Key learning points

1. Animals and plants adapt to their environments.
2. Animals and plants within a biome are interdependent.
3. If a single plant or animal is removed from a biome, this will affect other plants and animals within the biome.

Keywords

• Biome - A biome is a large region of the world with places that have similar climates, vegetation and animals that have adapted to living there.

• Adapt - Adapt means to make changes to suit different conditions.

• Interdependent - Interdependent means two or more things depend on or rely on each other.

• Environment - An environment is all the living things in an area, such as plants and animals, and the non-living things around them, such as air, water and soil.

Common misconception