Vocabulary A
The environment where living and non-living interact.
An Ecosystem
This vocabulary word means "to spend the winter in a deep sleep."
Hibernation
A type of ecosystem that is hot and dry. Animals and plants that live here need very little water.
Desert
Name an animal that uses camouflage for hide from predators or prey.
Zebras, leopards, chameleons
All plants are these, because they make their own food.
Producers
This shows how energy passes from one organism to another in an ecosystem.
Food chain
The way an animal looks that helps it hide from other animals.
camouflage
This type of ecosystem requires animals to have a very thick coat of fur and feet that can travel on ice and snow.
What is and Arctic Ecosystem
Give an example of an animal that hibernates in the winter.
Bears, snakes, bats, hedgehogs
All animals are this because they find their own food.
Consumers
An organism that breaks down dead plant and animal material.
Decomposer
Animals that hunt other animals for food.
Predators
This ecosystem is very hot and humid. There are more types of plants and trees in this ecosystem because it rains so often.
The Rain Forest Ecosystem.
Porcupines have this type of adaptation for protection from predators.
Quills, like needles, on their backs
All consumers that eat only plants, like rabbits
Herbivores
Name on reason decomposers are important.
They feed on dead material.
They release nutrients into the water or soil that help plants and other organisms grow.
Animals that get hunted by other animals.
Prey
This ecosystem is where plants and animals can survive in salt water.
The ocean ecosystem
Birds
All consumers that eat only meat, like a tiger.
Carnivores
A trait that helps a plant or animal survive changes to the ecosystem it lives in.
Adaptation
When animals move to a far away place during seasonal changes.
Migration
This ecosystem has lots of trees. It can be found on mountains, hills, or valleys. Many types of animals like bears and foxes can be found in this ecosystem.
The forest ecosystem.
Some animals are able to "copy" the looks of similar animals, dangerous as an adaptation to keep it safe from predators.
All consumers that eat both plants and animals, like people.
Omnivores