A woodpecker has a long, thin beak to help them catch insects in a tree.
What is an example of a structural adaptation?
100
Where an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
200
Many food chains consisting of multiple producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
200
A living thing that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
200
An animal that only eats plants.
What is an herbivore?
200
A mother bear is typically not aggressive, but she will attack to protect her young.
What is an example of a behavioral adaptation?
200
This provides the energy needed to transfer the energy through a food chain.
What is the sun?
300
Grass takes energy from the sun to produce food. Rabbits eat the grass. A snake eats the rabbit. A hawk then swoops in to eat the snake.When the hawk dies, fungus breaks down its body and returns nutrients back to the soil.
What is a food chain.
300
The role an organism plays in a community.
What is a niche?
300
An animal that eats both plants and meat.
What is an omnivore?
300
Physical attributes that help an organism meet life's needs.
What is a structural adaptation?
300
Eggs hatch into tadpoles. The tadpole grows into a froglet as it grows small back legs and it's tail shrinks. The froglet grows front legs and loses its tail completely as it becomes an adult frog. The adult frog lays eggs, and the process repeats.
What is the life cycle of a frog?
400
In the ocean small fish eat plants like algae and sea weed. The small fish are eaten by larger fish, seal, penguins, and dolphins. Killer whales eat the larger fish and the penguins. Bacteria breaks down animals once they die and put nutrients back into the water.
What is a food web?
400
All the groups of plants and animals living in a specific area.
What is a community?
400
Giraffe, cow, rabbit, mouse, cricket, and caterpillar.
What are examples of herbivores?
400
An adaptation where creatures blend in to their surroundings to become more difficult to be seen.
What is camouflage?
400
Types of activities organisms do to help them meet a life need. Sometimes are learned and some are instinctive.
What is behavioral adaptation?
500
The _________________make up the bottom layer of an energy pyramid.
What is a producer?
500
Decomposer
What is a living thing that eats or breaks down dead organisms?
500
Bear, human, pig, and a raccoon.
What are examples of omnivores?
500
Physical attributes that make an animal look bigger, or more dangerous, to keep them safe from predators. (Example: A butterfly has fake "eyes" to make them look like the face of a large owl.)