Year 2 Living Things and Habitats Worksheet - Intermediate

Year 2 Living Things and Habitats worksheet for Year 2 (Key Stage 1 / Year 1-2 (Ages 5-7)). Intermediate 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 • Intermediate

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Instructions: Explore how to tell whether something is living, dead or never alive, and discover how habitats meet animals’ needs. Read each task carefully and write your answers in the boxes. Use what you know about plants, animals and simple food chains.

Living, Dead or Never Alive?

Sort each item into one of the three groups. Living things need food, water and air, and can grow. Dead things were once alive; never-alive things have never been alive.

Items: a growing sunflower, a fallen dead leaf, a stone, a living worm, a wooden bench, a dead beetle

Living:

Dead:

Never alive:

What Makes It Living?

Choose the best answer for each question. Think about what living things do and what they need. Circle one answer for each question.

1. Which one is living?

2. Which thing was once alive but is now dead?

3. What does a living animal need to stay alive?

4. Which thing has never been alive?

Habitat Helpers

Match each living thing to the habitat where it can find what it needs. Draw a line from each animal or plant to one habitat. Each habitat is used once.

Draw a line to match each one

Fish

Woodland

Fox

Pond

Duck

Pond edge

Tiny Homes: Microhabitats

A microhabitat is a small place within a larger habitat. Read each clue and write the microhabitat that would suit the living thing best. Choose from the word bank.

Word bank: under a log, on a flower, in a pond, beneath leaf litter

1. A woodlouse needs a damp, dark place to hide.

2. A bee visits a place where it can find nectar.

3. A frog needs a wet place to swim.

4. A millipede searches among fallen leaves for shelter.

Build a Simple Food Chain

A food chain shows how food and energy pass from one living thing to another. Use the word bank to complete each chain. The arrows mean ‘is eaten by’.

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

1. grass → ___ → fox

2. leaf → ___ → bird

3. What is the first living thing in this chain: grass → rabbit → fox?

4. In leaf → caterpillar → bird, what eats the leaf?