Organisms and Their Environments

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Objective

I can analyze how living things and their surroundings impact each other, using examples like how plants prevent erosion or how roads change where water flows.

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Warm-up video

Amoeba Sisters · 6:50Vetted channel

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Practice

7 questions

1

Describe what a predator-prey relationship is and give an example from the video.

2

Explain what competition is in nature. Give an example of something plants might compete for.

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Exit ticket

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Describe one way that animals can change their environment and how that change might affect plants living there. Describe one way that plants can change their environment and how that change might affect animals living there.

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