Producers and Consumers in Nature
A Grade 1 science worksheet to help students understand the roles of producers and consumers in an ecosystem.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet is about producers and consumers in nature.
What are Producers and Consumers?
In nature, living things need food to live and grow. Some living things make their own food, and some living things eat other living things for food. A **producer** is a living thing that makes its own food, usually from sunlight. Plants are producers! A **consumer** is a living thing that eats other living things for food. Animals are consumers!
1. Which of these is a producer?
A lion
A tree
A bird
A fish
2. Which of these is a consumer?
A flower
Grass
A rabbit
A bush
1. Plants are called because they make their own food.
2. Animals are called because they eat other living things.
3. A cow eats grass, so a cow is a .
1. All animals are producers.
True
False
2. Sunlight helps plants make their food.
True
False
1. Name one producer you can find in your garden.
2. Name one consumer you can find in your garden.
Use the words below to complete the sentences.
1. make their own food.
2. A rabbit is a because it eats plants.
3. A sunflower is a .
4. eat other living things for food.