Vocab
What word means having a backbone?
Vertebrate
- backbone, wings, lay eggs, light hollow bones, and feathers
Birds
I provide energy to the start of all food chains and ecosystems. Plants rely on me for their food!
The sun.
I am the water based biome. I may have fresh or salt water.
Aquatic Biome
When mammals are born, do they have the same or different physical features as their parents/adults?
Same.
Adapt/Adaptation
Our phylum has the following:
-live birth, hair/fur, warm blooded, and nurse from the mother
Mammals
Why are plants so vital to a food chain/web?
Producers, provide energy for the consumers.
I can be very hot or very cold. There is little to no rain here. Only special types of plants and animals can live here to survive my harsh conditions.
Desert Biome
How does an amphibians ability to breathe change as they mature?
Transition from having gills to lungs.
What is the scientific term for the traits/qualities that make living things uniques?
Characteristics
Our phylum is:
- cold blooded, undergoes metamorphosis, webbed feet, can live in water and land
Amphibians
What is the name of the living things who break down dead plants and animals? They provide rich nutrients for the soil.
Decomposers.
I am a very COLD biome. I barely have any trees and most plants that grow here need to be seedless.
Tundra Biome
What is the process called of animals who change physical appearances/features over different stages of their lives?
Metamorphosis
What word means an animal that consumes an animal that is already dead? Before the decomposers get to it.
Scavenger
Our phylum has the following:
- no backbone, segmented bodies, molt our skin at least once, and have advanced sensory organs
Arthropods
A living creature that cannot make its own food and must eat another living thing is called a ____?
Consumer
I can have a mix of climates (warm, mild, or cold). I have different types of plants, tress, and wildlife. You live in this biome!
Forest Biomes (Tropical, Temperate, Tiaga)
1. Egg
2. Larva (Caterpillar)
3. Pupa (Chrysalis)
4. Adult (Butterfly)
A community of living organisms interacting with living and non-living things is called a/an?
Ecosystem
Our phylum has the following:
- Spiny/spiky skin, no backbone, sucker systems, radial symmetry, and can regenerate limbs
Echinoderms
What is the title given to the top consumer of the food chain/web?
Apex predator
I am the big, open biome. I do not have many bushes or trees. I get more rain than deserts, but less rain than forests.
Grassland Biomes
What phylum of vertebrates is the only one to undergo metamorphosis?
Amphibians