Living and Nonliving things
Relationships among Living Things
Competition
Adaptations
Habitat Change
100
This is another name for a living thing.
What is an organism?
100
All living and nonliving things that surround an animal.
What is an environment?
100
Animals sometimes do this when there is not enough of a resource for all the organisms that need it.
What is compete?
100
These 2 adaptations help animals to survive.
What are body parts and behaviors?
100
An animal's home is called this.
What is habitat?
200
This is a living thing's home.
What is a habitat?
200
This is where organisms need each other and nonliving things to survive.
What is an ecosystem?
200
The job or role an animal has in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
200
Organisms with better adaptations are more likely to do this than others of their kind in places where its hard to live.
What is survive?
200
Fire and floods can cause habitats to do this.
What is change?
300
Describe the life cycle of a butterfly.
There are 4 stages of complete metamorphosis: egg, larva, pupa, an adult.
300
Organisms compete for this when they live in the same ecosystem and have the same needs.
What are resources?
300
A thing found in nature that is useful to organisms.
What is a resource?
300
Describe how a hummingbird's beak is adapted to eat.
Its long, thin design allows it to slide into the flower and drink its nectar.
300
Any harmful material in the environment such as an oil spill is called this.
What is pollution?
400
Name at least 2 characteristics of living things.
What are grow, change, reproduce, and have cells.
400
This makes up all the people in your family, school, and neighborhood.
What is a population?
400
Name at least 3 important resources for organisms.
What are food, water, shelter, and air?
400
A paramecium's special, "cilly" adaptations that help it move are called this?
What is cillia?
400
Sometimes a change that is bad for some organisms can be this for others animals.
What is good.
500
How can we learn about a tree's life by observing its growth rings?
The age of the tree, if it grew on a hill or slope, if there was a drought, and if it experienced a fire.
500
This is a series of organisms that depend on one another for food.
What is a food chain?
500
A group of plants and animals that live in the same area and interact with each other.
What is a community?
500
Animals that look like other animals for protection is called this.
What is mimicry?
500
The sea turtle is able to survive the long journey from nest to sea because of these.
What is helping hands?
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