An animal is a living thing which moves and eats other animals or plants.

A living thing's basic needs are what they need to be able to survive.

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

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

Simple food chains

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

What are the basic needs that animals need to survive?

Which of the following would a herbivore eat to survive?

A food chain is used to show the order in which living things {{}} on each other for food.

The caterpillar is food for the blackbird.

The blackbird is food for the caterpillar.

Which of the following are true about the food chain below?

What would a scientist use to research what animals eat?

A herbivore is an animal that eats plants.

An animal that only eats meat from other animals.

An animal that eats plants and other animals.

Carnivores eat {{}}, which is the flesh of other animals.

Which of these animals can be classified as a carnivore?

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

Simple food chains

Lesson outcome

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