Plants and Animals Depend on Each Other
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Objective
I can describe how plants and animals depend on each other.
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Key concepts
3 concepts
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Mutualism is when two living things work together to help each other.
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A clownfish protects a sea anemone from animals that might hurt it, and the sea anemone protects the clownfish from predators. The clownfish also provides nutrients from its poop to the sea anemone.
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Coyotes can chase down fast animals, while badgers can dig into tunnels to catch animals, and then they share the food.
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Practice
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What is a mutualism?
In the mutualism between clownfish and sea anemones, what does the clownfish provide to the sea anemone?
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“Describe one example of how two different animals depend on each other, as explained by Mister Brown.”
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