Adaptations
A lion's fur helps it hide in the tall grasses of the savannah. What do we call this adaptation?
Camoflauge
This type of ecosystem has many evergreen trees.
A woodland forest.
What is a terrestrial ecosystem?
An ecosystem on land.
What do we call a group of the same kinds of animals living in the same place?
Is a fly a decomposer or a producer?
A decomposer.
A sharp beak, webbed feet and big horns. These are examples of what?
Physical Adaptations
Fresh water.
Are rabbits carnivores, herbivores, or omnivores?
Herbivores.
When a whale population swims from the ocean near Mexico to the colder waters in the north near Canada, what behavioral adaptation in this?
Migration
An animal that hunts other animals is called a....
Predator.
What is a physical adaptation of a giraffe?
Their long necks.
Are sunlight, soil, and air examples of living or nonliving parts of an ecosystem?
Nonliving.
What is the definition of "prey?"
An animal that is being hunted for food.
Which ecosystem do lizards, monkeys and toucans live in?
The rainforest ecosystem.
This type of living thing makes its own food.
A producer.
When an animal fills up on food and then finds a spot to rest for the winter, we call this...
Hibernation.
Name one of the examples of an aquatic ecosystem.
Ocean, marsh, swamp, river.
What is the source of energy in a food chain?
The sun!
A school of fish or a herd of cattle are examples of what?
Which ecosystem has little rain and very little plant life?
Desert ecosystem.
Why do some birds have webbed feet?
So they can swim in their ecosystem.
If an ecosystem changes, for example, a river dries up, what will the population of animals do?
They will adapt over time or that will move to a new place.
Are plankton and decomposers living or nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
Living.
What type of animal would a bald eagle eat?
A snake, a fish, or a small rodent.
Arrows in a food chain always point to what?
The animal doing the eating.