Living Together: Species Coexistence
Explore how different species live and interact in the same environment, focusing on symbiotic relationships, competition, and predation for Grade 3 science.
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Living Together: Species Coexistence
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet is about how different living things share the same home.
1. What does 'coexistence' mean for different animals?
They fight all the time.
They live in different places.
They live in the same place at the same time.
They eat the same food.
2. When animals need the same things, like food or space, they might have .
3. A predator is an animal that another animal for food.
4. A prey animal is the one that gets by a predator.
5. All animals in an ecosystem help each other.
True
False
6. Give an example of two animals that might compete for food in a forest.
Match the type of interaction with its description.
1. Predation
a. Animals needing the same resources
2. Competition
b. One animal hunts and eats another
3. Symbiosis
c. Different species living closely together, often helping each other