Animal Needs

In order to stay alive, animals need certain things. These include food, water, oxygen. space, and shelter.

Animals need food because it gives them energy to move and grow. Different animals have different physical
traits to help them get food. Some meat eaters, like tigers, have sharp teeth to help them bite and tear meat.
Many plant eaters, such as cows, have large, flat teeth for chewing.

Animals need water because it helps them turn food into energy and get rid of waste.

Animals need oxygen, which is a gas. Animals get oxygen by breathing. Most land animals use lungs to get
oxygen from the air. Some animals that live in water get oxygen from the water by using gills

Animals need space to move around, grow, find food, and raise their young. Different animals need different
amounts of space.

Animals need shelter, or a safe place to be. No animal can be alert all the time, which means it needs
somewhere safe to go. Zebras live in herds, so some zebras can keep watch while others sleep. you will
develop a design for a newly discovered animal in a specific habitat. There is a type of animal that lives in
the forest. These animals eat tree nuts and seeds. They find shelter high up in the treetops. Their fur helps
them blend in with the bark of the tree. Plant Needs: Like all organisms, plants have needs. Plants get
everything they need from their environment. Living things that do not get what they need may die, Plants
need air, water, nutrients, light, and space to live.

Plants get a gas called carbon dioxide from their environment. Plants take in the gas through their leaves
They use this gas to make food.

Like all living things, plants need water. They take in Water through their roots. Water travels from the roots,
up the stem, to the leaves. Plants use water for many life functions. Water helps a plant to stand up. It keeps a
plant from wilting. A plant also uses water to make food.

Nutrients are substances that help living things grow and stay healthy. Nutrients are dissolved in water.
Plants absorb nutrients when they take in water through their roots. The green parts of plants collect the
energy in light and use it to make their own food. Plants need space to grow and to get water and sunlight.
Different plants need different amounts of space. Animal Needs :

In order to stay alive, animals need certain things. These include food, water, oxygen, space, and shelter.

Animals need food because it gives them energy to move and grow. Different animals have different physical
traits to help them get food. Some meat eaters, Ilke tigers, have sharp teeth to help them bite and tear meat.
Many plant eaters, such as cows, have large, flat teeth for chewing.

Animals need water because it helps them turn food into energy and get rid of waste.

Animals need oxygen, which is a gas.

Animals get oxygen by breathing. Most land animals use lungs to get oxygen from the air. Some animals that
live in water get oxygen from the water by using gills

Animals need space to move around, grow, find food, and raise their young. Different animals need different
amounts of space. Animals need shelter, or a safe place to be. No animal can be alert all the time, which
means it needs somewhere safe to go. Zebras live in herds, so some zebras can keep watch while others sleep.
Ecosystem : Living things live in ecosystems. An ecosystem includes all the living and nonliving things that
interact in an environment. Living things include plants and animals. Nonliving things include rocks, soll,
water, and air.
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A resource is a material that living things use to survive. Living things get resources from their ecosystems.
For example, plants and animals get the air and water they need from their environments. But every
ecosystem has a limited amount of resources. As a result, living things must compete for them. Competition
is the struggle among living things for resources. When organisms cannot compete, they cannot get the
resources they need. They may die or move to another ecosystem. The frog uses its sticky tongue so capture
an insecto

A polar bear has an adaptation calle which means it blends into its environ helps living things stay safe. A
snake the match the ground it lies on, making one predator to see the snake

Some animals are adapted to living in climates. Camels have patches to pro they are not burned when they
kneel. walruses have a layer of fat called blu skin that helps them stay warm. Desert Adaptations

A desert is a very dry environment It rarely rains in a desert. When ram does fall, it can pour down heavily
Temperatures are often very hot during the day and cold at night Organisms that live in a desert have
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these conditions

Water

Desert plants cannot depend on regular rainfall for their water, Instead, theil roots are adapted to spread
widely or grow deep to find water. A desert plant has stems adapted for storing water. Many desert animals
get their water by eating plants of other animals

Temperature

Desert enimals have adaptations to keep them from being too hot during the day. Coyotes and rattlesnakes
are nocturnal.

This means they are active at night and sleep during the daytime. Jackrabbits stay cool by having small
bodies and long ears, This helps the heat escape from their bodies. Some animals have light-colored bodies.
Light colors absorb less heat.

Circle two adaptations that help desert plants live for long periods of time without water. Ocean

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Oceans are home to millions of living things. Each living thing has adaptations that help it survive in the
salty water.

