Chapter 4: Habitats, change and food chains

By the end of this chapter you will be able to

• Give examples of natural and human changes to a habitat
• Explain how a change in the environment can be a danger to living things, using a pond survey
• Read a food chain, and say which living thing is the producer, the prey and the predator
• Draw a food chain with arrows that point from the food to the eater
• Explain that a food chain starts with a plant, because plants make their own food
• Predict what would happen in a food chain if one living thing were removed

You should already know

• Habitats, and how living things depend on each other (Year 2 Science, Chapter 3)
• Animals need food to live, and they cannot make their own food (Year 3 Science, Chapter 5)

Where this leads

• Classification keys, to name the living things in a habitat (Year 4 Science, Chapter 3)
• Food chains in more detail, and the food webs of a habitat (Year 5 and Year 6 Science)