P - Science - 6 - Worksheets - Unit 4

CAMBRIDGE PRIMARY SCIENCE 6 UNIT 4: FOOD CHAINS AND FOOD WEBS
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Worksheet 4.2
Make a food web
You will need: a ball of string, sticky putty or safety pins, a Sun card, plant and
animal cards, scissors
Work in groups of 10–15. Your teacher will give your group a set of cards to stick or
pin onto your shirt or dress.
Steps
1 The learner who is the Sun must hold the ball of string.
2 The Sun should hold onto the free end of the string and pass the ball to a
producer.
3 The producer holds onto the string and passes the ball to a herbivore.
4 The herbivore holds onto the string and passes the ball to an animal that eats
the herbivore.
5 Continue passing the ball of string until you have made a food chain.
Cut the string and pass the ball back to the Sun.
6 Repeat steps 2–5 until everyone in your group is holding onto the string and
you have made a food web.
7 a Now imagine that a pesticide kills the insects in the food chains. The insects
and all the
animals connected to the insects must let go of the string and leave their
food chains.
b Other learners in the web must all pull gently on the string. What happens to
the web?
Questions
1 Which person was a part of every food chain? Why?
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2 a Were you part of one food chain or many food chains?
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b Write down the different food chains you were part of.
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3 a What does the ball of string represent?
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b What does passing the ball of string to another person represent?
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4 Write three things that the game shows about food webs.
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Help sheet
This information will help you to connect to the right living things in the game:
 The energy for all food chains and food webs comes from the Sun.
 Green plants are producers that use the Sun’s energy to make food.
 The rabbit, snail, locust, caterpillar and beetle are herbivores.
 The snake, cat, eagle, frog and fox are carnivores.
 The rat and thrush are omnivores.
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Stretch questions
5 Explain what happened to the food web when the insects were killed and why.
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6 Imagine that a toxic substance that is harmful to insects, but does not kill
them, enters
the food web. Suggest a way you can show in the game how this substance
moves
through the food chains.
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Worksheet 4.2
Make a food web
Food web cards:

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CAMBRIDGE PRIMARY SCIENCE 6 UNIT 4: FOOD CHAINS AND FOOD WEBS

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pin onto your shirt or dress.

2 a Were you part of one food chain or many food chains?

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