Plants and Animals
living together
How do living
things interact
and get energy?
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?
Ways living things interact
 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.
A grown barnacle is about 5 cm wide. It grabs food
from the water that the turtle swims through.
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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.
Producer
A living thing
that makes
its own food.
Consumer
A living thing
that gets energy
from food that
they eat.
Some consumers eat plants, others eat meat, and some eat both.
Herbivore
A consumer
that eats only
plants.
Carnivore
A consumer
that eats only
animals.
Omnivore
A consumer
that eats both
plants and
animals.
Which animal goes with the vocab. word?
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Producer
Herbivore
Carnivore
Omnivore
Which animal goes with the vocab. word?
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Producer
Herbivore
Carnivore
Omnivore
Which animal goes with the vocab. word?
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Producer
Herbivore
Carnivore
Omnivore
Which animal goes with the vocab. word?
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Producer
Herbivore
Carnivore
Omnivore
Food Chains
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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.
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.