Animal Adaptations
This adaptation impacts activity and allows some desert animals to avoid daytime heat.
What is nocturnal behavior?
This type of pollution is the reason it's difficult to see stars in many urban areas.
What is light pollution?
These organisms produce their own food using sunlight.
What are producers/autotrophs?
This bear survives mostly on bamboo despite being a carnivore.
What is a giant panda?
This ecosystem supports over 25% of all marine life.
What are coral reefs?
This desert animal has very large ears that help release body heat.
What is a fennec fox?
This is the Earth's longest river in length, spanning over 4,250 miles.
What is the Nile River?
These organisms break down dead material and recycle nutrients.
What are decomposers?
This marine mammal uses echolocation to navigate and hunt.
What are toothed whales (dolphins, orcas, porpoises)
This ecosystem exists where freshwater meets saltwater and acts as a nursery for many marine species.
What is an estuary?
This adaptation helps ducks and otters stay warm and dry in cold water.
What are waterproof feathers/fur?
Only this percentage of Earth's water is safe for human consumption.
What is 1 percent?
The third trophic level in a food chain is referred to as what?
What are secondary consumers?
This insect undergoes complete metamorphosis and migrates thousands of miles in North America.
What is a monarch butterfly?
This is the world's largest biome, covering roughly 17% of the Earth's land surface area.
What is the Taiga/boreal forest?
This deep-sea adaptation allows animals to produce light through chemical reactions.
What is bioluminescence?
This bird is considered to be the largest living flying bird, weighing up to 33 pounds with a wingspan of over 10.5 feet.
What is the Andean Condor?
The maximum number of energy transfers in most food chains is limited because energy is lost as this.
What is heat?
This marine mammal is known for its long spiral tusk, which is actually an enlarged tooth.
What is a narwhal?
This process occurs when an ecosystem gradually changes over time, such as when grassland slowly becomes forest.
What is ecological succession?
This animal changes the color of its fur during the winter for camouflage.
What is the Arctic Fox/Snowshoe Hare
This predator has been around for over 400 to 500 million years, which is even longer than trees.
What are sharks?
This concept describes the buildup of toxins at higher trophic levels.
What is biomagnification?
This egg-laying mammal defies almost all rules of traditional mammal species.
What is a platypus?
This ecosystem is able to store large amounts of carbon because decomposition occurs very slowly in waterlogged soils.
What are wetlands?