Producers, Predators and Prey Matching

Year 4 ScienceAnimals Including Humans3 pages

About this worksheet

A matching sheet for Year 4 science on food chain words. In the first set, pupils match producer, prey, predator, consumer, herbivore and carnivore to definitions, with producer done for them. The second set is a garden food chain: a rose bush, greenfly, a ladybird, a blue tit, a sparrowhawk and an earthworm. A last question asks why a blue tit or a ladybird can be predator and prey at once. The answer key gives both sets of letters and a model answer. It links to the England National Curriculum objective on producers, predators and prey.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Animals, including humans

โ€œConstruct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey.โ€

Partly met. Set 2 gives a garden chain from rose bush to sparrowhawk, and Beyond matching interprets it. Pupils do not draw a chain themselves.

What's inside this worksheet

Producers, Predators and Prey

Six terms and six definitions, A to F. Producer is already matched to C.

Match each garden organism to its feeding role

Pupils match a rose bush, greenfly, ladybird, blue tit, sparrowhawk and earthworm to clues. The ladybird eats aphids and is eaten by blue tits.

Beyond matching

Pupils explain why a blue tit or a ladybird is both a predator and prey.

How teachers use it

Draw the chain

After Set 2, ask pupils to draw the chain with arrows from the rose bush to the sparrowhawk.

Where is the earthworm

Ask where the earthworm fits. It is a consumer but not in the main chain, so it starts a good talk about decomposers.

Vocabulary quiz

Use Set 1 as a five-minute quiz before your first food chains lesson.

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