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Herbivores, Carnivores, and Omnivores Worksheets

Watch out for the unbridled enthusiasm brought in by these printable herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores worksheets. Nurturing curiosity about wildlife in grade 2 through grade 4 kids couldn't-be-easier than this. Not only will kids be able to identify, label, sort, match, classify, illustrate, cut, and glue your way through these fun pdf worksheets, but they'll also get to learn oodles of extra information that will last a lifetime. Take a peek at a handful of these free herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore worksheets, and come back for more!

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Definitions | Chart

Open doors to definitions and examples with this printable herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores chart. Familiarize 2nd grade and 3rd grade kids with the classification of animals based on the food they eat.

Identifying Herbivores

What do cows, goats, zebras, deer, and elephants have in common? All these animals eat only plants. Scout for these and many other plant-eaters and circle them in this identifying herbivores worksheet.

Spotting Carnivores

What is on the platter of each of these animals in this recognizing carnivores worksheet? Which of them are meat-eaters? Answer these queries and circle the predators that hunt down their prey.

Herbivore or Carnivore?

Is the animal, a plant-eater or a meat-eater? What is the role of the organism in the ecosystem? Grade 2 and grade 3 kids differentiate the predators from their prey by checking, matching, labeling, and coloring.

Recognizing Omnivores

Human beings and bears can eat both plants and animals. Can your crazy-about-animals kids identify these omnivores or flexible eaters that survive on what is available and check them?

Categorizing and Matching

How about getting kids to classify the animals based on what they eat? Let them connect the animal to the group it belongs to in this herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore matching worksheet pdf.

Labeling Animals Based on Food

Illustrated in this printable worksheet are pictures of animals. Keeping in mind their food habits classify the plant-eaters as herbivores, meat-eaters as carnivores and those that survive on both as omnivores.

Classifying Animals Based on Food

Look at the animals in the word box. Ponder over their food habits, sort them as herbivorous, carnivorous, and omnivorous animals, and write them in the appropriate column to complete the table.

Characteristics | Chart

Read and reflect on the salient features or adaptations that help distinguish between the categories. Skim through the characteristics that set the animals apart based on their choice of food.

Cut and Glue Activity

Ever used Venn diagrams in science? If not, you must give this sorting worksheet a try. Snip the pictures, identify the animals as herbivores, carnivores, or omnivores and glue them in the correct circle.

Filling in the Blanks

Gravitate toward this pdf worksheet if testing kids is on your mind. Read the facts related to herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores, and supply the missing word is all kids in grade 4 and grade 5 need to do.

Who am I?

Knock the mind out of its routine with these riddles. Skim through the characteristics defined in each description and use them as a hint to identify the animal and the category it belongs to.

Answer the Following

Whether it's defining important terms, reasoning about adaptations, differentiating between herbivores and carnivores, or comprehending the characteristics, this worksheet has it all covered for 4th grade and 5th grade kids.

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