Grade 4 Science

Grade 4 Habitats & Food Webs

Printable Grade 4 Habitats & Food Webs — a 5-page Grade 4 Science practice set with 10 problems and an answer key, ready to print from your browser.

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Grade 4 Habitats & Food Webs

Grade 4 Science

Label-the-web diagrams plus short-answer questions about producers, consumers, and decomposers. Tied to the Grade 4 habitats and food webs strand.

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Grade 4 Habitats & Food Webs

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Habitats

1.

In your own words, what is a habitat?

2.

Name three things every animal habitat must have.

3.

Name one plant and one animal that live in a forest habitat.

4.

Why is clean water important to a wetland habitat?

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Food web basics

5.

What is a producer? Give an example.

6.

What is a consumer? Give an example.

7.

What is a decomposer? Name two decomposers.

8.

In a meadow food web, what animal eats the grass? What animal eats the grass-eater?

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Build a food web

9.

Draw a simple food web with sun → grass → rabbit → fox. Label each arrow “energy.”

10.

If all the foxes left the meadow, what might happen to the rabbit population? Why?

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Answer Key

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For teacher or parent use only. Answers are listed in problem order.

1. A habitat is the natural place where an animal or plant lives.
2. Food, water, and shelter.
3. Sample: tree (plant) + squirrel (animal).
4. Animals need water to drink and plants need water to grow.
5. A producer makes its own food using sunlight; grass is a producer.
6. A consumer eats other living things; a rabbit is a consumer.
7. A decomposer breaks down dead plants and animals; mushrooms and earthworms.
8. A rabbit eats the grass; a fox eats the rabbit.
9. (open-response drawing)
10. The rabbit population would likely grow because nothing is hunting them — until the grass runs out.
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