Food Chains
What are producers?
A behavioral adaptation that is inherited by an animal. The behavior does not need to be learned.
What is an instinct?
Markings or colorings on an animal to help blend in with their environments.
What is camouflage?
When forests are removed.
What is deforestation?
Animals that hunt other animals for food energy.
What are predators?
Organisms that obtain their energy by eating other organisms.
What are consumers?
A behavioral adaptation that an animal learns through play or mimicking the actions of others.
What is a learned behavior?
A type of camouflage where animals look similar to other organisms that are more dangerous to help ward of predators.
What is mimicry?
The introduction of harmful materials to plants and animals into the environment.
What is pollution?
A model and description of how the sun's energy is transferred to producers and consumers and consumers eat other organisms.
What is a food chain?
What are herbivores?
This behavior is when animals move from one area to another to find food, water, to avoid the cold or to reproduce.
What is migration?
Outward, observable traits such as body structures found on organisms that are caused by genetics or the environment.
What are physical characteristics?
A non-native organism that is introduced to an environment and causes harm.
What is an invasive species?
A physical adaptation that helps both predators and prey blend in with their environments.
What is camouflage?
Organisms that only eat meat for energy.
What are carnivores?
This behavior is an instinct where animals slow their metabolism and use little resources to survive seasons when there is little food available. Typically, the behavior occurs in burrows or dens.
What is hibernation?
A change which allows an organism to become better suited to its environment to increase its chance of survival.
What is an adaptation?
The interaction between organisms that use the same limited resources such as food, water, sunlight or space.
What is competition?
The primary source of energy in all food chains.
What is the sun?
Organisms that can eat both plant and animal matter to obtain energy.
What are omnivores?
What is denning?
Animals that are consumed by other animals for energy.
What is prey?
A community of living organisms that interacts with their environment and reaches a balance.
What is an ecosystem?
The process by which plants produce their own food.
What is photosythesis?