Key Terms
This is the name for a place where a species or community of species live.
What is a habitat?
This is the term for a species in a food chain that makes its own food, with energy from the sun and nutrients from the soil.
What is a producer?
This body system includes our muscles, bones and gives our body structure & support.
What is the musculoskeletal system
List three components of the digestive system.
What is stomach, small intestine, large intestine.
This species is a living thing that is brought to a new habitat, often causing damage to the new environment.
What is an invasive species?
An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
What is an organism?
This type of organism only eats producers.
What is a primary consumer (or herbivore)
This body system carries oxygen-rich blood and nutrients throughout the body.
What is the circulatory system?
What is the nervous system responsible for?
What is sending and receiving messages to and from the brain.
These are the 5 types of vertebrates.
What are mammals, birds, amphibians, fish, and reptiles?
This is the term for a group of the same organism.
What is a species?
This type of organism will eat primary consumers. Example: a snake eats mice (a primary consumer)
What is a secondary consumer?
The lungs inhale air and exhale _________
What is carbon dioxide?
______ is another word for high blood pressure.
What is hypertension?
Any type of plant or animal in danger of disappearing forever.
What is an endangered species?
This is the term for the diversity (many different kinds) of living things in a given area.
What is biodiversity?
Shows how living things get food and how nutrients are passed from species to species.
What is a food chain?
How many bones are in the human body?
What is 206?
_____ is the main cause of lung cancer.
What is smoking?
The biological variation that occurs within species. It is important because it allows organisms to adapt to changing environments. More variation increases the chances of the species survival in a new environment.
What is genetic diversity?
What is sustainable agriculture?
Sustainable agriculture is the production of crops or livestock in a manner that limits the impact on the environment. Examples: Limiting the use of chemicals (ie. pesticides) and planting a variety of crop species.
Bacteria and fungi are both examples of this type of organism.
What are decomposers?
______ is a disease that causes swelling and pain in the joints.
What is arthritis?
What is the main organ in the circulatory system
What is the heart?
Human activity has led to a decrease in biodiversity.
These two activities are the main causes of biodiversity loss.
What are the habitat destruction and pollution?