How Do Living Things Interact?
How Do Living Things Get Energy?
How Do Living Things Compete?
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Give one example of living things helping one another. In your example, both living things should benefit.
The coral hind fish, and the cleaner fish. A yucca moth and a flower.
100
Give an example of a predator and an example of prey.
A lion is a predator and the zebra is its prey. The lion eats the zebra.
100
What is competition?
The struggle that happens when two or more living things need the same resource.
200
Give an example of one kind of living thing helping another kind. In your example, only one of the living things should benefit.
The whale, and the barnacles.
200
Explain the difference in a food chain and a food web.
In a food chain the energy moves from one type of living thing to another. In a food web, the energy moves in many different ways.
200
What do animals and seagulls sometimes compete for?
Space or food
300
How do bees help each other while living in groups?
One bee finds flowers, then returns to the hive, and does a dance.
300
What is a living thing that eats food called?
Consumer
300
How do beavers affect, or change, the environment?
Beavers build dams out of sticks and mud. Water backs up behind the dam. This creates a new wetland.
400
How do prairie dogs protect themselves?
They take turns standing guard. If the guard senses danger, he whistles. The whole group then runs and hides.
400
What is a living thing that makes its own food called?
Producer
400
Name two natural events that cause change, and how do they change the environment.
Hurricanes can change coastlines. They wash away beaches and knock down trees. Floods can kill plants and wash away birds' nests.
500
What are the three ways living things interact? Remember, these interactions can be helpful, harmful, or neither.
Helping groups, one kind helping another, and two kinds helping each other.
500
Explain what an omnivore, carnivore, and herbivore are. Give an example of each.
Omnivores eat both plants and animals(bear). Herbivores eat only plants(sheep). Carnivores eat only meat(wolves).
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