Life Science MIX
This refers to a change in body form, during animal's growth and development.
What is metamorphosis?
This is a characteristic that is passed down from parents to their offspring, such as body covering or eye color.
What is an inherited trait.
One type of organism
What is a species?
Plants are part of this type of organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
Mushroom and earthworms are part of this group of consumers that breaks down the remains of dead plants and animals.
What is a decomposer?
The stages of this are egg, nymph, and adult.
What is incomplete metamorphosis?
This is a body part that does a certain job for an organism.
What is a structure or physical feature?
Members of the same species, that live together in the same habitat at the same time
What is a population?
This type of organism eats other organisms to get food energy.
What is a consumer?
This is an organism that hunts, catches, and eats other animals.
What is a predator?
The stages of this life cycle are egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
What is complete metamorphosis?
This refers to an animal's natural response to a stimulus
What is an instinctive behavior (or instinct)?
Different populations, of different species, that share the same habitat make up one of these.
What is a community?
List the different types of consumers
What is an herbivore, carnivore, and omnivore?
These are animals that are hunted, caught, and eaten by another animal.
What is a prey?
This is an adaptation in which an organism can make itself look like another organism
What is mimicry?
This adaptive function is when an animal, like a butterfly or whale, travels a long distance to find resources needed to survive.
What is a migration?
All the living and nonliving things, that interact with each other in an environment, make up one of these.
What is an ecosystem?
Explain the process in which plants can produce their own food.
Photosynthesis is when ......
Labels like producer or consumer; herbivore, carnivore, omnivore; predator or prey are all part of the role that an organism plays in its habitat.
What is a niche?
Physical or behavioral adaptation: This is an adaptation an organism does to survive
What is a behavioral adaptation?
Bears are famous for this adaptation, in which they sleep for a long period of time, like winter.
What is hibernation?
A very large area of land, with a certain type of climate, and certain types of organisms make up one of these.
What is a biome?
The difference between a food chain and a food web
A food chain has only one path of energy while a food web has several paths of energy because of the overlapping food chains.
Vultures and hyena are examples of a type of animal that gets food by eating the scraps left behind by a predator.
What is a scavenger?