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Animals that only eat meat

Carnivore

A living thing that cannot make its own food and gets food from their habitat. Animals are an example.

Consumer

This is passed through each step in the food chain

Energy

Begins with the Sun and can include producers, consumers, prey, and predators

Food chain

Made up of more than one food chain

Food web

Environment with flat land covered with grasses and having few trees

Grassland

An area where plants and animals live

Habitat

Animals that only eat plants

Herbivore

Air, sunlight, and space to grow

Need

Body of salt water that covers nearly three fourths of the surface of the Earth

Ocean

Animal that eats both plants and meat

Omnivore

Can cause changes in food chains and food webs that may cause harm to plants and animals

People

An animal that is hunted for food

Prey

An animal that hunts another animal for food

Predator

A living thing that makes its own food. Most plants do this.

Producer

Things in the soil that breakdown dead plants and animals

Decomposer

What happens when animals take pollen from flower to flower

Pollination

An ocean plant that uses energy from sunlight to make food

Kelp

A bird that stays around a rhinoceros and eats the flies that might bother the rhinoceros

Egret

Sea animal that stings predators

Anemone

What do plants and animals need to grow?

Air, water, sunlight, ad space

What do plants and animals need to live?

Air, water, shelter, space and food.

Plants and animals depend on each other to meet their_____.

Needs

What happens when a habitat doesn't have enough food for all the animals?

Animals might die.

How do plants and animals get food in a grassland?

Most plants make their own food. Some animals eat plants. Other animals eat those animals. This is called a food chain.

Where do animals get their energy?

Animals get energy from the food they eat.

All food chains have _______.

predators

Most habitats have more than one _____ _____.

Food chain

A food web has _____ and _____.

Plants, animals

Plants and animals need each other for _____.

Energy

Give an example of how plants and animals get food in an ocean.

Kelp grown in the ocean and use energy from the Sun to makes its own food. A sea urchin eats the kelp. A sea star eats the sea urchin. A sea otter eats the sea star. Each time an animal eats something it gets energy.

What can cause a food web to change?

People - sometimes ships have accidents that cause oil to spill into the ocean. The oil covers plants and animals in the ocean. People work to wash the oil off the animals and help clean the water to make the water safe again for plants to live there.

Give an example of how plants and animals help each other.

Ants live in acacia plants but they also protect the plant by biting other animals that try to eat the plant.

Give an example of how animals get protection from other animals.

Cardinal fish live near sea urchins because sea urchins have sharp spines which protect the cardinal fish.

Some animals need _____ and other _____ to build nests.

Plants, animals

Give an example of how animals use plants and other animals to build nests.

A squirrel uses twigs and leaves to make its nest and also uses feathers from birds and wool from sheep.

Give an example of how animals need each other.

Remora fish need sharks and sharks protect the remora. The remora eats food the shark leaves behind but doesn't hurt or help the shark.