Definitions
Where the living and nonliving things of an environment interact.
What is an ecosystem?
What is an animal that eats only plants?
Herbivores
Is a food chain or a food web bigger?
A food web is bigger.
What is a biotic factor?
A living thing
What is a behavioral adaptation?
An action an animal does to help it survive.
The natural home or environment of a plant, animal, or organism.
What is a habitat?
What does an omnivore eat?
Plants and meat
What is a food chain?
The way food/energy passes from one organism to another in a community.
What is an abiotic factor?
A nonliving thing
What is a physical adaptation?
A feature of an animal's body to help it survive.
Actions that an animal takes to help it survive.
Behavioral Adaptation
What is a decomposer?
An animal that breaks down dead organisms that fall to the ground.
True or False.
A food chain is a system of multiple food webs.
If it is false, correct the statement.
False.
A food web is a system of multiple food chains.
What do all living and nonliving things make up?
An ecosystem
A panda has strong jaw muscles to break down bamboo to eat it.
Is this a physical or behavioral adaptation?
Physical Adaptation.
Physical Adaptations
What is a producer?
An organism that makes its own food.
What does a food chain always start with?
The sun
True or False.
Grass is an abiotic factor in an ecosystem.
Correct the statement if it is false.
False.
Grass is a biotic factor in an ecosystem.
Tigers often move into areas of dense vegetation because that is where their prey lives.
Is this a behavioral or physical adaptation?
Behavioral Adaptation
The study of the relationships between organisms and their environment, and the balances between those relationships.
What is ecology?
What is the difference between a predator and prey?
A predator is an animal that hunts other living things to eat. A prey is what an animal eats for energy.
What are the components of a food chain?
The sun, producer, consumers, decomposer.
Which of the following includes a living and nonliving thing?
A. Moss on a rock
B. A stick on the dirt
C. A worm on a fish
A. Moss on a rock
A giraffe's height allows them to reach tall vegetation to feed on.
Is this a physical or behavioral adaptation?
Physical adaptation