BIODIVERSITY 1
An animal that hunts 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?
When an organism sleeps all winter.
What is hibernation?
The straight, linear 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 hunted and eaten by another organism?
What is prey?
A consumer that only eats producers.
What is a primary consumer?
A consumer that eat both plants and animals?
What is an omnivore?
an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
What is an organism?
An organism that makes its food using energy from the Sun.
What is a producer?
DOUBLE POINT!!!
This is the main source of energy for almost all the food chains on Earth.
What is The Sun?
Consumers that only eat other animals
What is a carnivore?
Substances that organisms need for healthy growth, development, and functioning.
What are 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 could possibly become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular area.
What is endangered?
The name given to all the populations that live in the same area.
What is a community?
A species that is introduced into a new ecosystem that becomes overpopulated and harms its new environment.
What is an invasive species?