Worksheet: What do animals eat ?

CARNIVORES

A carnivore is an animal that gets food from killing and eating other animals. Since carnivores have to hunt down and kill other animals they require a large amount of calories. This means that they have to eat many other animals over the course of the year. The bigger the carnivore, the more it has to eat.

Tiger eats meat

Snake eats frog

Crocodile eats fish

Eagle eat meat

Spider eats insect

Lion eats meat

OMNIVORES

An omnivore is a kind of animal that eats both plants and  other animals. Omnivores eat plants, but not all kinds of plants. Omnivores can also eat fruits and vegetables.

Bear eats berries and fish

Bird eats worms and plants

Dog eats meat and rice



Duck eats fish and plants

HERBIVORES

A herbivore is an animal that gets its energy from eating plants, and only plants. Many herbivores have special digestive systems that let them digest all kinds of plants, including grasses. Herbivores need a lot of energy to stay alive. Many of them, like cows and sheep, eat all day long.

Cow eats grass

Girraffes eat leaves

Parrot eats fruits

Rabbits eat carrots

Our Solar System

The Sun and the nine planets are part of the Solar System. The nine planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. The Sun is in the centre of the Solar System. all the nine planets move around the Sun in a large oval path. The planets also spin by itself.

Do you know? Planet Pluto moves around the Sun on a different plane. Its path is different from other planets. 

A Complete Change

Many young animals do not look like their parents. They undergo changes before they look like their parents. Can you name the animals? 

Stages in the life cycle of a butterfly

A caterpillar hatches from an egg.

eggs -- caterpillar -- pupa -- butterfly

Stages in the life cycle of a frog

eggs -- tadpoles -- they grow bigger become frog

Animals have different life cycles. Some young animals look like their parents. For example, hamters and chick.

egg -- chick -- hen 

Do you know? Sometimes other insects lay eggs on a caterpillar's body. When the eggs hatch, the young insects will eat the caterpillar until they turn into adults.