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Science, Grade 5
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INTERACTIONS
AMONG
LIVING
THINGS
The
Flow
of
Energy
An
important
and
essential
interaction
among
living
things
involves
the
flow
of
energy
within
an
environment.
ALL
living
organisms
need
energy
to
survive!
Energy
moves
(or
flows)
through
an
environment
through
food
chains
and
food
webs.
Food
Chains
The
following
is
an
example
of
a
food
chain:
What
do
the
arrows
represent
in
a
food
chain?
The
arrows
shown
on
food
chains
and
webs
represent
the
flow
of
energy
between
organisms.
For
land
animals,
all
food
chains
usually
begin
with
plants.
For
ocean
animals,
food
chains
usually
begin
with
a
microorganism
(an
organism
that
is
too
small
to
see
with
our
eyes
alone)
called
plankton.
Plankton
is
plant-like.
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Food
Webs
A
food
web
consists
of
many
food
chains
that
overlap
each
other
in
an
environment.
This
is
because
not
all
animals
eat
the
same,
exact
thing
all
the
time.
If
animals
did
eat
the
same
food,
relying
on
a
single
food
chain,
their
survival
could
be
threatened
if
something
happened
to
that
one
food
source.
Food
webs
and
food
chains
include
several
key
players:
Producers
–
which
are
plants
-
they
are
organisms
that
make
their
own
food
and
get
their
energy
from
the
Sun.
Consumers
–
those
organisms
who
can’t
make
their
own
food
and
obtain
energy
by
eating
other
organisms
(all
animals
happen
to
be
consumers).
Consumers
include
several
specific
groups
of
organisms:
•
Herbivores
–
organisms
that
only
eat
plants
•
Carnivores
–
organisms
that
only
eat
other
animals
•
Omnivores
–
organisms
that
eat
both
plants
and
other
animals,
and
•
Decomposers
–
organisms
that
eat
dead
plants
and
animals
and
waste.
Animal
Competition
We
are
not
talking
about
Animal
Olympics
here.
We
are
talking
about
animals
competing
for
their
LIVES!
Organisms
compete
for
several
reasons.
They
compete
for
important
resources
such
as
food,
water,
and
space.
When
resources
are
limited,
competition
among
organisms
increases.
Animal
Interactions
Animals
interact
with
each
other,
sometimes
for
the
good,
other
times
for
the
not
so
good….
What
is
symbiosis?
Symbiosis
is
the
long-term
relationship
between
two
or
more
different
organisms
that
may
benefit
each
member,
may
benefit
only
one
member,
or
may
harm
one
organism
while
the
other
benefits.
Different
forms
of
symbiosis:
Commensalism
is
the
relationships
between
members
of
two
different
species,
in
which
one
organism
is
benefited
while
the
other
organism
is
neither
harmed
nor
benefited
in
any
way.
An
example
of
commensalism
is
a
bird
nest
in
a
tree
(the
bird
gets
a
place
to
live
and
the
tree
doesn’t
get
hurt
and
doesn’t
benefit
from
the
bird).
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Parasitism
is
the
relationship
between
two
different
organisms
in
which
one
organism
lives
in
or
on
another
organism
and
benefits
greatly
while
causing
harm
to
the
organism
it
is
living
on
or
in.
A
parasite
is
an
organism
that
feeds
off
another
organism.
The
organism
that
a
parasite
feeds
off
of
is
called
a
host.
An
example
of
parasitism
is
a
tapeworm
living
inside
a
dog.
Mutualism
is
the
relationship
between
two
organisms
in
which
BOTH
organisms
benefit.
An
example
of
mutualism
is
a
bee
and
flower.
A
bee
benefits
from
the
flower
by
getting
food
in
the
form
of
nectar
from
the
flower.
The
flower
benefits
because
the
bee
aids
the
flower
in
the
pollination
process…so
they
both
help
each
other.
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