Transcript Twenty Questions

Today we are going to learn
about:
Food Chains
KEY WORDS
food chain
consumer
predator
producer
prey
Task 1 – Sorting living things
Consumer or producer?
What do you think?
Producers are plants they make their own food
Consumers are animals they eat food
Task 2 – Making food chains
eaten by
direction of energy flow
What eats what?
Task 3 – Making food chains
• Design your own food chain – use the
things in your tray or make up your own
• Draw or write it on paper
• Describe it to a friend
CHECK
Does it start with a producer?
Are the arrows going in the right direction?
Challenge
Use these words to label your food chain:
eaten by
consumer
predator
producer
prey
Food chains
A food chain shows where the energy goes in a
food chain (in other words, “what gets eaten by what”):
eaten by
Cabbage
eaten by
Rabbit
Plants convert the
sun’s energy into food
eaten by
Stoat
Fox
The arrows indicate where
the energy is going
Ten Questions
Subject: Food Chains
Ten Questions
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1. Give an example of a consumer
that makes honey?
• A bee
2. What must a food chain always
begin with?
• A plant
• A producer
Cabbage
Cactus
3. Name a producer eaten by
rabbits.
• Cabbage, carrot or grass.
eaten by
Cabbage
4. Are penguins the prey of polar
bears?
• No because penguins live in the Antarctic
and polar bears live in the Arctic.
5. Are hedgehogs producers or
consumers?
• They are CONSUMERS because they eat
(consume) food (slugs and worms).
6. Write down a food chain
involving the animal below.
• Seaweed
wrasse
sea otter
polar bear
7. What do the arrows in a food
chain show?
eaten by
What eats what.
direction of energy flow
8. Name a predator and its
prey.
9. Name a consumer.
• Any animal
10. Name a producer
• Any plant.
Congratulations!
• You can make food chains which start with a
producer and end with a consumer
• You know the difference between prey and
predator
• You can put the arrows in the right direction and
you know what they mean