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How Do Living Things Interact?
How Do Living Things Get Energy?
How Do Living Things Compete?
How Do Environments Change?
Healthy Environments
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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.
100
How do beavers affect, or change, the environment?
Beavers build dams out of mud and sticks. These dams cause the water to back up. This causes a new wetland to form.
100
What are five basic needs of people?
Food, water, shelter, air, and a clean environment.
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
200
What do seagulls and humans sometimes compete for?
Space
200
What are germs? Give two examples.
Very small living things or particles. Bacteria and viruses are germs.
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
What do young trees in a forest compete for?
Sunlight and space
300
Name two natural events that cause change. How do these natural events change the environment?
Hurricanes change coastlines by washing away beaches and knocking down trees. Floods kill plants and wash away birds' nests.
300
What is a condition in which the body, or part of the body does not work properly?
Disease
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
What do male bower birds compete with other male bower birds for?
Mates
400
Define a decomposer and give two examples.
A decomposer is a living thing that breaks down waste and living things that have died.
400
What are some things people can do to stay healthy?
Exercise, eat healthy foods, and wash their hands.
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).
500
Name six things that living things compete for.
Space, Oxygen, Mates, Water, Sunlight, and Food.
500
Name three examples of diseases.
The flu, chicken pox, and strep throat.