Living/Nonliving
Adaptations
Ecosystems
General
Make you Think
100

Any living thing

What is an organism

100

What is an adaptation?

What is a physical feature or action that animals have or do to help them survive in their environment.

100
What is the smallest group in an ecosystem
What is an organism
100

1. An _____________________________ is an animal that eats only plants or plant products.

Herbivore

100

Ways animals or animals act or how their body changes to help them survive in their environment

What are adaptations

200

Which is nonliving? A squirrel, two raccoons, a snake, a rock, a palm tree

What is a rock

200
How do humans "adapt"
What is clothes for different seasons, acting in school differently than recess, etc.
200
Describe a population
What is all of one kind of a species that lives in an ecosystem
200

2. A diagram that shows how much energy transfers to the next level in a food chain is called an __________________________.

Energy Pyramid

200

This biome is located on the poles of the globe and the community is made up of penguins, permafrost, and birds

What is the Arctic

300
Which of the following is an example of a living thing: a feather, water, a beetle, rocks, a waterfall
What is a beetle
300
What are two examples of how animals adapt to cold weather?
What is hibernating, gathering food, getting a thick coat of fur, black skin, etc.
300
Describe what would make up the community of coral reef
What is clown fish, jelly fish, seaweed, etc.
300

3. All interactions that occur between biotic and abiotic factors within an environment make up an __________________________.

Ecosystem

300

Which state, in the United States, is covered mostly by desert?

What is Arizona

400
Three of the signs of life of living things
What are moving, growing and changing, responding, needing food, and getting rid of waste.
400
What are two ways plants adapt to living in the rainforest?
What is growing quickly, growing tall, needing a lot of water, being poisonous, etc.
400

Describe the difference between a habitat and a community

A habitat is the physical place where an organism lives, providing food, water, and shelter, while a community is all the different populations (species) of living things (plants, animals, microbes) that interact within that habitat, forming a complex web of relationships. Think

400

4. ____________________ are organisms such as bacteria and fungi that break down dead organisms and organic waste.

Decomposers

400

6.Overlapping food chains with different pathways are called _________________________.

Food Web

500
In order to survive, all living things need:
What is space, shelter, air (oxygen), food, and water
500
Two types of adaptations
What is physical and behavioral
500
Describe an ecosystem
What is an area of land and all the living and nonliving things that interact within it.
500

Biodiversity contributes to the sustainability of an ecosystem because____________

The flow of energy in an ecosystem remains constant

500

7. _______________________ are organisms that transform energy from the Sun and use carbon dioxide and water to make food.

Producers

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