Habitats and Communities

Types of Habitats

100

_____________ areas in which the vegetation is dominated by a nearly continuous cover of grasses.

Grasslands

200

______________ is a large, extremely dry area of land with sparse vegetation. It is one of Earth’s major types of ecosystems, supporting a community of distinctive plants and animals specially adapted to the harsh environment.

Desert

300

___________ is known for large stretches of bare ground and rock and for patchy mantles of low vegetation such as mosses, lichens, herbs, and small shrubs. This surface supports a meagre but unique variety of animals. It is found north of the Article Cirle

Tundra

400

_____________ is luxuriant forest, generally composed of tall, broad-leaved trees and usually found in wet tropical uplands and lowlands around the Equator.

Rainforest

500

_________ is a complex ecosystem characterized by flooding or saturation of the soil, which creates low-oxygen environments that favour a specialized assemblage of plants, animals, and microbes, which exhibit adaptations designed to tolerate periods of sluggishly moving or standing water.

Wetlands

Definitions

100

Is a home for living things or animals. 

Habitat

200

Habitats provide 4 things

Food, Shelter, Water, and Space

300

This is a living thing that does not eat or consumer other plants or animals

Producer

400

This is a plant or animal that eats other animals or plants

Consumers

500

Plants do this to turn sunlight into food

Photosynthesis

Definitions 2

100

This is an animal that is being hunted

Prey

200

This is an animal that hunts other animals for food. 

Predator

300

This is an animal that eats both plans and animals

Omnivore

400

This is an animal that eats only meat

Carnivore

500

This is an animal that only eats plants

Herbivore

Animal Types

100

A human is a type of ______________

Omnivore

200

A lion is an example of a __________

Carnivore

300

Trees are an example of ____________

Producer

400

This is a list of what living things feed others. 

Food Chain

500

This is a living thing that breaks down things that are no longer living

Decomposer

Animal Types 2

100

Ducks are an example of ________

herbivores

200

Whales live in what type of habitat

_______________

300

a cactus can be found in what habitat

Desert

400

Ducks live in what habitat?

Ponds

500

mushrooms or fungus are a type of __________

decomposer