Plants and animals living together

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

2.d. Students know how to infer what
animals eat from the shapes of their
teeth (e.g., sharp teeth: eats meat; flat
teeth: eats plants).

2.c. Students know animals eat plants
or other animals for food and may also
use plants or even other animals for
shelter and nesting.

Genre

Nonfiction

Comprehension Skill

Predict

by Rachel Brady

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• Labels

• Glossary

Science Content

Food Chains

Scott Foresman Science 1.5

ISBN 0-328-23484-2

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Vocabulary
food chain
marsh
shelter
by Rachel Brady

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How do plants
and animals need
one another?

Some animals live in plants.
Some animals live on other
animals.

Plants and animals need
each other.
Some animals eat plants.
Some animals eat other animals.
Bird

from page
133 of SE and enlarge.>

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Squirrel

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Animals Need Shelter
A shelter is a place where

animals live.
Some animals build nests.
Some animals live in trees.

Some animals use other animals
for shelter.
Fleas live on other animals.

Birds

Flea

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How do animals
help spread seeds?
Some animals carry seeds.
They carry them to new places.
New plants may grow there.
Bear

Squirrels bury some acorns.
These acorns may grow into
new trees.
Squirrel

Seeds

New tree

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What is a food
chain?
Plants use energy from sunlight
and grow.
Some animals eat plants.
Some animals eat the animals
that eat plants.

This is a food chain.
A food chain is one way plants
and animals depend on each
other.
Bird

Insect

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How do living

things get food
in a desert?

The insect eats the plant.
The lizard eats the insect.
Lizard

The desert is an environment.
Deserts have food chains.
Plants use energy from sunlight to
make food.
Desert plant

Insect

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Food for Desert Animals
The roadrunner sees the lizard.
The roadrunner eats the lizard.

The coyote sees the roadrunner.
The coyote eats the roadrunner.

Roadrunner

Coyote

Lizard

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How do living
things get food
in a marsh?

The cricket eats the plant.
The frog eats the cricket.
Frog

A marsh is a wetland
environment.
Marshes have food chains.
Plants use energy from sunlight to
make food.
Marsh
grass

up flow chart/photos of marsh
grass, cricket, and frog from
pages 136-137 of SE.>

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Cricket

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Food for Marsh Animals
The snake sees the frog.
The snake eats the frog.

Hawk
Snake

The hawk sees the snake.
The hawk eats the snake.

Frog

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What do
animals eat?
Some animals have sharp,
pointed teeth.
These animals eat other animals.

Animals that Eat Plants

Some animals have flat teeth.
These animals eat plants.
Cow

Sharp teeth

Lion
Flat teeth

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What did you learn?

Glossary
food chain the way food passes from
one living thing to another
marsh

a wetland environment

shelter

a safe place for animals
to live

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1. Name an animal that lives on other
animals.
2. What three marsh animals eat other
animals?
3.

Choose an animal.
Write a story about how it eats. What
does it eat? What kind of teeth does it
have?

4.

Predict If an animal has flat teeth,
what might it eat?