A basic food chain worksheet for your students to complete.
Students select an animal to construct a simple food chain. They must research to find out their chosen animal’s predator and prey.
A basic introduction to animal food chains.
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Basic Food Chain Worksheet
Updated: 21 Jun 2023
A basic food chain worksheet for your students to complete.
Non-Editable: PDF
Pages: 1 Page
Year: 4
Curriculum
AC9S4U01
Explain the roles and interactions of consumers, producers and decomposers within a habitat and how food chains represent feeding relationships
VC2S4U03
Consumers, producers and decomposers have different roles and interactions within a habitat; food chains can be used to represent feeding relationships <ul> <li>describing how animals, including humans, obtain their food from plants and other animals</li> <li>observing living things in a local habitat and categorising them as producers, consumers or decomposers</li> <li>researching the different types of decomposers and the importance of these within a habitat</li> <li>representing feeding relationships of producers and consumers as a food chain and comparing food chains across different habitats</li> <li>investigating the impact of introduced predators such as foxes on small mammal species in Australia</li> <li>researching how the removal of a food source from within a habitat, such as through an insect or rodent infestation, affects other living things within that habitat</li> </ul> <!--a=1-->
Curriculum
AC9S4U01
Explain the roles and interactions of consumers, producers and decomposers within a habitat and how food chains represent feeding relationships
VC2S4U03
Consumers, producers and decomposers have different roles and interactions within a habitat; food chains can be used to represent feeding relationships <ul> <li>describing how animals, including humans, obtain their food from plants and other animals</li> <li>observing living things in a local habitat and categorising them as producers, consumers or decomposers</li> <li>researching the different types of decomposers and the importance of these within a habitat</li> <li>representing feeding relationships of producers and consumers as a food chain and comparing food chains across different habitats</li> <li>investigating the impact of introduced predators such as foxes on small mammal species in Australia</li> <li>researching how the removal of a food source from within a habitat, such as through an insect or rodent infestation, affects other living things within that habitat</li> </ul> <!--a=1-->
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