Basic concepts
This term refers to any living thing, including plants and animals.
What is an organism?
The natural environment where an organism lives and grows.
What is a habitat?
The process by which plants use sunlight, water, and air to make their food.
What is photosynthesis?
The fundamental unit of life that makes up all living organisms.
What is a cell?
This term refers to the variety of life in a particular ecosystem or on Earth as a whole.
What is biodiversity?
Species change over long periods due to this process.
What is evolution?
The process by which organisms produce new individuals.
What is reproduction?
A series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
What is a food chain?
Everything around a living thing, including both living and non-living components.
What is the environment?
Changes in organisms that enhance their survival in specific environments.
What is adaptation?
An example of this ecological concept includes trees, animals, soil, water, and air.
What is an ecosystem?
An example of this process can be seen in how birds evolved from ancient dinosaurs.
What is evolution?
This term describes the community of living organisms interacting with their environment.
What is an ecosystem?
This term describes the number of the same type of organism living in a specific area.
What is a population?
This process releases oxygen as a byproduct while making food for plants.
What is photosynthesis?