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Grade 4 · Science · Unit 3 of 5

Habitats Working Together

See how living and non-living things in Nova Scotia habitats depend on each other.

What your child practises

Practises how plants, animals and non-living things in local habitats such as forests, salt marshes, ponds and dunes depend on each other, including food chains and decomposers. It follows the Grade 4 Nova Scotia science outcome on habitats and touches on the Mi’kmaw idea of Netukulimk.

Nova Scotia Curriculum learning outcome: Life Science: Habitat · living and non-living parts of Nova Scotia habitats and how they depend on each other

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    A habitat is…

    • a kind of weather
    • the place where a plant or animal lives and finds what it needs
    • a type of rock

  2. Question 2

    Which is a food chain?

    • bobcat → deer → grass
    • deer → grass → sunlight
    • grass → deer → bobcat

  3. Question 3

    What do living things need from their habitat?

    • video games and toys
    • food, water, air and shelter
    • paved roads

  4. Question 4

    Atlantic salmon spend part of their lives in rivers and part in the ocean. This shows that…

    • habitats can be connected
    • fish do not need water
    • rivers and oceans are the same

  5. Question 5

    Which animal lives on the rocky ocean floor near the coast?

    • white-tailed deer
    • lobster
    • moose

  6. Question 6

    The predators that eat deer are removed from a forest. What may happen to the deer?

    • There may be too many, and they might eat too many plants
    • Nothing will change
    • They will stop eating

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