Food Chain, Food Web, and Energy Pyramid Worksheets

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With our printable worksheets on food chains, food webs, and energy pyramids, children explore the interlinked web of organisms in an ecosystem, each dependent on the other for sustenance. Begin with producers, then progress through primary and secondary consumers, apex predators, and finally, decomposers. Learn about the energy pyramid and various trophic levels along the way.

Our free food chain, food web, and energy pyramid worksheets are ideal for grade 3 through grade 8 learners.

Sequencing Organisms in Food Chain

Look on as life thrives in the natural world. Reorganize and label the organisms in the correct order to reflect the food chains in grasslands, forests, oceans, and the Arctic tundra.

Sequencing Organisms in Food Chain

Matching Food-Chain Components to Functions

While producers make their own food, consumers feed on producers or other consumers. Help grade 3 and grade 4 children remember this basic tenet as they complete this pdf.

Matching Food-Chain Components to Functions

Energy Pyramid Chart

Revel science enthusiasts with our ecological pyramid chart depicting the flow of energy between trophic levels. Producers form the base, while apex predators occupy the top.

Energy Pyramid Chart

Identifying Direction of Energy Flow

Discover how energy journeys across the ecosystem by drawing arrows pointing in the right direction and naming organisms in this part of our printable food chain worksheets.

Identifying Direction of Energy Flow

Answering Questions Based on Food Chain

Here's yet another exercise to excite the budding scientists in 3rd grade and 4th grade. Direct them to look at the food chain and take on questions about eating habits and energy flow.

Answering Questions Based on Food Chain

Matching Organisms to Roles

Reemphasize the differences between various tiers of consumers to crack this worksheet. Figure out if each organism is a producer, consumer, or decomposer, and match correctly.

Matching Organisms to Roles

Answering Questions Based on Invasive Species Table

Instruct grade 5 and grade 6 students to observe the table and absorb the information about invasive species, so they can be properly equipped to tackle the questions that follow.

Answering Questions Based on Invasive Species Table

Predicting Effects of Invasive Species

The red-eared slider turtle arrives like an uninvited guest to disrupt the tranquility of this ecosystem. Analyze the ill effects of the invasion and answer the given set of questions.

Predicting Effects of Invasive Species

Marine Food Web | Picture Comprehension

Transition from a chain of interlinked organisms to a network that branches in different directions. Get an overview of marine food webs in this pdf for 5th grade and 6th grade.

Marine Food Web - Picture Comprehension

Arctic Food Web | Picture Comprehension

Next up in our food web worksheets, learners voyage to the freezing white canvas of the Arctic tundra. The task in this food web worksheet is to complete a table about trophic levels and food sources.

Arctic Food Web - Picture Comprehension

Energy Pyramid | True or False

Revisit energy pyramids and transcend ecological boundaries by viewing organisms situated firmly in their trophic levels, before moving on to discern the veracity of the statements.

Energy Pyramid - True or False

Sequencing Food Chain | Cut and Glue

Producer, prey, and predator are some of the terms learners must remember in this segment. Cut the picture cards and glue them in the correct order within the food chains.

Sequencing Food Chain - Cut and Glue

Drawing Arrows in Marine Food Web

Reach for depths unimagined while diving into the azure expanse of the marine ecosystem. Piece together a comprehensive food web, picking up hints from the given food chains.

Drawing Arrows in Marine Food Web

Energy Flow in the Ecosystem | Comprehension

The intricacies of energy flow take up all the room here. Instruct grade 7 and grade 8 students to analyze producer-consumer relationships in the context of this energy pyramid worksheet.

Energy Flow in the Ecosystem - Comprehension

Food Chain | Questions on Roles

Kick off with grass, an autotroph, then welcome aboard heterotrophs like locusts, lizards, and snakes, before concluding with mushrooms, effective decomposers, in this exercise.

Food Chain - Questions on Roles

Food Web | Picture Comprehension

Much to the delight of 7th grade and 8th grade learners, the food web fun is still not over. Observe the web depicted in this sheet and identify the interdependent roles at play.

Food Web - Picture Comprehension

Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers

The health of an ecosystem hinges on organisms taking on the roles of producers, consumers, and decomposers. Delve deep into such fundamentals with these worksheets.

Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers

Herbivores, Carnivores, and Omnivores

The dietary preferences and nutritional necessities of the animal world is the sole focus of these printable worksheets. Say hello to herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores here.

Herbivores, Carnivores, and Omnivores