BIODIVERSITY 1
Animals that hunt other animals
what is a predator?
The ability for an animal to change colors to blend into it's environment
What is camouflage?
Organisms that use energy from the Sun to make their own food through a process called photosynthesis?
What is a producer?
Consumers that only eat plants?
What is a herbivore?
sleep all winter
what is hibernation?
The path of energy as it flows from one organism to the next
What is a food chain?
One of the 3 major types of forest ecosystems, found in warmer areas with lots of rainfall and thousands of different organisms
What is tropical rain forests?
An organism that is eaten by another organism?
What is prey?
factors are living organisms that are part of an environment
What is biotic?
Consumers that eat both plants and animals?
what is an omnivore?
an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
What is an organism?
organisms that make their food using energy from the Sun.
what is a producer
DOUBLE POINT!!!
factors are the non-living factors in an environment such as temperature, light, water, soil and nutrients:
what is abiotic?
Consumers that only eat other animals
What is a carnivore?
a substance that is needed for healthy growth, development, and functioning
What is nutrients?
Seasonal movement of animals to follow food supply
What is migration?
The physical space occupied by a population?
What is habitat?
Total number of one type of living organism in a given area
What is a population?
organisms that break down dead organisms and add nutrients to the soil for plants to use.
what is a decomposer
The ability for a plant to make its own food using sunlight
What is photosynthesis?
3 things that can negatively impact biodiversity
climate change
deforestation
pollution
over hunting
invasive species
When a plant or animal changes to survive
What is adaptation?
a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular area
What is endangered?
Made up of all the populations that live in the same area?
What is a community?
An introduced species to an environment that becomes overpopulated and harms its new environment.
What is an invasive species?