Vocabulary
A community of plants and animals living in a particular area.
What is an ecosystem?
The process of organizing organisms into groups based on similar characteristics.
What is classification?
A backbone.
What do vertebrate animals have in common?
I am a Robin, I eat caterpillars - I am a caterpillar, I eat rotting wood - I am a rotting log, where hungry animals can find rotting wood, bark and dead leaves. I'm tasty eating for the right critter.
Blue Jay
What is an example of a bird?
A single plant or animal. Therefore, YOU are one of these!
What is an organism?
An animal that lives by killing and eating another animal.
What is a predator?
What do birds have in common?
A platypus.
What is an example of a mammal?
A sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.
What is the food chain?
A group of organisms. Yes, humans are this. Other examples include dogs, cats, lions, and eagles.
What is a species?
Features that serve a purpose or function.
What are structures in organisms?
They use echolocation.
What do bats and dolphins have in common?
Snake
What is an example of a reptile?
Appearance, habitat and structures.
How are organisms classified?
A group of different species that live in the same area. This means that you live with other humans, other animal species like dogs and squirrels, as well as different plant species
What is a community?
Both breath with lungs and have a backbone. One is warm blooded and one is cold blooded. One has fur or hair while the other has scales.
What are two similarities and two differences between a mammal and a reptile?
Frog
What is an example of an amphibian?
The natural home or environment of a plant, animal or other organism.
What is a habitat?
Appearance, habitat, and structures.
What are three ways to classify animals?
Trout
What is an example of a fish?