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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
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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
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
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
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.
HerbivoreA consumer that eats only plants.
Some consumers eat plants, others eat meat, and some eat both.
Food ChainsFood 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.
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Grass is eaten by Grasshopper is eaten by Toad is eaten by Snake is eaten by Hawk