Balance in Nature Worksheet
Explore the balance in nature with this Grade 4 science worksheet covering food webs, ecosystems, and environmental impacts.
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Use complete sentences for short answer questions.
1. What is a food chain?
A group of animals living together
How energy is passed from one living thing to another
A type of animal habitat
The way plants make food
2. Which of these is a producer?
Lion
Deer
Grass
Wolf
3. A shows how different food chains are connected in an ecosystem.
4. Animals that eat only plants are called .
5. An ecosystem is a community of living things interacting with their .
6. Look at the food web below. If the population of rabbits suddenly decreased, what might happen to the population of foxes? Explain your answer.

7. How do humans impact the balance in nature? Give one example.
8. All living things in an ecosystem depend on each other.
True
False
9. Decomposers break down dead plants and animals and return nutrients to the soil.
True
False
10. Observe the pond ecosystem diagram. Name two living things and two non-living things you see.

Living things: ,
Non-living things: ,