Genre Nonfiction Comprehension Skill Draw Conclusions Text Features Labels Diagrams Glossary Science Content Plants and Animals Scott Foresman Science 3.4 ISBN 0-328-13818-5 ì<(sk$m)=bdibia< +^-Ä-U-Ä-U Vocabulary carnivore competition consumer decay decomposer disease germs herbivore omnivore predator prey producer What did you learn? 1. How do animals get energy to hunt for food? 2. What scientific term describes what happens when grass grows, gets eaten by a mouse, and Wilson then that by Donna mouse gets eaten by an owl? 3. What kind of animal has caused harm to many trees in the United States by eating too many of their leaves? 4. In this book, you have read about producers and consumers. Describe how producers and consumers interact. Use examples from the book. 5. Draw Conclusions Suppose you have seen a lot of mice in your backyard. You have also seen hawks hunting them. Suppose that one day you saw far fewer mice and no hawks. What might you conclude? Picture Credits Every effort has been made to secure permission and provide appropriate credit for photographic material. The publisher deeply regrets any omission and pledges to correct errors called to its attention in subsequent editions. Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R), Background (Bkgd). 5 (BR) ©Jerry Young/DK Images; 9 (B) Gerry Ellis/Digital Vision; 12 Getty Images; 15 (CL) ”Barrie Watts/DK Images; 17 (CB) ”Barrie Watts/DK Images; 20 (Bkgd) Getty Images. Scott Foresman/Dorling Kindersley would also like to thank: 13 Stephen Oliver/DK Images. Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the copyright © of Dorling Kindersley, a division of Pearson. ISBN: 0-328-13818-5 Copyright © Pearson Education, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is protected by Copyright, and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval syst