Animal Changes
Food Systems
Basic Vocab
Animals Groups
100

Rest through the cold winter

Hibernate

100

An organism that eats other organisms for food

A consumer

100

A living thing

Organism

100
Many animals of the same kind that stay together

Group

200

A color pattern that blends into the environment to hide from predators or prey

Camouflage 

200

An organism that makes its own food

A producer

200
A group of living and nonliving things and their environment

Ecosystem

200

The total number of one kind of animal living in the environment

Population

300

Why do animals migrate?

To avoid the cold winter and find food.

300

A sequence of how organisms use other organisms for food

Food web

300
The scientific study of the relationship between living things and their environment

Ecology

300

Why do animals stay in groups?

To find food, protect themselves, and raise their young.

400

A change that helps an animal survive when its environment changes

Adaptation

400

A system of connected food webs

Food chain

400

Define ecologist

Someone who studies ecosystems

400

Give an example of one kind of animal in Pennsylvania that stays in a group.

Possible answers: birds, bunnies, chipmunks

500

Is migration a bodily change or a behavioral change?

Migration is a behavioral change.

500
Write an example of a food web. Include 4 energy sources. 

The sun, a producer (plant), a consumer (herbivore), a consumer (carnivore)

500

What are two basic parts of an ecologist's job?

Study ecosystems and find ways to help them

500

Give an example of 10 animals that would live in one animal community in Pennsylvania. 

Possible answers: Deer, racoons, skunk, squirrels, chipmunks, bunnies, birds, turtles, groundhogs, turkeys, foxes, opossums, porcupines, beavers

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