Plants are called producers because they make their own food using sunlight, air, nutrients and water.

Animals are called consumers. This is because they cannot make their own food, so they need to consume (eat) plants and/or animals.

A food chain shows how each living thing gets food, and how nutrients and energy are passed from creature to creature. Food chains begin with plant-life, and end with animal-life. Some animals eat plants, some animals eat other animals.

A predator is an organism that eats another organism. The prey is the organism which the predator eats. Some examples of predator and prey are lion and zebra, bear and fish, and fox and rabbit.

1. Draw a food chain

2. What is a food chain, underline the correct answers:

A line of animals and plants. It shows different kind of plants and food and animals.

It shows how each living things gets food. It shows how nutrients and energy are passed from creature to creature.

3. Why plants are called producers? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Why animals are called consumers? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. What do animals need to live? ________________ _________________ _________________

6. What do plants need to live? ________________ _________________ _________________

7. Draw the life cycle of a sea turtle, write the name of each one.

8. Draw the life cycle of an insect, write the name of each one.

9. Do all baby animals look like their parents? ______ Why? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

10. Animals that look alike Aninmlas that the offspring is diffent from the parent