Unit 5 Lesson 1 Where Do Plants and Animals Live?

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All Around You

• All the living and nonliving things around you
make up your environment.

• Living things live in an environment that meets

their needs.

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All Around You

• A shelter is a place where an animal can be safe.

• Many animals, such as foxes, need shelter.

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Salty Water
• An ocean environment is a large body of salt
water.

• The top layer of the ocean has many living things.

• Plants and other living things get the sunlight they

need. Animals, such as jellyfish, also find food
there.

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In a Rain Forest
• A rain forest gets a lot of rain. The trees grow tall
and block the sun.

• Many animals, such as birds and monkeys, use tall

trees for shelter.

• Shorter plants do not need much sunlight.

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Dry As a Bone
• A desert environment gets little rain.

• Plants, such as cactuses, store water in their

stems or leaves. Desert plants and animals can
live with little water.

• Desert animals may hide during the day.

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It’s Cold Out Here!

• A tundra environment is a very cold.

• Plants grow close together near the ground.

• Animals, such as the Arctic fox, have thick fur to

stay warm.

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On the Prairie
• A prairie is mostly dry, with just a few kinds of
trees and shrubs.

• Large animals eat the grasses.

• Smaller animals live in the grasses.

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The Food Chain

• All living things need energy from the sun.

• A food chain shows how energy moves from

plants to animals.

• Plants use sunlight to make food. Animals eat the

plants to get the energy they need.

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The Food Chain

• How does energy move from the sun to organisms
in this food chain?

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