Plants and animals meet their needs in different ways.. Students know different plants and animals inhabit different kinds of environments and have external features that help them t
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Nonfi ction Use Context Clues • Labels
• Glossary
Environment
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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.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.
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by Mary Beth Spann
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environment?
An environment is a place.
Plants and animals live in an
environment
Raccoon
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An environment has air.
An environment has food.
An environment has water.
An environment has what plants and animals need to live.
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Plants and animals have parts.
These parts help plants and
animals live in their environment.
This sheep lives in a rocky place.
It has hooves to help it climb.
Sheep
Hooves
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5
Giraffes eat leaves.
Giraffes have long necks.
They can reach leaves that are
up high
Giraffes
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a forest?
A forest is an environment.
A forest has many trees.
A forest has other plants too.
Fern
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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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Black bears live in forests.
Black bears have sharp claws.
They use their claws to climb.
They use their claws to get food.
Baby black bear
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Black bears have thick fur.
Fur keeps black bears warm.
Black bear
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an ocean?
An ocean is an environment.
An ocean is a large body of
salt water.
An ocean has many deep parts.
Gill
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Fish live in oceans.
Fish use gills to breathe underwater.
Surfgrass lives in oceans.
Surfgrass has roots and stems.
Surfgrass has leaves and fl owers.
Surfgrass
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Environment
A sea otter lives in the ocean.
It fi nds food in the ocean.
It has thick fur to keep warm.
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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?
A desert is an environment.
A desert is very dry.
Many plants and animals live
there
Roadrunner
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<PHOTO> Roadrunner from SE p117
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Animals in a Desert
This iguana has light-colored skin.
Light colors stay cool in the Sun
The roadrunner has long legs.
It can run fast to catch food.
Iguana
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environment a place where plants and
animals live
many trees and other plants
large body of salt water
1 What are some of the different
environments you learned about?
2 What things in an environment help
plants and animals live?
an animal’s body can help it live in its environment.
picture of the giraffe on page 5 What clues does it give us about giraffes?