How do living things interact and get energy?

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

2. 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?

3. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

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

8. How do living things get energy? Plants get energy from the sun. Animals get energy from plants or from other animals that eat plants.

9. Producer A living thing that makes its own food.

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

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

12. Carnivore A consumer that eats only animals.

13. Omnivore A consumer that eats both plants and animals.

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

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

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

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

18. Food Chains Click the pic. • 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 byGrasshopper is eaten byToad is eaten by Snake is eaten byHawk

19. 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.