Recycling the Dead
Food Chains and Webs
Adaptations
Ecosystems
Wild Card
100
Animal that feeds on the remains of dead animals.
What is a scavenger?
100
True or False: Food webs are made up of 1 or more food chains?
What is False?
100
Type of behavior that allows an animal to save energy in a deep sleep.
What is hibernation?
100
Living and nonliving things that interact is called this.
What is an ecosystem?
100
This type of animal only eats plants.
What is an herbivore?
200
Three examples of scavengers.
What are racoons, vultures, hyenas, or crabs.
200
path of food energy from the sun to plants to animals.
What is a food chain?
200
Camouflage and mimicry are this type of adaptation.
What is a physical adaptation?
200
Everything that surrounds a plant or an animal.
What is an environment?
200
Breaking down of materials on their own is called this.
What is decay?
300
Living thing that breaks down the remains of dead organisms.
What are decomposers?
300
This is the largest part of the food chain that provides energy for consumers.
What are producers?
300
This physical adaptation allows an animal to protect itself by looking like another object or animal.
What is mimicry?
300
One type of animal or plant.
What is an individual?
300
When an animal is taken out of the food chain this happens to its predator's population.
What is a decrease in population?
400
Types of animal that help keep our environment clean from dead plants or animals.
What are scavengers?
400
Racoons eat berries and fish which make them this type of animal.
What is an omnivore?
400
physical feature of behavior that helps an animal or plant survive.
What is an adaptation?
400
Type of ecosystem found near the equator which has lots of sunlight and rain.
What is a rainforest?
400
This happens to the population of producers or prey that an animal eats when that animal is taken out of the food chain.
What is an increase in a population?
500
These animals provide nutrients to the soil.
What is a decomposer?
500
Give four organisms that can make up a food chain.
What is grass, deer, coyote, and hawks or other acceptable answers.
500
Two features of a deer's fur that allow it to camouflage in a forest.
What are brown fur and light spots?
500
This ecosystem has ling cold winters and short cool summers.
What is the Taiga?
500
These two factors cause decay to occur at a faster rate.
What is a warm, wet ecosystem.
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