Grade 4 · Science

Read a food chain

LET’S TRY ONE

In grass → rabbit → fox, what eats the grass?

rabbit

The arrow from grass to rabbit shows grass is eaten by the rabbit.

Your turn!
Learning steps & teaching tips

Interpret a stated food chain with arrows showing energy moving from food to eater.

  1. Read each arrow as 'is eaten by' and use the chain given, rather than inventing other feeding links.
  2. Work through the example. Explain how its evidence supports the answer.
  3. Try a new question; use the explanation to check your thinking.

Try it together

Make one new example with a partner. Identify the evidence for your answer before checking it together.

Read each arrow as 'is eaten by' and use the chain given, rather than inventing other feeding links.