Habitats
This is a place where plants and animals live and get everything they need to survive.
What is a habitat?
An ecosystem is made up of these two types of things.
What are living and non-living things?
This is the first stage in a plant’s life cycle.
What is a seed?
A food chain always begins with this type of organism, which makes its own food using sunlight.
What is a plant (or producer)?
This word describes the special changes animals have that help them survive in their habitats.
What are adaptations?
This type of habitat is dry and has very little rain, with plants like cacti.
What is a desert?
In an ecosystem, this non-living thing provides energy for plants to grow.
What is sunlight?
This stage in a butterfly’s life cycle is after is hatches from an egg.
What is the larva/caterpillar stage?
In a food chain, this animal eats plants, like a rabbit eating grass.
What is an herbivore?
Camels have this adaptation, which stores fat to help them survive in the desert.
What is a hump?
This is a habitat where trees lose their leaves in the fall, and animals like squirrels and deer live.
What is a forest?
In a forest ecosystem, this animal might eat berries and be eaten by a wolf.
What is a rabbit?
This word describes the process of a seed starting to grow into a new plant.
What is germination/sprouting?
This animal is an example of a predator in a forest food chain.
What is a wolf (or another top predator)?
This adaptation helps a giraffe reach food high up in trees.
What is a long neck?
This cold habitat is home to polar bears and penguins.
What is the Arctic?
This word describes all of the living things in an ecosystem, like animals, plants, and fungi.
What is a community?
After the caterpillar stage, this stage happens when the butterfly is inside a chrysalis.
What is the pupa/cocoon stage?
This type of living thing, such as a mushroom, breaks down dead plants and animals to return nutrients to the soil.
What is a decomposer?
This animal uses its ability to change colors to hide from predators.
What is a chameleon?
This habitat is covered in water and home to fish, frogs, and water lilies
What is a pond?
These two non-living things, found in all ecosystems, are necessary for plants to grow.
What are water and soil?
This part of the plant’s life cycle is when flowers are formed, and pollination can occur.
What is reproduction?
In a food chain, energy flows from this organism, which eats both plants and animals, like a bear.
What is an omnivore?
This adaptation helps arctic animals like polar bears stay warm in freezing temperatures.
What is thick fur (or blubber)?