Plants and animals need each other to survive. Plants provide oxygen, food, and shelter for animals. Some animals help plants reproduce by carrying pollen from flower to flower or moving seeds to new areas so they can grow. Together, plants and animals are part of an interconnected food chain that shows how they rely on each other.

1. How Do Plants and Animals Need Each Other? © First Grade Teachers

2. Vocabulary Words oxygen pollen food chain A kind of gas, animals breathe and plants put into air. Powder that flowers need to make seeds. Shows how animals and plants are linked

4. Animals use plants to meet their needs Some live in plants or use them to make homes. Deer hiding behind trees Heron hiding behind trees

5. Beaver building a dam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na2HYq11yuM

6. Some animals use plants for: FOOD OXYGEN

7. Animals Help Plants Some animals help plants make new plants. They carry pollen from flower to flower

8. They take the seeds to new places. These seeds grow into new plants. Horse carrying seeds Squirrel carrying seeds

9. Food chain Animals can be grouped by what they eat. Some eat plants. Some eat other animals.

10. Shows how animals and plants are linked.

11. HOW DO PLANTS HELP ANIMALS?

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