Habitats
Living vs. Nonliving things
Habitat pictures/videos
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What is a habitat?
The natural home for a plant, animal, or other organism.
100
How do you know if something is LIVING?
It grows, reproduces, moves, and takes nutrients!
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What animal is distantly related but lives in 3 different habitats?
A bear!
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True or false....
Shelter can be living and nonliving.
TRUE!
Living- tree or coral
Nonliving- caves or houses
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Give 2 examples of non-living things that living things can depend on.
Answers vary!
Plants rely on the sun and water.
Animals rely on water to drink and to swim in.
Rocks can be used as shelter.
Birds can depend on dead tree branches/leaves.
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What is the definition of a NEED?
Like in the question... What is an animals basic needs?
a need is something you must have to survive; like food, water and a home
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What habitat would a cactus live in? What is one way it survives there?
Desert!
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Think about the ocean habitat...
Tell me an example of a living thing in the habitat and an example of a non living thing.
Answers vary!
Living- fish and plants
Nonliving- rocks, sand, sunlight
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What habitat is this? How do you know?
Answers vary.
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An animals habitat provides all of the animal's basic needs. What are the basic needs of a habitat?
Food, air, water, shelter/cover, and space!
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What does interdependence mean?
Interdependence is simply how living and non-living things depend on one another.
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What habitat is this? How do you know?
Desert!
Explanation varies.
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What happens when an animals survival is threatened? What will they do?
They will leave the area or adapt.
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Give one example of how living organisms are dependent on other living organisms.
Then give an example of how living organisms are dependent on non living organisms.
Answers vary!
Living things depend on other living things for food.
Animals depend on plants for oxygen.
Living things depend on nonliving things for water, sun, shelters.
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All of the interactions between living and nonliving things refer to as a _____________.
A system!!! Everything interacts with each other one way or another in a habitat!