In nature, nothing eats alone. Every food chain is tangled up with others to make a food web, and a change to one living thing ripples through all the rest. In Web Woods, Year 6 scientists trace where the energy goes.
What your child will learn
- Name producers, consumers, predators, prey and decomposers
- Know that the arrows in a food chain show the direction energy travels
- Link food chains together to make a food web
- Predict what happens when one living thing increases or disappears
It starts with the Sun
Green plants are producers: they make their own food using sunlight. Animals are consumers: they get energy by eating plants or other animals. The arrow in “grass → rabbit → fox” means “is eaten by” — it shows where the energy goes.
Everything is connected
If the rabbits in that web disappeared, the foxes would have less to eat and the grass would grow unchecked. Decomposers — fungi and bacteria — finish the loop by breaking down dead plants and animals so their nutrients return to the soil.
Example questions
Here are a few questions like the ones in the first quest. Can you solve them?
1. What is a consumer?
- A plant that makes food
- The Sun
- A kind of rock
- A living thing that eats other living things
Show answer
Answer: A living thing that eats other living things. Animals are consumers.
2. An animal that eats both plants and animals is an…
- insect
- carnivore
- herbivore
- omnivore
Show answer
Answer: omnivore. Bears and many birds are omnivores.
3. True or false? A food chain always begins with a producer.
Show answer
Answer: True. Producers bring the Sun’s energy into the chain.
Tips for grown-ups
- Draw a food web for a garden, pond or park you know.
- Pick one living thing in the web and ask: “What if it vanished?”
- Turn over a rotting log to see decomposers at work — then put it back.