KS1 Living Things | Food Chains and Sources

Science Quiz - Living Things - Food Sources (Questions)

This quiz addresses the requirements of the National Curriculum KS1 Science for children aged 5 and 6 in years 1 and 2. Specifically this quiz is aimed at the section dealing with living things and food sources.

What do living things eat? Plants make their own food. Where does our food come from? Where our food comes from is called its source. What about other animals? What is the source of their food? All animals eat other living things. Most eat plants but some animals eat other animals for their food. But where did the food come from originally? How energy passes from a plant to an animal and then to a predator is called a food chain. This quiz is all about food chains and what animals eat.

What do rabbits eat?

[ ]	Grass
[ ]	Spiders
[ ]	Snails
[ ]	Frogs

What do foxes eat?

[ ]	Rabbits
[ ]	Grass
[ ]	Spiders
[ ]	Snails

Maize is a plant. It produces corn. What do we make from corn?

[ ]	Potato crisps
[ ]	Cornflakes
[ ]	Chips
[ ]	Bacon

This is a field of oats. What do we make from oats?

[ ]	Potato crisps
[ ]	Porridge
[ ]	Cornflakes
[ ]	Chips

This is a picture of a field of wheat. The farmer is harvesting the wheat. What do we make from wheat?

[ ]	Potato crisps
[ ]	Chips
[ ]	Sweets
[ ]	Flour

What do we use flour to make?

[ ]	Potato crisps
[ ]	Chips
[ ]	Bread
[ ]	Sweets

Where does beef come from?

[ ]	Chickens
[ ]	Pigs
[ ]	Sheep
[ ]	Cows

A lot of people like to eat beef. Here is how beef is made and gets to us. There is a word missing. What is the missing word?

Sun → Grass → ? → Beef → Us

[ ]	Trees
[ ]	Lions
[ ]	Fish
[ ]	Cows

A lot of people like to eat eggs. Here is how eggs are made and get to us. There is a word missing. What is the missing word?

Sun → Corn → ? → Eggs → Us

[ ]	Cows
[ ]	Chickens
[ ]	Fish
[ ]	Sheep

10.

Where does milk come from? There is a word missing. What is the missing word?

Sun → ? → Cows → Milk → Us

[ ]	Chickens
[ ]	Trees
[ ]	Sheep
[ ]	Grass

Science Quiz - Living Things - Food Sources (Answers)

What do rabbits eat?

[x]	Grass
[ ]	Spiders
[ ]	Snails
[ ]	Frogs

Rabbits eat grass and other plants

What do foxes eat?

[x]	Rabbits
[ ]	Grass
[ ]	Spiders
[ ]	Snails

Foxes are meat eaters. They eat rabbits. The rabbits have eaten the grass

Maize is a plant. It produces corn. What do we make from corn?

[ ]	Potato crisps
[x]	Cornflakes
[ ]	Chips
[ ]	Bacon

To make cornflakes, corn is rolled flat and baked. Do you like cornflakes?

This is a field of oats. What do we make from oats?

[ ]	Potato crisps
[x]	Porridge
[ ]	Cornflakes
[ ]	Chips

Porridge is good for you. Do you like porridge?

This is a picture of a field of wheat. The farmer is harvesting the wheat. What do we make from wheat?

[ ]	Potato crisps
[ ]	Chips
[ ]	Sweets
[x]	Flour

The wheat is crushed to make flour

What do we use flour to make?

[ ]	Potato crisps
[ ]	Chips
[x]	Bread
[ ]	Sweets

Bread is made from flour. Then it is baked. Have you made bread?

Where does beef come from?

[ ]	Chickens
[ ]	Pigs
[ ]	Sheep
[x]	Cows

Pork comes from pigs, lamb comes from sheep and beef comes from cows

A lot of people like to eat beef. Here is how beef is made and gets to us. There is a word missing. What is the missing word?

Sun → Grass → ? → Beef → Us

[ ]	Trees
[ ]	Lions
[ ]	Fish
[x]	Cows

This is called a food chain

A lot of people like to eat eggs. Here is how eggs are made and get to us. There is a word missing. What is the missing word?

Sun → Corn → ? → Eggs → Us

[ ]	Cows
[x]	Chickens
[ ]	Fish
[ ]	Sheep

Chickens lay eggs. They eat corn

10.

Where does milk come from? There is a word missing. What is the missing word?

Sun → ? → Cows → Milk → Us

[ ]	Chickens
[ ]	Trees
[ ]	Sheep
[x]	Grass

Milk comes from cows. The cows eat grass. The grass needs the sun to grow