Genre Comprehension Skill Text Features Science Content

Nonfiction Draw Conclusions • Captions Food Chains

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Scott Foresman Science 1.5

ISBN 0-328-13747-2

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 Vocabulary Extended Vocabulary What did you learn?
food chain connect
1. What are the parts of the seashore
marsh creatures
where animals are found?
oxygen seashore
rain forest shallow
2. What might a king ragworm eat?
tentacles
tides
3. Some
by Barbara L. animals
Luciano
dig into the ground to stay safe.
Write to explain how this helps
them. Use words from the book
as you write.

4. Draw Conclusions A pet hermit

crab eats fruits and vegetables.
A hermit crab that lives in the
Picture Credits seashore eats what it can find.
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.
Why do you think a seashore
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Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the copyright © of Dorling Kindersley, a division of Pearson.
fruits and vegetables?

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What You Already Know

Living things have needs. Plants, animals,
and people all need things to grow and
stay healthy.
Living things need food. Some living
things eat only plants. Other living things
eat only animals. Some living things eat both
plants and animals. Food chains connect
all living things. They show what different
living things eat.
Plants are parts of food chains. They
make their own food. They use air, sunlight,
Rain forests are habitats. They get a lot
of rain. Marshes are wetland habitats.
All habitats have food chains.
In this book, you are going to read about
a seashore habitat! Have you ever been to
the seashore? There are lots of living creatures
there. You will see some of these animals.
You will find out what they eat.
Hermit crab eating fish

and water to do it. Plants

give off oxygen. Oxygen
is a gas in the air.
People and animals
need oxygen to live.

Squirrel eating nut

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Seashore
The seashore is a habitat. There is a lot
of sand and water at the seashore. The water
is sometimes deep. The water is sometimes
shallow. It changes when tides bring water
in and out. Many plants make their homes at
the seashore. Many animals live there too.
There are food chains at the seashore.
Food chains connect living things. Different
living things need different food. Food chains
show the ways living things get their food.
Let us learn about some animals that live at
the seashore. Let us find out what they eat.
We can learn about seashore food chains.

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Dog Whelk
A dog whelk is a seashore animal. It has
a soft body and a hard shell. The shell can be
many colors. This one has stripes on its shell.
The dog whelk eats animals such as
barnacles, limpets, and mussels. Other animals,
such as crabs or sea birds, can eat the dog
whelk. But its hard shell helps keep it safe.
Dog whelk
on sponge
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Sea Anemone
The sea anemone may look like a plant,
but it is an animal! Sea anemones live on
rocks or coral. Coral are living things that
look like rocks.
A sea anemone uses its tentacles. It catches
and eats small fish or shrimp. Sea stars, snails,
or fish might eat sea anemones.
Sea anemone
Tentacle
Queen Scallop
A queen scallop is an animal with a
shell. The shell is in two parts. A queen
scallop lives with other queen scallops.
They live on sand under the water. They Rockling
eat algae (AL-jee). Algae are living things in seaweed
that are like plants in some ways. Sea birds
and sea stars can eat queen scallops.

Rockling
A rockling is a fish. It is fast in the water.
Queen scallops Young rocklings stay in schools, or groups,
of fish.
Rocklings eat animals, such as shrimp, small
crabs, and prawns. Rocklings need to watch
out for birds and fish called mackerel. If they
are not careful, the rocklings could be dinner!

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Hermit Crab
Sea star
Hermit crabs live in a shell. They can hide
in the shells. This helps protect them from
sea birds that might want to eat them.
Some people keep hermit crabs as pets!
A pet hermit crab might eat fruit or vegetables.
A seashore hermit crab eats what it can find.

Hermit crab Sea Star

Sea stars are small, slow
animals. They can move in Sea star eating
any direction. They do not mussels
have to turn to move.
Sea stars eat worms, mussels,
and creatures with shells. Did you know
that a sea star can push its stomach out of
its mouth? Some fish and some crustaceans
(kruh-STAY-shuhnz) eat sea stars.

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King Ragworm
The king ragworm lives in the sand.
It will sometimes dig into the ground.
It can hide from the sea birds that want
to eat it.
What does the king ragworm eat?
It eats both plants and animals. It eats
fish eggs, animal parts, and plants.
Ragworms
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Oystercatcher
An oystercatcher is a bird. It lives near
the water. It uses its bill to eat.
Do not believe the oystercatcher’s name!
It eats mussels. It also eats worms, shrimp,
and small crabs. Oystercatchers have to
watch out for foxes and rats.
Nesting
oystercatcher
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Seashore Animals Many living things can be
found in a seashore habitat.

There are many animals at the seashore.

They are all part of food chains. Every
habitat has food chains that connect the
creatures that live there. If you go to the
seashore, see if you can find any of the
creatures you found in this book!

Anemones and
sea star

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 Vocabulary Extended Vocabulary What did you learn?
Glossary
food chain connect
1. What are the parts of the seashore
marsh creatures
connect to link things together where animals are found?
oxygen seashore
rain forest shallow
creatures living things 2. What might a king ragworm eat?
tentacles
tides
seashore land at the edge of the ocean 3. Some animals
dig into the ground to stay safe.
shallow not deep Write to explain how this helps
them. Use words from the book
tentacles long body parts that help as you write.
animals touch, hold, or move
4. Draw Conclusions A pet hermit
tides the rise and fall of the ocean crab eats fruits and vegetables.
A hermit crab that lives in the
Picture Credits seashore eats what it can find.
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.
Why do you think a seashore
Photo locators denoted as follows: Top (T), Center (C), Bottom (B), Left (L), Right (R), Background (Bkgd).

Scott Foresman/Dorling Kindersley would like to thank: 11 (T) Stephen Oliver/DK Images. hermit crab does not eat just
Unless otherwise acknowledged, all photographs are the copyright © of Dorling Kindersley, a division of Pearson.
fruits and vegetables?

ISBN: 0-328-13747-2

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 system, or transmission in any form by any means, electronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. For information regarding permission(s), write to
Permissions Department, Scott Foresman, 1900 East Lake Avenue, Glenview, Illinois 60025.

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