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Science / Year 4 / Science Understanding / Biological sciences

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Curriculum content descriptions

Living things depend on each other and the environment to survive (ACSSU073)

Elaborations
  • investigating how plants provide shelter for animals
  • investigating the roles of living things in a habitat, for instance producers, consumers or decomposers
  • observing and describing predator-prey relationships
  • predicting the effects when living things in feeding relationships are removed or die out in an area
  • recognising that interactions between living things may be competitive or mutually beneficial
ScOT terms

Ecosystems

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