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?
What is one negative impact that Humans have on our Ecosystem?
Examples: Hunting, fossil fuels, cutting trees, littering, excess waste
The living parts of an ecosystem that depend on one another and interact.
What is a community?
The flow of energy from the sun through producers, consumers, and decomposers
What is a food web?
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?
What is one example of a natural disaster that has a negative effect on an Ecosystem?
Examples: floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunami, drought
One species in one place.
What is population?
The place or kind of place in which an animal or plant naturally lives?
What is a habitat?
3 examples of behavioral adaptations
What are: birds migrating; schools of fish traveling; bears hibernating; etc.?
A Consumer that eats only Producers
What is a herbivore?
What is one way humans can help protect their ecosystem?
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The non-living and living things in a particular place.
What is an Ecosystem?
The organization of communities is based on energy coming from....
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?
How does an animal's niche change as it grows?
What is eats changes.
A living thing.
What is an organism?
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?
A consumer that only eats other animals.
What is a carnivore?
During an organism's life cycle, this can change.
What is: niche?
What is an organism's function or job in an ecosystem called?
What is a niche?
Draw a food web with at least one producer, herbivore, omnivore and carnivore.
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