Competition among living things
Adaptations for Survival
Adaptations for Survival (2)
Changing Ecosystems
Vocabulary
100
Desert plants compete for...
What is water?
100
A honeycreeper's beak is an example of
What is an adaptation?
100
The wool of a lamb is an adaptations because
What is it keeps the lamb warm?
100
An organism may respond to a change in its habitat by ___________________ , or learning to live in its new environment.
What is adjusting?
100
An organism that has very few of its kind left
What is endangered?
200
The most common type of forest in the United States
What is the temperate forest?
200
A giraffe's long neck is an adaptation because
What is it helps the giraffe find food in high places?
200
Adaptations for a frog are
What are sticky tongue and powerful legs?
200
Three things that can cause changes in habitats
What are volcanic eruption, flood, drought, fires, earthquakes, or storms?
200
An adaptation that allows an organism to blend in with its environment
What is camouflage?
300
Organisms share and compete for
What is space, water, food, and oxygen
300
A white rabbit blending in with the snow and a brown rabbit matching their forest habitat are examples of
What is camouflage?
300
An environment that is a cold, dry place
What is a tundra?
300
The three ways organisms may respond to a change in their habitats
What are adjust, perish, or relocate?
300
A special characteristic that helps an organism survive
What is an adaptation?
400
There are more types of organisms in the rainforest because
What is the rainforest is wetter and warmer?
400
The spots that look like eyes on the wings of the grey butterfly is an example of
What is mimicry?
400
A porcupine inflating itself into a prickly ball and a pill bug curling up are ways an animal_________________
What is defends themselves?
400
Two of the three things that have killed off many living things
What are changes in habitats, pollution, or hunting?
400
An organism that finds a new home
What is relocates?
500
An organisms niche includes
What is what an organism does, what it eats, and how it interacts with other organisms?
500
Some animals defend themselves by fighting with
What are strong claws, sharp teeth, and powerful jaws?
500
Some defenses are learned by animals, while others are learned by ___________________.
What is instinct?
500
The first step in the process of a forest coming back after a fire
What is Bulbs and seeds may survive underground. They begin to grow in the ash?
500
Looking like another organism is
What is mimicry?
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