Food Chains
What does habitat mean? What does extinction mean? Give me an example of both
A place where an animal or plant lives. The ocean is a dolphins habitat.
Extinction is when all the members of a species die out. For example, dinosaurs, passenger pigeons
Interdependence is when living things depend on each other to meet their needs. How does a sea anemone and a clown fish have interdependence?
The sea anemone has poisonous tentacles, but the clown fish lives in this sea anemone. The way it works is that the sea anemone protects the clown fish from danger, and the clown fish keeps the anemone's tentacles clean by eating the scraps of food left by them.
What is a resource?
A resource is something found in nature that is useful to organisms. They are always limited. Some examples are food, water, air, shelter, sunlight.
A eagle eating a snake is a predator, but a frog being eaten by a snake is the snake's ________
Prey
Plants use ____________ from sunlight to make food.
What is Energy?
Why are giant pandas at risk?
Giant pandas mostly eat bamboo. With the changing habitat, bamboo forests are being cut down. Therefore, there is not enough food and the giant pandas are dying.
seeds are carried by the wind,
seeds get caught on an animal's fur and carried away
seeds in fruit are eaten by animals then dropped as waste
Give me ways animals compete for things.
What would happen to the moose population in an area if all the wolves disappeared?
The moose number would increase, because there are no predators.
What is a terrarium?
A terrarium is a model ecosystem.
this is a group of organisms that produce organisms of the same kind
Species
True or False
Living things in an ecosystem are independent and rarely interact with each other
False. They DO interact all the time!
How might a decrease in predators affect prey?
It might cause an increase in prey if they live in a balanced ecosystem.
How can an animal be both a predator and a prey?
An animal can be the predator of other animals, such as a snake eating a mouse. BUT it could also be the prey for another animal, such as an owl eating a snake
A ___________ ecosystem has wet, mild winter but extremely hot, dry summers
What is it called when a bear sleeps all winter? Why do rabbits run in a zigzag pattern?
hibernation
and to avoid prey
A prey is an animal that is hunted for food
A predator is the animal that hunts other animals for food
One example is a rabbit being eaten by a lynx.
A tropical rainforest has a lot of animals and plants because ___________________
It has more resources.
An animal that carries pollen from one flower to another is called ___________
a pollinator
What is the temperate zone?
An area where the temperature rarely gets very hot or very cold, many different organisms live here
What is an adaptation? Give me three examples where it is found in nature
-Lion has claws and big teeth to catch its prey
-Giraffe has a long neck to reach the leaves on tall trees
-Pointed ends on leaves in the rainforest so the extra water can drip off.
What is the difference between mimicry and camouflage?
Mimicry is an adaptation where an animal LOOKS LIKE another animal (owl and owl butterflies)
Camouflage is the physical appearance of an animal that helps it blend in with its surroundings (chameleon)
What would happen if all the squirrels in a forest die?
The animals that depend on the squirrels for food would be affected and maybe even die
An organism that makes its own food is called what?
A producer
What are the six traits of living things?
Energy, nutrients, air, shelter, water, reproduction