Plants and animals living together

Students know animals eat plants or other animals for food and may also use plants or even other animals for shelter and nesting.. Students know how to infer what animals eat from th

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Nonfi ction Predict • Labels

• Glossary

Food Chains

Scott Foresman Science 1.5

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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.c. Students know animals eat plants

or other animals for food and may also

use plants or even other animals for

shelter and nesting.

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).

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Life Sciences

by Rachel Brady

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<pelican in nest> from page

133 of SE and enlarge.>

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How do plants

and animals need

one another?

Plants and animals need

each other.

Some animals eat plants.

Some animals eat other animals.

Bird

3

Some animals live in plants.

Some animals live on other animals.

Squirrel

Animals Need Shelter

A shelter is a place where

animals live.

Some animals build nests.

Some animals live in trees.

Birds

5

Some animals use other animals for shelter.

Fleas live on other animals.

Flea

How do animals

help spread seeds?

Some animals carry seeds.

They carry them to new places

New plants may grow there.

Bear

Seeds

7

Squirrels bury some acorns.

These acorns may grow into new trees.

Squirrel

New tree

What is a food

chain?

Plants use energy from sunlight

and grow.

Some animals eat plants.

Some animals eat the animals

that eat plants.

Insect

9

This is a food chain.

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

Bird

How do living

things get food

in a desert?

The desert is an environment.

Deserts have food chains.

Plants use energy from sunlight to

make food.

Desert plant

11

The insect eats the plant.

The lizard eats the insect.

Insect

Lizard

Food for Desert Animals

The roadrunner sees the lizard.

The roadrunner eats the lizard.

Roadrunner

Lizard

13

The coyote sees the roadrunner.

The coyote eats the roadrunner.

Coyote

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

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How do living

things get food

in a marsh?

A marsh is a wetland

environment.

Marshes have food chains.

Plants use energy from sunlight to

make food.

Marsh grass

15

The cricket eats the plant.

The frog eats the cricket

Cricket

Frog

Food for Marsh Animals

The snake sees the frog.

The snake eats the frog.

Snake

Frog

17

The hawk sees the snake.

The hawk eats the snake

Hawk

What do

animals eat?

Some animals have sharp,

pointed teeth.

These animals eat other animals.

Lion

Sharp teeth

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Animals that Eat Plants

Some animals have fl at teeth.

These animals eat plants.

Cow

Flat teeth

food chain the way food passes from

one living thing to another

marsh a wetland environment

shelter a safe place for animals

to live

1 Name an animal that lives on other

animals.

2 What three marsh animals eat other

animals?

Write a story about how it eats What does it eat? What kind of teeth does it have?

4 Predict If an animal has fl at teeth,

what might it eat?