General
This is the physical place and includes all the non-living organisms.
What is the biotope?
A group of lions is an example.
What is a family?
Oxpeckers (bird) feed on the ticks (insects) on a rhino.
What is mutualism?
These are physical or structural adaptations to help a living organism survive in its environment.
What are anatomical adaptations?
Using a plastic water bottle several times.
What is reusing?
All the living organisms and non-living things in a specific place, and the relationships between them.
What is an ecosystem?
A colony of bees is an example.
What is a society?
A cuckoo kicks the warbler's eggs out of its nest and replaces them with her own eggs.
What is parasitism?
These are the things or actions living organisms do to survive in their environment.
What are behavioral adaptations?
When a species is in danger of disappearing.
What is extinction?
These are the living organisms in an ecosystem and include different species.
What is biocenosis?
A pack of wolves is an example.
What is a family?
A gazelle and an ostrich eat next to eachother and both watch out for danger.
What is mutualism?
A walrus has thick blubber (skin) to help it survive in cold temperatures.
What is an anatomical adaptation?
When we cut down trees in a rainforest and lose biodiversity.
What is deforestation?
A field is an example of this type of ecosystem.
What is land?
A herd of buffalo is an example.
What is a gregarious association?
A tapeworm lives inside the digestive system of a human and feeds off its nutrients.
What is parasitism?
A male bird of paradise cleans an area and makes special calls and dances to attract females.
What are courtship displays?
The three R's we can remember to help protect our planet.
A delta is an example of this type of ecosystem.
What is mixed?
A shoal of sardines is an example.
What is a gregarious association?
Barnacles (sponges) attach themselves to whales and get access to more food and water.
What is commensalism?
A tree loses its leaves in the autumn and doesn't grow during the winter months.
What is dormancy?
Taking a used object and converting it into something new.
What is recycling?