A plant is a living thing that often has roots, a stem and leaves.

To absorb is to be able to soak up or take in.

Photosynthesis is the way in which plants make food.

A food chain shows how living things depend on each other for food.

A producer in a food chain makes its own food.

Producers in a food chain

Science

In this More about food chains unit, pupils learn to identify producers, predator and prey in a food chain. In the Why we group and classify living things unit, they will build on this knowledge to learn that living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences

In the Introduction to food chains unit, pupils learnt to use the idea of a simple food chain to identify and name different sources of food. In this More about food chains unit, pupils will build on this knowledge to construct and interpret a variety of food chains

More about food chains

Plants can move around and hunt for food.

Plants make their own food, so they are called the {{}} in a food chain.

Which of the following are producers in a food chain?

What do plants do during the process called photosynthesis?

Where would you put a plant in a food chain?

Which of these do plants need to make food?

Which of these are basic needs of animals?

A chain of events which explains what time of day different animals eat food.

The order in which living things depend on each other for food.

What information can be presented in a food chain?

Herbivores only eat plants, carnivores eat both plants and animals.

Herbivores eat any food, carnivores only eat meat.

Herbivores only eat plants, carnivores eat other animals.

How are herbivores and carnivores different from one another?

What do the arrows in a food chain represent?

Herbivores depend on {{}} to stay alive or survive.

A plant needs to hunt other plants for food in order to survive.

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.

Producers in a food chain

Lesson outcome

This lesson will be removed by end of Summer Term 2025.