By Ami Rivera
10 questions
4th - 8th Grade
Science
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Updated Apr 2025
Food Chain vs Food Web is a science worksheet for students in Grades 4–8 that builds understanding of how organisms obtain and transfer energy. Students distinguish food chains from food webs, identify predators, prey, and producers, recognize an omnivore in a pictured ecosystem, and interpret predator–prey population changes. They also analyze energy flow through a sequence and identify the organisms that provide energy to a shark. The worksheet contains 10 questions: 9 multiple-choice items and 1 multiple-select item. Several questions use a food-web picture, requiring students to apply vocabulary and relationships to a visual model rather than recall definitions alone. This free printable worksheet includes a complete answer key, making it useful for science practice, review, or an accessible check of understanding across upper elementary and middle school grades.
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WorksheetsAnswer Keyfood web
predator
prey
food chain
grass-mouse-snake-eagle
decrease
food web
one-celled life
small fish
tuna
, b)mackeral
This Grade 4–8 science worksheet uses 9 multiple-choice questions and 1 multiple-select question to assess food chains, food webs, predators, prey, producers, and omnivores. Students sequence organisms to show energy flow, interpret a pictured food web, predict how a growing predator population affects prey, and identify the energy sources for a shark.
Introduce the vocabulary by modeling a single food chain and then show how several connected chains form a food web. Before students complete the picture-based questions, have them trace arrows or feeding relationships and explain which organism provides energy to the next. Use the sequence and predator–prey questions to discuss why energy flow and population changes are related.
Students may reverse predator and prey, select food chain when several connected chains are shown, or place organisms in the wrong order when tracing energy flow from grass to mouse to snake to eagle. In the pictured food web, they may misidentify the one-celled life as a producer or the small fish as an omnivore. For the multiple-select item, remind students to choose both tuna and mackeral as shark energy sources, not ocean water.
Wayground provides this worksheet as a printable PDF and as a digital quiz, with a complete answer key for all 10 items. Grade digital responses in Wayground, or scan printable student work with the Wayground for Teachers app to speed up grading. The printable format also supports classrooms that are reducing screen time.
Use the worksheet’s Advanced Settings to adjust font spacing and font size so the vocabulary and food-web choices are easier to read. You can also enable a dyslexia-friendly font or translate the worksheet into another language, helping students access the definitions, sequence question, and pictured ecosystem items.
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