Food Webs Check

5th Grade ScienceFood Webs3 pages

About this worksheet

This 3-page 5th grade science check uses one small food web with seeds, mouse, sparrow, snake and owl. On page 1 students classify the five organisms from a word bank that runs from producer to tertiary consumer. Page 2 has five multiple-choice questions with three options each, on what arrows show, which organisms compete, which one eats both primary and secondary consumers, what follows if the seeds are wiped out and where the seeds' energy comes from. Page 3 is the answer key. It ties to NGSS 5-LS2-1 and 5-PS3-1.

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Curriculum objectives covered

5-LS2-1

“Develop a model to describe the movement of matter among plants, animals, decomposers, and the environment.”

Students read the web on page 1 and use it to classify five organisms and to answer questions 7 to 9.

5-PS3-1

“Use models to describe that energy in animals' food (used for body repair, growth, motion, and to maintain body warmth) was once energy from the sun.”

Questions 6 and 10 ask what the arrows show and where the seeds' energy comes from.

What's inside this worksheet

Classify the Organisms

A diagram shows arrows from the seeds to the mouse and the sparrow, from both of them to the owl, and from the mouse to the snake and the snake to the owl. A word bank sits below it. Students write a role next to each of the five organisms in a table.

Multiple Choice

Questions 6 to 10 each have options A to C. They cover what the arrows show, which two organisms compete for the same food, which organism eats both primary and secondary consumers, what happens first if a disease wipes out the seeds, and where the seeds' energy comes from.

Answers

The completed table (seeds producer, mouse and sparrow primary consumers, snake secondary consumer, owl tertiary consumer) and the letter answers for questions 6 to 10.

How teachers use it

End of the unit

Hand it out after the food web lessons. The table on page 1 shows in a couple of minutes who can name a role from a diagram.

Trace the owl

Question 8 catches students who only follow the mouse. Have them trace every arrow that ends at the owl and write whether each one comes from a primary or a secondary consumer.

Seeds disappear

Before students answer question 9, ask them to say who is hit first and who is hit a step later. The same chain also works with the owl removed.

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