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Scott Foresman Science 2.3
Genre Comprehension Skill Text Features Science Content
Nonfi ction Cause and Effect • Diagrams
• Glossary
Ecosystems
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by May Evans
Scott Foresman Science 2.3
Genre Comprehension Skill Text Features Science Content
Nonfi ction Cause and Effect • Diagrams
• Glossary
Ecosystems
ISBN-13:
ISBN-10: 978-0-328-34216-70-328-34216-5
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Life Science
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food chain
food web
predator
prey
producer
What did you learn?
each other safe Write to explain how this happens Use words from the book as you write
changes to a food web? What effect did the oil spill have on the sea otters on page 15?
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How Plants and Animals
Live Together
by May Evans
Trang 3What do plants and
animals need?
Plants are living things
Plants need air and water
Plants need light from the Sun
Plants need space.
Plants are producers
A producer makes its own food
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Animals are living things too
Animals need air and water
Animals need shelter
Animals need space.
Animals are consumers
A consumer cannot make its own food
A consumer gets food from its habitat.
Trang 4Different Needs
Plants and animals live together
Plants and animals need each other
Plants and animals get what they need from
the places they live
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Big animals need a lot of food and space
Small animals need less food and space.
If there is not enough food and space, some animals may die.
Trang 5How do plants and animals
get food in a grassland?
Most plants make food
Some animals eat plants for food
Other animals eat these animals
This is a food chain.
All food chains start with the Sun
Plants get energy from the Sun
Plants use energy to make food
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Animals eat the plants and other animals
Energy goes from the Sun to the animals.
All food chains have predators
A predator hunts and eats other animals
All food chains have prey
Predators eat prey
Prey is the food of predators.
Trang 6Food Web in a Grassland
Places can have more than one food chain
A food web is many food chains in
one place
A grassland has many food chains
They make up a food web
Fox Raccoon
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Look at the arrows in this food web
How many animals eat corn?
How many animals eat voles?
Living things in a food web need each other for energy.
Hawk
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get food in an ocean?
An ocean has food chains and food webs
Kelp starts an ocean food chain.
Kelp grows in the ocean
It uses light from the Sun to make food
Kelp
Sea star
Sea urchin
The sea urchin gets energy when it eats the kelp
The sea star gets energy when it eats the sea urchin
Energy from the Sun goes to all the plants and animals in the ocean.
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Sea otter
Trang 8A Food Web in an Ocean
There are many food chains in an ocean
They make up ocean food webs
Kelp
Kelp crab
Sea urchin
Sea star
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Look at this picture of an ocean food web
Which animals eat kelp?
How many animals eat sea urchins?
Orca
Sea otter
Sea gull
Trang 9What can cause a food web
to change?
Many things can change a food web
Changes can hurt plants and animals
Some changes are caused by people
The oil from a ship spilled into the ocean.
Look at these sea otters
Sea otters have fur
The sea otters’ fur was hurt by the oil
People cleaned the sea otters
They also cleaned the water
People made the ocean safe again.
Trang 10How do plants and animals
help each other?
Plants and animals can help each other
Animals can use plants for shelter
The animals can help the plants too.
An ant makes its home on an acacia plant
The ant helps the plant stay safe
It bites any animal that tries to eat the plant.
Cardinal fish live near sea urchins
The sea urchin’s spines stop other animals from eating the fish
Cardinal fish do not help or hurt the sea urchins.
Trang 11Building Nests
Some animals use plant parts to make nests
Some animals use animal parts to
make nests.
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This squirrel’s nest has twigs and leaves on the outside
The twigs and leaves come from plants
This nest has feathers and wool on the inside
The feathers and wool come from animals.
Trang 12Animals Need Each Other
Sometimes animals help each other get food
Sometimes animals keep other animals safe
This bird eats bugs that might hurt the rhino.
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This boxer crab can stay safe near
a sea anemone
A sea anemone is an animal
The sea anemone can sting predators that want to get the boxer crab.
Trang 13A remora fish swims with a shark
The shark keeps the remora fish safe
It scares away predators.
The remora fish needs the shark
The shark does not hurt the remora fish.
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Plants and animals live together in their habitats
They need each other in many different ways
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Trang 14Glossary
its own food but gets it from its habitat
plants to animals in a habitat
other animals
animals
food
Vocabulary
consumer
food chain
food web
predator
prey
producer
What did you learn?
each other safe Write to explain how this happens Use words from the book as you write
changes to a food web? What effect did the oil spill have on the sea otters on page 15?
Photographs: Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for
photographic material The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its
attention in subsequent editions Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott
Foresman, a division of Pearson Education Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom
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