Study Guides

Unit Summary

This unit involves constructing and interpreting food chains and identifying producers, predators, and prey. It focuses on asking questions, gathering and presenting data, recording findings with diagrams and charts, and using scientific evidence to answer questions and support findings.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to describe different ways to protect plants and animals to prevent threats to food chains.

Key Notes

• A change to one living thing can affect other living things in the same food chain.
• Humans should be encouraged to behave in ways that help to protect plants and animals in their habitats.
• Information about protecting food chains can be researched using secondary sources of information.

Vocabulary To Learn

• habitat: The place where a plant or animal lives is called its habitat.
• threat: A threat is the possibility that something unwanted or dangerous will happen.
• impact: The impact of something is the effect it has.
• protect: To protect something is to keep it safe from harm.
• secondary sources: Secondary sources are texts, images or objects created using information gathered by others.

Common Mistakes To Avoid

• Some pupils may think that human actions can have an impact on animals and plants but that these actions do not affect food chains.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

More Lessons In This Unit

• Changes in food chains (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
• Comparing different food chains Study Guide
• Consumers in a food chain Study Guide
• Creating food chains Study Guide
• Dangers to food chains (non-statutory Climate Change & Sustainability) Study Guide
• Predators and prey in a food chain Study Guide
• Presenting food chains Study Guide
• Producers in a food chain Study Guide
• Simple food chains Study Guide