Life Science MIX
Organism Traits
Ecosystems
Food Chains and Webs 1
Food Chains and Webs 2
100

This stage in metamorphosis is like the seed stage of a plant.

What is the egg stage?

100

This is a plant's response to colder temperatures and less sunlight during winter.  The plant drops its leaves and temporarily stops growing.

What is dormancy.

100

Organisms in this ecosystem may have long roots, big ears, and brow or tan fur to survive.

What is a desert?

100
Plants are part of this type of organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
100

Mushroom and earthworms are part of this group of organisms that breaks down the remains of dead plants and animals.

What is a decomposer?

200
The stages of this are egg, nymph, and adult.
What is incomplete metamorphosis?
200

A waxy coating on leaves will help a plant survive in these ecosystems that have very little water.

A desert and a tundra.

It also helps in a rainforest, but the question said, "very little water."

200

Organisms in this ecosystem may have bright colors, large leaves, long stems or a waxy coating to help them survive.

What is a rainforest?

200
This type of organism eats other organisms to get food energy.
What is a consumer?
200
This is a carnivore that hunts, catches, and eats other animals.
What is a predator?
300
The stages of this life cycle are egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
What is complete metamorphosis?
300

This refers to an animal's natural response to a stimulus.  Animals are born knowing how to do these behaviors.

What is an instinctive behavior (or instinct)?

300

Organisms in this ecosystem may have small ears, light fur, dark colors, short stems, long shallow roots, furry coverings and waxy leaves to survive.

What is an arctic tundra?

300
Rabbits and mice are examples of this type of organism that eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
300
These are animals that are hunted, caught, and eaten by another animal.
What is a prey?
400

This part of the plant contains the seeds for the next generation.

What is fruit?

400

This adaptive function is when an animal, like a butterfly or whale, travels a long distance to find resources needed to survive in response to seasonal changes.

What is a migration?

400

All the biotic and abiotic things, that interact with each other in an environment, make up one of these.

What is an ecosystem?

400
Lions, Tigers, and Killer Whales are examples of this type of consumer that eats only meat.
What is a carnivore?
400

The feeding relationship between organisms that creates one path of energy in an ecosystem.  

What is a food chain?

500

In this type of metamorphosis the younger organism looks very similar to the adult.

What is incomplete metamorphosis?

500
Bears are famous for this adaptation, in which they sleep for a long period of time, like winter.
What is hibernation?
500

The place or environment an organism normally lives is this. 

What is a habitat? 

500

Humans and bears are examples of this type of consumer that eats both plants and animals.

What is an omnivore?

500

A system of interconnected food chains is this.

What is a food web?

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