Plant and animals in an ecosystem are ______ factors.
What is biotic?
100
Animals such as bees and birds drink this from flowers.
What is nectar?
100
Name two reasons ecosystems change. (p107)
What is natural events and humans change?
100
Special features that help animals to survive in their environment.
What are adaptations?
100
What is the term used when there are no longer any animals of a certain kind left?
What is extinct?
200
Rainfall and temperature are examples of _______ factors.
What are abiotic factors?
200
What is transferred from flower to flower by animals as they travel?
What is pollen?
200
When an ecosystems changes and a group of animals move to another place, this is an example of ______
What is an accommodation?
200
Animals that are active at night and sleep during the day
What is nocturnal?
200
How are the yellow saxifrage adapted to live in the artic tundra? (p 121)
What is they grow low to the ground, protecting them from winds.
300
Most of life on Earth is found in the _________.
What are rain forests?
300
What are the male and female parts of the plant called?
What is stamen (male) and pistil (female)?
300
When an ecosystem changes and a group of animals now eat a different food, this is an example of __________.
This is also an accomodation.
300
Animals that imitate another animal to confuse predators.
What is mimicry?
300
Which of the sea creatures on p 122 use mimicry to survive in the ocean?
What is the leafy sea dragon?
400
Name the four layers in the rainforest in order from the top.
What is emergent, canopy, understory and the forest floor?
400
What is it called when animals spread seeds when the seeds stick to their skin, fall to the ground and then grow into new plants?
What is seed dispersal?
400
What ar animals called when very few of an animal or plant type are left? Give one example.
What is endangered? An example is the California Condor.
400
What adaptation does the barrel cactus have for surviving in the desert? (p 118)
What is they store water?
400
Name two ways that animals use plants. Give an example of each. p 97
What is plants as food and plants as shelter?
500
What is the difference between biotic and abiotic factors?
Give an example of each.
What is biotic factors are the living things in an ecosystem. The abiotic factors are the non-living things in an ecosystem.
500
How can an animal help spread fruit seeds?
The seeds can be dispersed in two ways. The animals can eat the seeds and the seeds will be later left on the ground in the animal's waste. Or the seeds will stick to the animal's fur and fall to the ground in another place.
500
What might happen if people stopped helping the California Condor?
Because the birds have difficulty surviving in areas with alot of people, they might become endangered again.
500
How are a desert jackrabbit's ears and a lizard's belly alike?
What is both are adaptations of desert plants?
500
The study of how organisms pass traits from one generation to the next is called_______.