Animals and other living organisms
an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
What is an organism?
The ability for a plant to make its own food using sunlight
What is Photosynthesis?
Organisms that use energy from the Sun to make their own food through a process called photosynthesis?
What is a producer?
An organism that is hunted and eaten by another organism?
What is prey?
When a plant or animal changes to survive
What is adaptation?
An animal that hunts other animals
What is a predator?
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?
The straight, linear path of energy as it flows from one organism to the next
What is a food chain?
A consumer that only eats producers.
What is a primary consumer?
The ability for an animal to change colors to blend into it's environment
What is camouflage?
An animal that is hunted and consumed by other animals
Prey
3 things that can negatively impact biodiversity
climate change
deforestation
pollution
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?
When an organism sleeps all winter.
What is hibernation?
An organism that makes its food using energy from the Sun.
What is a producer?
The physical space occupied by a population?
What is habitat?
A consumer that eat both plants and animals?
What is an omnivore?
The name given to the top predator in an ecosystem.
Apex or Tertiary Consumer
Seasonal movement of animals to follow food supply
What is migration?
Substances that organisms need for healthy growth, development, and functioning.
What are nutrients?
A species that is introduced into a new ecosystem that becomes overpopulated and harms its new environment.
What is an invasive species?
Organisms that break down dead organisms and add nutrients to the soil for plants to use.
what is a decomposer
The name given to all the populations that live in the same area.
What is a community?
what are the 3 main categories of adaptations?
What are Physiological, structural and behavioral