Adaptations, Inherited Traits, and Learned Behaviors
Life Cycles
Organisms
100
All the living and non-living things that interact with each other in the environment
What is an ecosystem?
100
An animal that hunts prey.
What is a predator?
100
A structure or behavior that helps an organism survive in its surroundings
What is adaptation?
100
The life cycle of an organism whose appearance changes substantially at each of the four stages - egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
What is complete metamorphosis?
100
A living thing.
What is an organism?
200
Where an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
200
An animal that gets hunted.
What is prey?
200
A behavior that an animal develops by observing other animals or by being taught
What is learned behavior?
200
The life cycle of an organism whose appearance does not change substantially and has three growth stages - egg, nymph, and adult.
What is incomplete metamorphosis?
200
The baby of a living thing.
What is an offspring?
300
A very large area of land with a certain kind of climate and certain kinds of organisms living there.
What is a biome?
300
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
300
A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring
What is inherited trait?
300
The small, wormlike stage in the life cycle of some insects; goes through complete metamorphosis.
What is a larva?
300
A group of organisms of the same kind that can mate and produce offspring
What is a species?
400
A living part of an ecosystem.
What is a biotic factor?
400
An organism which feeds on the remains of dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
400
Things organisms do to survive such as birds migrating south for the winter.
What is behavioral adaptation?
400
The stage in the life cycle of some insects when the organism changes from a larva into an adult; goes through complete metamorphosis.
What is a pupa?
400
All the organisms of the same species that live in the same place at the same time
What is a population?
500
A non-living part of an ecosystem.
What is an abiotic factor?
500
An organism that eats other organisms to survive.
What is a consumer?
500
Physical features of an organism, like webbed feet on a duck, or fur on a bear, that helps it survive in its environment.
What is structural adaptation?
500
Larva of certain insects like grasshoppers that resemble the adult and usually does not have wings. Insects that enter this stage of the life cycle go through incomplete metamorphosis.