Simple Food Chains Cloze

Year 2 ScienceLiving Things and Their Habitats3 pages

About this worksheet

A cloze passage on food chains for Year 2 science. Pupils fill eleven gaps from a bank of twelve words, so one word (water) is left over. The passage starts with plants using light from the Sun, then follows an English woodland chain: oak leaves, a caterpillar, a bird and a red fox. It also defines predator and prey. Food Chain Check asks pupils to fill the two empty boxes in the chain. The answer key lists every gap. It follows the England National Curriculum Year 2 objectives on habitats and food chains.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Living things and their habitats

โ€œDescribe how animals obtain their food from plants and other animals, using the idea of a simple food chain, and identify and name different sources of food.โ€

Gaps 2 to 10 and the Food Chain Check build the chain and the words predator and prey.

Living things and their habitats

โ€œIdentify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each otherโ€

Partly met. Gap 11 says plants and animals rely on each other, but the sheet looks at one woodland habitat only.

What's inside this worksheet

How Living Things Get Their Food

A word bank of twelve, including predator, prey, energy and caterpillar, and a passage with eleven numbered gaps. A picture shows oak leaves, a caterpillar, a blue tit and a fox.

Food Chain Check

A four-box chain with Oak Leaves and Blue Tit Bird given. Pupils write in the plant eater and the top predator.

How teachers use it

Act it out

Give four pupils cards for oak leaves, caterpillar, blue tit and fox and line them up in order.

The spare word

Ask pupils which word they did not need and why water has no place in this food chain.

Draw the arrows

The last sentence says the arrows show where energy travels. Have pupils add arrows to their Food Chain Check.

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