Year 2 Living Things and Habitats Worksheet - Beginner

Year 2 Living Things and Habitats worksheet for Year 2 (Key Stage 1 / Year 1-2 (Ages 5-7)). Beginner level science practice, aligned to the UK National Curriculum. Print-ready with answer key included.

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Living Things and Habitats: Nature Detectives

Year 2 | Ages 6–7 | Beginner

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Instructions: Explore how to recognise living things, things that are dead and things that have never been alive. Then investigate habitats, tiny microhabitats and simple food chains. Read each instruction carefully and write or circle your answers in the spaces provided.

Living, Dead or Never Alive?

Decide what each thing is now: living, dead or never alive. Remember, a dead leaf came from a living plant, but a stone has never been alive. Circle one answer for each item.

1. A growing daisy: living / dead / never alive

2. A fallen, dry leaf: living / dead / never alive

3. A smooth pebble: living / dead / never alive

4. A wriggling worm: living / dead / never alive

5. A wooden bench: living / dead / never alive

What Do Living Things Need?

Choose the best answer for each question. Think about what plants and animals need to stay alive and grow. Circle one option on each line.

1. What does a plant need to make its own food?

2. What do animals need to drink?

3. Which is a sign that something is living?

4. Which one is a living thing?

Match Animals to Their Habitats

Draw a line from each animal to the place where it can find food and shelter. Habitats provide living things with what they need. Each habitat answer is used once.

Draw a line to match each one

Fox

woodland

Frog

pond

Earthworm

under a log

Duck

garden soil

Tiny Microhabitats

A microhabitat is a small place where a living thing finds what it needs. Read each clue and write the animal that best fits in the box. Choose from the word bank; use each word once.

Word bank: woodlouse, earthworm, spider, snail

1. I hide under a damp log and have a hard, segmented body.

2. I move through soil and help make it crumbly.

3. I make a web between plants or in a shed.

4. I have a soft body and may leave a silvery trail.

Build the Food Chain

A food chain shows how food energy passes from one living thing to another. Use the word bank to complete each chain, writing one word in each box. The arrow means “is eaten by”.

Word bank: grass, rabbit, fox, leaf, caterpillar, bird

1. grass → →

2. → caterpillar →