Adaptations
Food Chain
Hosts/Parasites
Producer or Consumer?
Vocabulary
100
What is an adaptation
a structure or behavior that helps an organism survive in its environment.
100
Name the first part of a food chain (after the sun)
What is a producer?
100
Name an example of a host
What is a coyote?
100
grass
What is producer?
100
Define organism.
What is a living thing?
200
Name one adaptation a shark has.
What is fins to help the shark swim fast
200
Give an example of an animal that eats a producer
What is a grasshopper? (answers may vary)
200
What is a parasite?
What is a living thing that takes food, sometimes shelter, from another living thing
200
coyote
What is consumer?
200
Define habitat
the place where an animal or plant lives and grows
300
Fish need __________ to breath in the water
What is gills?
300
Give an example of an animal at the top of the food chain
What is a red-tailed hawk?
300
Describe a host.
What is the organism that the parasite feeds off of?
300
mushroom.
What is decomposer?
300
Define environment.
What is everything that surrounds and affects a living thing?
400
Mountain goats need __________ to stay warm
What is thick fur?
400
What is the animal at the top of the food chain called?
What is tertiary consumer/carnivore/top predator?
400
There are 2 types of parasites. Name them.
What is external and internal parasites?
400
What is a producer?
Something that produces energy.
400
Define Omnivore
What is a consumer that eats both plants and animals?
500
Polar bears use ___________ to blend into their environment.
What is camouflage?
500
Explain what would happen if a producer or a primary consumer was removed from the food chain?
The food chain would not be able to work because the energy flow starts with the producer and the primary consumer
500
Tell the difference between external and internal parasites
External parasites live outside the body of its host and internal parasites live inside the body of its host.
500
What is a consumer?
Something that consumes energy
500
Define endangered.
What is an animal species that is at risk for dying out completely.
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