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Science Study Guide Unit 2:
Digestion, Nutrients, Food Chains and Food Webs
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Directions: Match the word on the left to the correct meaning on the right. Mark your
answer on the line to the left of each word.
______ Carnivore
A. living things that make food
______ Secondary Consumer
B. a plant eater
______ food chain
C. a complex of interconnected food chains
______ producer
D. an animal that hunts another animal
______ Primary Consumer
E. a meat eater
______ Herbivore
F. an animal that eats producers
______ food web
G. an animal that is hunted by another animal
______ Predator
H. the order of living things that are eaten and eat another
______ Prey
I. an animal that eats meat and plants
______ Omnivore
J. an animal that eats the consumers of producers
Directions: Fill in the blank spaces in the paragraph with the correct answer. Use the words
from the WORD BANK to help you find the correct answer.
WORD BANK
energy
food chain
omnivores
carnivores
herbivores
food
producers
sun
primary consumers
______________________ is needed by all living things for ________________ .
All food starts from the ________________________. Green plants make their own food
and are called ___________________________. A __________________________ is
the process of passing food from one living thing to another.
___________________ ____________________ are living things that depend only on
green plants for food. These living things are also called ___________________________.
Meat – eating animals are called ___________________________. Give 2 examples of
these types of animals: _________________________ and _____________________.
Animals that eat both green plants and animals are called __________________________.
Each member of a food chain _________________________ on the member below for its
energy.
Vocabulary Terms To Know
Food Chains: the order of living things that are eaten and eat another
Food Web:
a complex of interconnected food chains
Predator: an animal that hunts another animal
Prey: an animal that is hunted by another animal
Producer: living things that make food
Primary Consumer: an animal that eats producers
Secondary Consumer: an animal that eats the consumer of producers
Herbivore: a plant eater
Carnivore: a meat eater
Omnivore: an animal that eats meat and plants
DIRECTIONS: Below this box, draw a food chain for the owl.