Connections
The natural home or environment of an animal or plant
What is Habitat?
A feature that helps a living thing to survive
What is an Adaptation?
Behaviors that are taught
What are Learned Behaviors?
Any animal that is caught or hunted for food
What is Prey?
A group of individuals of the same species living in a particular geographic area
What is Population?
When living things travel from one place to another
What is Migration?
Behaviors animals are born knowing how to do
Any animal that gets its food by preying on other animals
A group of organisms living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common
What is Community?
Patterns, coverings, or markings that help an animal survive in its environment
The period when animals become inactive
What is Hibernation?
An animal that gets its energy from eating only plants
What is an Herbivore?
Organisms that benefit from one another
What is Mutualism?
Imitating the features of another animal to keep predators away
What is Mimicry?
A period in an animal or plant's life cycle when growth and physical activity temporarily stops
What is Dormancy?
An animal that gets its energy from eating only meat
What is a Carnivore?
One organism gains something while the other suffers
What is a Parasitic Relationship?
An animal that gets its energy from eating both plants and meat
What is an Omnivore?