Science 4 · Unit 2: Energy · Cambridge Primary Science Stage 4
2.4 Energy and living things
20 questions · e.g. Put the food chain in order
Questions
1. The food chain is not correct: snail, cabbage, duck. What is the right order?
Check2. The food chain is not correct: bird, caterpillar, leaf. What is the right order?
- caterpillar → leaf → bird
- leaf → caterpillar → bird
- leaf → bird → caterpillar
- bird → caterpillar → leaf
3. The food chain is not correct: lizard, corn, cat, locust. What is the right order?
- locust → corn → lizard → cat
- corn → lizard → locust → cat
- corn → locust → lizard → cat
- cat → lizard → locust → corn
4. The food chain is not correct: melon, eagle, snake, mouse. What is the right order?
- melon → snake → mouse → eagle
- eagle → snake → mouse → melon
- melon → mouse → snake → eagle
- mouse → melon → snake → eagle
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5. Look at the pictures of a rabbit, a plant, an eagle and a rat. Which living thing is a producer?
Check6. What do we call consumers that eat only plants?
Check7. Match each word to what it means.
Check- producer
- herbivore
- carnivore
- omnivore
- a living thing that makes its own food
- an animal that eats only plants
- an animal that eats other animals
- an animal that eats plants and animals
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8. Name the two consumers that eat plants.
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9. Which animal is a predator?
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10. Which animals are prey for the eagle?
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11. Which animal could be an omnivore? Say why.
- the plant, because it makes its own food
- the eagle, because it eats only animals
- the rat, because rats eat plants and also small animals
- the rabbit, because it eats only plants
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12. Which food chain has just a producer and a consumer from the picture?
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13. Which food chain has a producer, a prey animal and a predator from the picture?
Check14. In the food chain grass → deer → tiger, why is the grass at the start?
- It is the producer, so the energy in the food chain starts with it.
- It is the last thing to be eaten.
- It is the biggest living thing.
- It eats the deer.
15. In the food chain grass → deer → tiger, how does the grass get its food?
- It makes its own food, using light energy from the Sun.
- It eats the deer.
- It takes food from the tiger.
- It does not need food.
16. What do the arrows in a food chain show?
- the direction the energy in the food moves
- which animal is the biggest
- which animal is the fastest
- the way the animals walk
17. True or false: A food chain can start with an animal.
Check18. In the food chain grass → deer → tiger, will the living things always be in the same order?
- No, because tigers sometimes eat grass.
- Yes, because tigers are the biggest.
- No, because grass can eat deer.
- Yes, because deer eat grass and tigers eat deer, not the other way round.
- a living thing that makes its own food
- an animal that eats only animals
- an animal that eats only plants
- an animal that eats both plants and animals
- Check