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Algae

Seaweeds look like plants, but they are not. They are plant-like organisms called algae.

Like plants, algae make their own food from sunlight. Most algae have structures that are like leaves. Some
algae have root-like structures for attaching themselves to the ocean floor Because they need sunlight, rooted
algae can only live in shallow water. Algae that have no roots drift near the ocean's sunlit surface.

Ocean Animals

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Whales and dolphins breathe air. They can hold their breath for a long time as they dive deep to look for
food. When they need to breathe, they rise quickly to the surface. Fish, on the other hand, have gills for
getting oxygen from water.

Many ocean animals have fins. Fins help them swim quickly and control their movement. Ocean animals
swim for long distances when they migrate. To migrate means "to move from one place to another." Animals
migrate to find food, to reproduce, or because the water temperature has changed. Forest

A forest is an environment in which many trees grow near one another. The tops of tall trees are in sunlight.
Some organisms are adapted to life in the treetops Others live on the ground.

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Plants

Tropical rain forests are very wet places. Too much water can harm plant leaves. Some leaves have grooves
that allow water to drain off easily. Little sunlight reaches beneath the treetops. Plants living on the dim
forest floor have large leaves to catch as much sunlight as possible.

A temperate forest grows where winters are cold and dry. In winter there is less sunlight for plants to make
food. Many trees have adapted by shedding their leaves each autumn when the weather gets cold. Without
leaves, the trees need less water.

Animals. Fossils

A fossil is a trace of the remains of a living thing that died long ago. Fossils can be shells, bone, skin, leaves,
or even footprints. They can form in several different ways.

Trace Fossils

Sometimes an animal leaves a footprint on the ground as it walks. The shape of the animal's footprint leaves
an imprint in mud or clay. The mud hardens and changes to rock over time. These fossils are called trace
fossils. They record a trace of a once-living organism.

Preserved Remains

Some fossils are the actual remains of an organism trapped in Earth's materials. Amber fossils formed when
insects became trapped in tree sap, which hardened over time. Preserved remains also have been found in tar
and ice. Molds and Casts

Some fossils, such as bones and teeth, look like the actual parts of animals. When scientists find a bone of a
dinosaur, they really have found rock hardened into the shape of a bone.

A seashell can make an imprint, or a mark, in mud or sand. Over time, the shell is buried in more layers of
sand or mud. Water and minerals seep into the ground. The shell breaks down, but the material around it
hardens into rock. The shell-shaped space that is left is called a mold. The empty space can be filled with a
new material to show what the original shell looked like. This kind of model is called a [Link] is about
4.5 billion years old. People have lived on Earth only a small part of that time. Scientists learn about Earth's
past by studying fossils. Extinction is when there is no more of an organism's kind left on Earth. Antarctica is
a cold place. It is covered in snow and ice. Scientists have found fossils of leaves and wood there. These
fossils tell scientists that Antarctica was once a warm, wet area. Some fossils give clues about a living thing's
size, shape, and environment. The woolly mammoth became extinct thousands of years ago. Fossils tell us
that it had a large trunk and tusks .How deep a fossil is buried gives clues about when an organism lived.

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Fossils found closest to the surface are usually the youngest. Fossils found in deeper layers are usually
[Link] in rocks can also give hints about what Earth was like at different points in the past. Many fish
fossils are found on land. This means that millions of years ago, that land was covered with water. Over time,
the land rose above the water. Fossils remained in the rock and soil that had been underwater. Ecosystems

Living things depend on one another. They also depend on nonliving things, such as sunlight. Earth has many
different kinds of ecosystems. Different organisms live in different parts of an ecosystem. Living things get
food, water, and shelter from their habitats. Many different habitats make up an ecosystem.

Interactions in Ecosystems

The different parts of an ecosystem interact. All of the parts depend on and affect one another. For example,
animals depend on plants for food and shelter. Squirrels get acorns from trees to eat and gather branches to
make nests in trees. Squirrels can change and affect how trees grow. Trees and other plants give off oxygen
that animals need to survive.

Living things also depend on and affect nonliving things in an ecosystem. Every living thing changes its
ecosystem as it meets its needs. A spider spins a web to catch insects for [Link] living things make
bigger changes to their ecosystems. For example, bacteria, worms, and mushrooms break down leaves and
dead animals. This returns valuable nutrients to the soil. Later, plants can use those nutrients to grow.