Animal Characteristics
An insect in its inactive, immature form. The stage between larva and adult.
What is a pupa?
A plant that completes its life cycle in one growing season.
What is an annual?
An organism that feeds upon the tissues or fluids of another animal.
What is a parasite?
When aquatic animals lay many small eggs.
What is to spawn?
A soil with a particle size that is between sand and clay.
What is silt?
The way an animal walks.
What is gait?
Plants that shed their leaves and go dormant at the end of the season or to survive extreme weather conditions.
What is 'deciduous'?
A relationship between two different organisms living in close physical association, which can evolve over time to become mutually beneficial.
What is a symbiotic relationship?
The part of land that is near the sea.
What is coast or coastal?
Not composed of organic or living matter.
What is inorganic?
An internal skeleton.
What is an endoskeleton?
A plant that lives for two growing seasons, producing leaves for one season and flowers and seeds the next season.
What is a biennial?
An association between organisms in which each organisms benefits.
What is mutualism?
Fly routes used by migratory birds.
What is a flyway?
A multilayered habitat of closed canopy trees, shrubs, vines and grasses (also called a forest).
What is a woodland?
An organism whose presence, absence, or abundance acts as a signal, showing whether an ecosystem is healthy or not.
What is an indicator species?
A simple, slow growing plant-like organism made up of an alga and a fungus that grow together in a symbiotic relationship.
What is lichen?
The relationship between two living organisms in which one benefits and the other is neither harmed nor benefits.
What is commensalism?
When herbivores overeat in an area.
What is over-browsing.
A place where rivers meet, join and eventually drain into the ocean through a bay.
What is a delta?
An animal that walks on toenails or hoofs.
What is an unguligrade?
An herbaceous flowering plant with broad leaves, other than a grass.
What is a forb?
An organism that houses another organism through a symbiotic relationship.
What is a host?
An aquatic animal that can breathe and live in both saltwater and freshwater.
What is 'anadromous'?
A rare seasonal wetland habitat occuring on grassland, where an impenetrable layer of soil pools rainwater in winter and spring. It can be inhabited by highly adapted plants and animals.
What is a vernal pool?