How do living things interact and get energy? Plants and Animals living together

You are floating in clear ocean water. You look down through a face mask. You see a school of small fish. They all move together. Suddenly the school turns. You blink with surprise. When you look again, the school is gone! Where did the fish go? Why were they swimming together like that?

Living things may affect each other when they interact. The interactions can be helpful, harmful, or neither! Helping in groups – Members of a herd protect each other. One kind helping another – a tree helps a flower get light. Two kinds helping each other – While it drinks flower nectar, an insect spreads pollen among the flowers. Ways living things interact

Hi! Click me to view a video clip about prairie dogs!! A grown barnacle is about 5 cm wide. It grabs food from the water that the turtle swims through.

Match up how living things interact Helping in groups Two kinds helping each other Two kinds helping each other One kind helping another One kind helping another One bee flies back to the beehive to alert the other bees about where the flowers are.

Match up how living things interact Helping in groups Two kinds helping each other Two kinds helping each other One kind helping another One kind helping another A barnacle attaches itself to another to catch food.

Match up how living things interact Helping in groups Two kinds helping each other Two kinds helping each other One kind helping another One kind helping another Several kinds of small fish clean larger fish.

Plants get energy from the sun. Animals get energy from plants or from other animals that eat plants.

Producer A living thing that makes its own food.

Consumer A living thing that gets energy from food that they eat.

Herbivore A consumer that eats only plants. Some consumers eat plants, others eat meat, and some eat both.

Carnivore A consumer that eats only animals.

Omnivore A consumer that eats both plants and animals.

Which animal goes with the vocab. word? Click one Producer Herbivore Carnivore Omnivore

Which animal goes with the vocab. word? Click one Producer Herbivore Carnivore Omnivore

Which animal goes with the vocab. word? Click one Producer Herbivore Carnivore Omnivore

Which animal goes with the vocab. word? Click one Producer Herbivore Carnivore Omnivore

Food Chains Food chains are groups of producers and consumers that interact Energy passes to living things within food chains A consumer eats a producer and it gets energy Prey is any animal that is hunted by others for food A predator is a consumer that hunts for food. Click the pic. Grass is eaten by Grasshopper is eaten by Toad is eaten by Snake is eaten by Hawk

Food Web Where energy flow in a community takes place Made up of more than one food chain If the flow of energy in a food chain is broken, some organisms may not survive.

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