are most pythons big or small?
Write a down a word from the reading that tells you this.
giant
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b Do pythons live in wet or dry places?
Write a down a word from the reading that tells you this.
moist
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c The python is a carnivore. What is a carnivore?
A carnivore is an animal that eats only other animals.
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d Name another example of a carnivore.
Any suitable answer, e. g. lion, tiger, shark, owl.
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e What colours are most pythons?
Green and brown
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f How do a python’s colours help it to catch prey?
Explain in your own words.
The prey cannot see the python because it blends in with its surroundings.
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g Describe another way that the python’s body helps it to get its food.
It uses its muscles to coil around the prey and squeeze it.
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