1 4 environments (life sciences)

Life Sciences
Standards
Preview
Standard Set 2. Life Sciences
2. Plants and animals meet their
needs in different ways. As a basis for
understanding this concept:

by Mary Beth Spann

2.a. Students know different plants
and animals inhabit different kinds
of environments and have external
features that help them thrive in
different kinds of places.

Genre

Nonfiction

Comprehension Skill

Use Context Clues

Text Features

• Labels
• Glossary

Science Content

Environment

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Vocabulary
desert
environment
forest
ocean

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by Mary Beth Spann


What is an
environment?
An environment is a place.
Plants and animals live in an
environment.

An environment has air.
An environment has food.
An environment has water.
An environment has what plants
and animals need to live.

Raccoon

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Living in an Environment
Plants and animals have parts.
These parts help plants and
animals live in their environment.

Giraffes eat leaves.
Giraffes have long necks.
They can reach leaves that are
up high.

This sheep lives in a rocky place.
It has hooves to help it climb.

Sheep

<PHOTO> giraffe from SE p 105

Hooves

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Giraffes

5


What lives in
a forest?
A forest is an environment.
A forest has many trees.
A forest has other plants too.
Fern

6

Trees have different leaves.
Some leaves look like long needles.
Needle leaves help trees keep water
in the winter.

Pine needles

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Animals Living in Forests
Black bears live in forests.
Black bears have sharp claws.
They use their claws to climb.
They use their claws to get food.

Black bears have thick fur.
Fur keeps black bears warm.
Black bear

Baby black bear

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What lives in
an ocean?

Fish live in oceans.
Fish use gills to breathe
underwater.

An ocean is an environment.
An ocean is a large body of
salt water.
An ocean has many deep parts.

Surfgrass lives in oceans.
Surfgrass has roots and stems.
Surfgrass has leaves and flowers.
Surfgrass

Gill

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Other Animals in an Ocean
Environment
A sea otter lives in the ocean.
It finds food in the ocean.
It has thick fur to keep warm.

Gray whales live in oceans.
They have blubber.

Blubber is thick fat.
Blubber keeps the whales warm.
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What lives in
a desert?

Animals in a Desert
This iguana has light-colored skin.
Light colors stay cool in the Sun.

A desert is an environment.
A desert is very dry.
Many plants and animals live
there.

The roadrunner has long legs.
It can run fast to catch food.

Roadrunner
Iguana

<PHOTO> Iguana from SE p 116
<PHOTO> Roadrunner
from SE p117

<PHOTO> Bush from SE p 114

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What did you learn?

Glossary
desert

an environment that is
very dry

environment a place where plants and
animals live
forest

ocean

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1. What are some of the different
environments you learned about?
2. What things in an environment help
plants and animals live?
3.

Write to explain how
an animal’s body can help it live in its

environment.

4.

Use Context Clues Go back to the
picture of the giraffe on page 5. What
clues does it give us about giraffes?

an environment that has
many trees and other plants
an environment that has a
large body of salt water