vocabulary
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true or false?
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Staying alive
100
What is the death of all organisms of a species?
What is extinction
100
The place where an organism lives, grows, and develops this.
What is a habitat
100
Climate change is NOT a cause of extinction.
What is false
100
Beneficial traits are passed from parents to their offspring.
What is why animals with beneficial traits are more likely to survive and reproduce. They pass these traits on to their offspring.
100
which is an example of parasitism? a bird eating insects that bother an ox a deer tick sucking blood from a dog's ear a remora eating scraps from a shark's meal an ant protecting aphids, then getting a drink from them
What is a deer tick sucking blood from a dog's ear
200
The use of less of a resource to make the supply last longer is called...
conservation
200
These hunt and eat other animals.
What are predators?
200
A volcanic eruption is a natural cause for an ecosystem to change
What is true
200
Parasites use nutrients and energy their host need to live.
What is how do some parasites harm their hosts.
200
A larva of an antlion builds a pit in dusty soil. It waits for small insects to fall into the pit, and then it eats them. What is the antlion's method of hunting an example of? parasitism succession adaptation
What is an adaptation
300
What is the relationship between different kinds of organisms called?
What is symbiosis
300
This describes what an organism does in the place where it lives.
What is a niche?
300
Driving in your car instead of walking is an example of conservation.
What is false
300
Living things do these three things in response to the changes in climate and available resources.
adapt, move or perish
300
Scientist learn this by studying fossils and rocks.
What is how Earth and species have changed?
400
What is a contest among populations that need to get a certain amount of food, water, and shelter to survive?
What is competition
400
This is what animals that are hunted and eaten by other animals are called.
What are prey?
400
An animal that only eats one type of food is at risk of becoming extinct if that food is taken away.
What is true
400
A spider builds a web in a field. The web catches grasshoppers, which the spider eats. What kind of relationship does the spider have with the grasshopper?
What is a predator-prey relationship
400
Sea anemones use their tentacles to sting their prey. However, fish like the clown fish are not harmed by the anemone's sting. They often lived around the anemone's tentacles to get protection from predators. What type of symbiosis best describes this relationship between the clown fish and the sea anemone?
What is commensalism
500
What diagram shows the complex feeding relationships between different food chains in an ecosystem?
What is a food web
500
Driving cars and adding fertilzer to lawns cause this.
What is pollution
500
Different populations in a community often compete for the same resources
true
500
what is the order in which energy flows in an ecosystem?
sun->producer->herbivore->carnivore->decomposer
500
An organism's niche includes...
What is where it lives, how it protects itself and how it reproduces.
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