Words to Know
Key Ideas
Nonliving and Living Things
Adaptations
Change on an Ecosystem
100

Some animals do this in the coldest months

What is hibernation? 

100

Some living things work together.

What are partnerships?

100

All living things.

What are organisms?

100

A change in a characteristic of a living thing that allows it to survive in its environment.

What is an adaptation?

100

Anything that makes the air, water, or land dirty

What is pollution? 

200

All the non-living things surrounding an organism.

What is the environment?

200

Living like this makes it easier for animals to find food, to be better protected, and to care for their young.

What is living in a group?

200

The living and nonliving things in an area

What is an ecosystem?

200

Animals blend in with their surroundings

What is camouflage?

200

The changes that living things make in their ecosystems can be

What is helpful and harmful? 

300

Animals move from one ecosystem to another to find food and water

What is migration?

300

A Christian's role in his environment 

What is being a good steward? 

300

All the non-living things surrounding an organism

What is an environment?

300

Some living things are protected by looking like other living things.

What is mimicry?

300

When a herd of Elephants move through an area it forms a path

What are changes by animals?

400

Anything that can meet the need of a living thing.

What is a resource?

400

A physical characteristic, a skill, or a behavior

What are examples of adaptations? 

400

Every organism requires certain things so that it can survive

What are needs?

400

Different ways animals protect themselves

What are defenses?

400

When we build things and move things around

What are changes by people?

500

Animals that are food for other animals.

What is prey?

500

Caused by people or animals

What are changes in an ecosystem?

500

When living things try to use the same resource

What is competition?

500

When animals move from one place to another

What is migration?

500

Ways to prevent harmful effects in ecosystems 

What is planting trees, bushes, wildflowers, making small ponds, and picking up trash?

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