Animal Adaptations
Physical attributes that help organisms meet a life need
What are structural adaptations?
In a food chain, this organism uses sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to make sugar and oxygen.
What is: a producer?
Name a type of ecosystem.
What is: Forest, Grassland, Desert, Tundra, Taiga, Frshwater, Marine?
The living part of an ecosystem
What is a community?
The flow of energy from the sun through producers, consumers, and decomposers
What is a food web?
Certain types of activities organisms perform that help them meet a life need
What are behavioral adaptations?
In a food chain where the greatest amount of energy in a community is found
What is: a producer?
Which is an example of biotic and abiotic factors interacting together in an ecosystem?
A. Bear eating a fish
B. Rabbit eating grass
C. A dog digging in the dirt
What is the life cycle of a butterfly?
In a community, this is made up of one type of organism.
What is population?
A community and its nonliving environment
What is an ecosystem?
3 examples of behavioral adaptations
What are: birds migrating; schools of fish traveling; bears hibernating; etc.?
1. Consumer that eats only producers; 2. Consumer that eats both plants and animals; 3. Consumer that eats only animals
What are: 1. herbivore; 2. omnivore; 3. carnivore?
Positive impacts of humans on the environment?
What is: reduce, recycle, reuse?
“Reduce” refers to the reduction of waste during production processes such as manufacturing. “Reuse” also helps reduce waste by using items multiple times before discarding them, if at all. To “recycle” means to take a used material and remanufacture it to sell new.
Each organism's home which provides food, water, shelter, and space
What is a habitat?
If animals eat plants to get energy, where do plants get their energy?
What is: the sun?
4 examples of structural adaptations
What are: chameleon changing colors; webbed feet of a duck; giraffe's long neck; hard outer shell of a turtle; etc.?
These break down dead plants and animals.
What are decomposers?
Negative impacts of humans on the environment?
What is: Cutting down trees, pollution, dumping waste?
The function that an organism performs in the food web of a community
What is niche?
Examples: rabbits, cows, horses
What are: (examples of) herbivores?
To avoid cold weather; to find new food supplies; and to find a safe place to breed and raise their young (Think: A behavioral adaptation!)
What are: the reasons why animals migrate?
Grass > Rabbits > Snakes > Hawks
If a disease strikes the snake population in the food chain, what will happen to the populations of hawks?
A. The population of hawks would decrease
B. The population of hawks would increase
C. The population of hawks would stay the stay the same
What is: A. The population of hawks would decrease?
If the sun were completely blocked so that it no longer provided energy to the plants in a lake, what would happen to the remaining life in the lake?
What is: All of the organisms in the lake would die
In the Chesapeake Bay, this negative human impact is causing the oyster population to decline.
What is: pollution?
In a food web, an example of a predator and its prey
What are: fox - frog; weasel - mouse; bird - insect; etc.?