Science Vocabulary
Energy Transfer
Scary Skeleton
Exciting Environment
Random
100

Any living thing, including plants and animals.

Organism

100

Energy passes through each living organism through this.

Food Chain or Food Web


100

List 5 vertebrates

Answers will vary

100

This is sorting things in groups based on similar characteristics. 

Classification

100

This eats only meat

Carnivore

200

A non-living thing and living thing in an ecosystem.

Abiotic and biotic
200

ALL food chains begin with this.

Sun

200

List 5 invertebrates

Answers will vary.

200

Describe one adaptation of a toad.

Camouflaged, can hop, top side is poisonous

200

This gets it energy from sun and water.

Producer

300

Everything that surrounds and affects and organism (another name for a habitat or biome)

Environment/Ecosystem

300

Describe a decomposer (Hint: it is at the very end of the food chain)

It breaks down dead things into soil. 

300

True or False. All reptiles, fish, mammals, and birds are vertebrates.

True

300

A cheetah is part of the animal kingdom. Describe it with at least 3 groups. 

Biotic, mammal, animal, vertebrate, carnivore

300

This eats both plants and animals.

Omnivore

400

Name two living factors that affect a painted turtle.

Worms, algae, snapping turtles, hawks, etc.

400

Create a food chain for a sunfish in Lake Minnewaska. 

Sun - algae - sunfish-human

400

What is the hard "shell" called in some invertebrates.

Exoskeleton

400

Name 3 adaptations of a red-tailed hawk.

Talons, eye sight, feathers, camouflaged 

400

Name the 6 types of animals classification

Mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, insects and amphibians

500

Name two non-living factors that affect Timmy the turtle.

Water, light, rocks, soil, etc.

500

Create a food chain for a wood duck. 

Sun - algae/plant -Wood duck Fox - Hawk - Fungi

500

Describe the function of the exoskeleton (spiders, beetles, grasshoppers and other invertebrates have these).

To protect and support it. 

500

Becoming better suited for your environment is this.

Adaptation

500

What do all food chains start with????? 

Sun!!!!!

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