Ecosystems
This term refers to the non-living chemical and physical parts of an environment, such as sunlight, temperature, and water.
What is abiotic?
An organism that actively hunts, kills, and feeds on other living organisms for survival.
What is a predator?
This trophic level breaks down dead organic matter and biological waste to recycle nutrients back into the soil.
What is decomposers?
This chemical compound with the formula H2O is the only substance on Earth that naturally exists in liquid, solid, and gas states.
What is water?
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Who is Ella Langley?
A single living thing—such as a plant, animal, fungus.
What is an organism?
Chameleons and arctic foxes use this type of structural adaptation to hide from predators or prey by blending into their surroundings.
What is CAMOUFLAGE
Animals like cows and deer that eat only plants are called this.
Herbivore or Primary Consumer
This type of force pulls objects toward the center of the Earth, keeping our feet on the ground.
What is gravity?
What country currently holds the title as Football World Cup champions?
What is Spain?
While a native species arrived in an area naturally, a species found naturally in only one specific geographical location and nowhere else is called this.
What is endemic?
This general term refers to a structural, physiological or behavioral trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
In food chain and food web diagrams, the arrows point directly in the direction of the transfer of this.
What is energy transfer?
Found inside the nucleus of almost every cell, this double-helix molecule contains the genetic code that acts as the instruction manual for how an organism grows and develops.
What is DNA?
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Who is Chase?
All the different populations of various species that live and interact together in a shared area.
What is a community?
Bears entering a state of dormant inactivity during cold winter months to conserve energy is an example of this type of adaptation.
Organisms like plants that create their own glucose and chemical energy through photosynthesis are known by this trophic role.
What are producers?
The process in which water transforms from a solid into a liquid due to heat.
What is melting?
If a classroom has 25 students and 3/5 of them prefer playing sport over reading, this total number of students prefers playing sport?
This term refers to the maximum population size of a species that a specific environment can sustainably support over time based on available resources like food, water, and shelter.
What is carrying capacity?
Prey animals like deer, rabbits, and horses have eyes located on the sides of their heads, giving them an expansive wide-angle view of their surroundings—known as this—to spot approaching predators from almost any direction.
What is peripheral vision?
Unlike a food chain—which shows a single, linear path of energy transfer, what shows interconnected feeding relationships and multiple food sources?
What is a food web?
What angle that the Earth tilts from it's axis (Earth's axial tilt)?
What is 23.5 degrees?
New Zealand holds its general elections to form a government at least once every this many years.
What is three years?