Life Science by Bobbie Nyden Genre Nonfiction Comprehension Skill Text Features Main Idea and Details • Captions Labels Glossary Science Content Ecosystems Scott Foresman Science 3.3 ISBN 0-328-13814-2 ì<(sk$m)=bdibec< +^-Ä-U-Ä-U Vocabulary community desert What did you learn? Where Plants and 1. What do animals need from their habitat? Animals Live 2. How do the plants in the grassland get water? environment Bobbie Nyden 3. Which kinds by of forests have trees that drop their leaves? grassland 4. In this book you have read about what happens to coyote populations when it rains a lot in Southern California. Write to explain why there could be more coyotes when it rains, using what you have read. 5. Main Idea and Details What main idea did you learn about the tundra? What other details did you learn about the tundra? ecosystem population tundra wetland Photographs: 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. Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the property of Scott Foresman, a division of Pearson Education. Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R) Background (Bkgd) Title Page: ©The Image Bank/Getty Images; 6 ©DK Images 8 (Bkgd) ©George Grall/NGS Image Collection, (BR) ©Danny Lehman/Corbis; 9 ©Robert Pickett/Corbis; 12 (T, CL) ©DK Images, (BL) ©Breck P. Kent/Animals Animals/Earth Scenes; 13 (TR) ©Carolina Biological Supply Company/Phototake, (BR) ©Randy M. Ury/Corbis; 14 ©Frans Lanting/Minden Pictures; 15 (TR) ©Kevin Schafer/Corbis, (CR) ©Gary W. Carter/Corbis, (BR) ©DK Images; 16 (CL) ©Rolf Kopfle/Bruce Coleman Inc., (CR) ©Michael Quinton/ Minden Pictures, (BR) ©The Image Bank/Getty Images; 17 (T) ©Suzanne L. & Joseph T. Collins/Photo Researchers, Inc., (BL) ©Tim Laman/NGS Image Collection, (BL) ©E.