Habitats
What is the place where a plant or animal lives called?
What is a habitat?
All living things need this to grow and survive.
What is water?
A simple model that shows how energy moves from one living thing to another.
What is a food chain?
A special feature that helps an animal survive in its environment.
What are adaptations?
A living thing that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
This habitat is mostly water and home to fish and frogs.
What is a pond or freshwater habitat?
Plants need water, sunlight, and this from the air.
What is carbon dioxide?
Plants are called this because they make their own food.
What are producers?
Camouflage helps animals do this.
What is hide from predators?
An animal that helps spread seeds or pollen.
What is a pollinator?
Name a habitat that is hot and dry with very little water.
What is a desert?
Without this, animals can’t breathe.
What is oxygen?
This animal eats plants in a food chain.
What are herbivores?
A long neck on a giraffe helps it reach this.
What are tall trees or leaves?
This breaks down dead plants and animals and returns nutrients to soil.
What are decomposers?
A forest, grassland, and desert are all types of this.
What are ecosystems?
This helps plants make food.
What is sunlight?
An animal that eats other animals is called this.
What are carnivores?
Thick fur on a polar bear helps it stay this.
What is warm?
Name one example of a pollinator.
What is a bee (or butterfly)?
This habitat has freezing temperatures and is home to polar bears and penguins.
What is a polar or Arctic/Antarctic habitat?
Name two things every animal needs to live.
What are food and shelter? (and water)
In a food chain, this gets energy second after a plant.
What is a primary consumer?
How does a cactus conserve water in the desert?
What is by having thick skin and spines to reduce water loss?
Why are scavengers important in an environment?
They clean up dead material and recycle nutrients back into the ecosystem.