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36 Cards in this Set
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animals that only eat meat |
carnivore |
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a living thing that cannot make its own food |
consumer |
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this is passed through each step in a food chain |
energy |
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begins with the Sun and can include producers, consumers, prey, and predators |
food chain |
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made up of more than one food chain |
food web |
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an area where plants and animals live |
habitat |
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animals that eat only plants |
herbivore |
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air, sunlight, and space to grow |
need |
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body of salt water that covers nearly three fourths of the surface of the Earth |
ocean |
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animal that eats both plants and meat |
omnivore |
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can cause changes in food chains and food webs that may cause harm to plants and animals |
people |
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an animal that is hunted for food |
prey |
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an animal that hunts another animal for food |
predator |
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a living thing that makes its own food |
producer |
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the dust that is made by a plant and carried to other plants |
pollen |
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what happens when animals take pollen from flower to flower |
pollination |
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What do plants and animals need? Plants need ___, ____, _____, _______and _____ to grow. |
air, water, sunlight, space to grow, nutrients |
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Most green plants make their own ____. They are _____. |
food, producers |
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Animals need ___, _____, _____, and ____ to live and ______. Animals are ______. A consumer cannot make its own _____. Consumers get food from their ____. When a habitat does not have enough _______ for all the animals, some animals may need to ______ and others might even ______. |
air, water, sunlight, space to live, food Consumers food habitat food, move to another habitat, die |
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Plants and animals depend on each other to meet their ______. |
needs |
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Sometimes animals eat _____ and sometimes they eat other ________. This is called a ___ ____. Food chains start with the ____. Plants use the ___ ____ to make food. Animals get energy from the ____ they eat. Energy passes through each step of a _________. |
plants, animals food chain, Sun Sun's energy food food chain |
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All food chains have _____. The predators catch and eat other ______. The animals that are caught and eaten are called _____. |
predators animals prey |
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Most habitats have more than one ___ ___. Together, the food chains make a __ ___. The food web has _______ and ________. The plants and animals need each other for _______. |
food chain food web plants, animals energy |
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4: What can cause a food web to change? Many things can change in a __ ___. Some changes are not good for the plants and animals in their ____. The changes might make it hard for plants and animals to ___ there. Plants and animals in the food web may be ______. Some plants and animals might _____. |
food web habitat live hurt die |
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Sometimes ___ cause a change in the food web. Sometimes ships have accidents and ___ from the ship spills into the ocean. The ___ covers plants and animals in the ocean. People work to wash the ___ off the animals and help ___ the water. They work to make the water safe again for the plants and animals to __ there. |
people oil oil oil clean live |
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5: How do plants and animals help each other? Plants and animals ____ on each other to meet their needs. Animals need plants for things like shelter, food, ______, ______, and _________. Plants need animals for things like _____ and ______. |
depend safety, oxygen, protection, carbon dioxide, pollination |
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Some animals get ______ from plants. Example: Ants live in Acadia plants. But ants also ___ the plant. The ants bite other animals that try to eat the plant. Some animals get ___ from other animals. Cardinal fish live near sea urchins because the sea urchins have ___ ____. These ___ protect the Cardinal fish. Caterpillars hide from their predators in _____. |
shelter, protect protection, sharp spines, spines plants |
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Some animals need plants and other animals to ___ ___. A squirrel uses twigs and leaves to make its nest. The squirrel also uses ___ from birds and ___ from sheep for its nest. |
build nests, feathers, wool |
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Animals need __ ___, too. Remora fish need sharks to protect them. The sharks protect the remora. The remora eats food left behind by the sharks. The remora does not __ or ___ the shark. An ______ eats the flies that bother a rhinoceros. The ___ benefits by getting food while the rhinoceros benefits by getting_____ from the flies that are bothering it. |
each other. hurt, help egret, egret, relief |
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to rely on or need |
depend |
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to stay alive |
survive |
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to separate and go in different directions |
scatter |
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a small object made by a plant from which another plant can grow |
seed |
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a living thing that gets its energy from the sun and is unable to move from place to place on its own |
plant |
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a living thing that can move on its own and gets its energy from food |
animal |
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There are many types of seeds. Some ways they are scattered are (5). Animals can be ________ (seed sticks to _____) or _________ (gather ______). Plants depend on animals to carry seeds or _____ to other places so that the plant can reproduce. |
gravity, explosion, water, wind, animals hitchhikers, fur, harvesters, seeds pollinate. |
