Unit 1: Habitats and Communities
Lesson 1: What is a habitat?
1. It is the place where an animal lives.
2. It has all the things the animal needs to survive.
2. It has all the things the animal needs to survive.
Lesson 2: The needs of living things
Lesson 3: How do living things get energy?
Producers - Get energy from sunlight. The sunlight helps them turn water and carbon dioxide into sugar. (From the sun). This is called photosynthesis. The chlorophyll in their leaves help capture the sunlight.
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Consumers - Get energy by eating other living things.
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Decomposers - Get energy by eating dead things.
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Lesson 4: Physical Adaptations
Physical Adaptation: Features of a living thing that helps it survive in its habitat.
Example: Giraffe neck helps it reach leaves on tall trees. |
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Lesson 5: Behavioural Adaptations
Behavioural Adaptation: What a living thing does to help it survive in its habitat.
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Archer Fish Behavioural Adaptation |
Lesson 6: Community
Community: A group of animals living and interacting together in the same place.
Lesson 7: Habitat Change
We learned about 6 factors that can change in a habitat:
1. Water availability 2. Plant and Animal Life 3. Weather 4. Sunlight 5. Amount of Space |
What could change a habitat?
1. Disasters 2. People cutting and farming 3. Pollution 4. Climate Change 5. And many more ways... |
Lesson 8: Types of interactions
Vocabulary
Habitat
A place where a living thing live. It has everything it needs to survive.
Survive
To stay alive.
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