Classification
This type of animal has fur or hair.
What is a mammal?
When animals can use their coloring to blend in to their surroundings to keep them safe from predators.
What is camouflage?
This habitat is very cold and has smaller trees and shrubs in the summer. It is covered with ice and snow much of the winter.
What is the Arctic (or tundra)?
An organism that produces its own food.
What is a producer?
An animal that eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
This type of animal has wings, feathers, and hollow bones.
What is a bird?
When animals travel to far away places to find food, like a duck flying south for winter.
What is migration?
This habitat is a home to many creatures who need salt water to stay alive.
What is the ocean?
An organism that eats producers.
What is a primary consumer?
An animal that eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
This type of animal has dry, scaly skin.
What is a reptile?
When an animal spends the winter in a deep sleep so that not much food is needed.
What is hibernation?
This habitat has many trees, plants and many animals that make their home there. It usually sees all kinds of weather (the four seasons) and many trees lose their leaves in the winter.
What is the forest?
An organism that eats other animals.
What is a secondary consumer?
An animal that eats both plants and meat.
What is an omnivore?
This type of animal starts its life in the water with gills and then develops lungs to live on land.
What is an amphibian?
Behaviors that animals are born knowing how to do
What are instincts?
This habitat gets rain almost every day. It is the home to many plants and animals.
What is the rainforest?
The animal that is being hunted.
What is prey?
What do blue whales eat?
Krill
Animals with a backbone.
What are vertebrates?
The most adaptable organism on earth
What is the water bear (Tardigrade)?
This habitat gets very little rain and is usually very hot during the day.
What is the desert?
An animal that hunts for its food.
What is a predator?
What do fungi eat?
Dead plants and animals