Animals typically do this during the summer months
What is raising young?
100
During the spring season you will most likely see this on a walk
What is budding plants?
100
The movement of animals from one region to another and back
What is migration?
100
Plants and some bacteria carry out a process that produces oxygen and sugar.
What is photosynthesis?
200
In a state of rest or inactivity
What is dormancy?
200
During the winter Canada's ground freezes and some animals have difficulty finding food. An animal could avoid this problem by
What is migrating (or hibernation)?
200
Trees are dormant. They do not grow or use much energy. Their leaves, flowers, and fruit fall off - the trees are bare.
What is the winter season?
200
The preserving or protecting of a resource
What is conservation?
200
An animal that eats both plants and insects/other animals.
What is an omnivore?
300
The process that plants use to make sugar
What is photosynthesis?
300
Bears eat grass in the spring, bird eggs and fish in the summer, and berries in the fall.
What is an omnivore consumer?
300
Sunlight, water, carbon dioxide, and nutrients
What are things plants need for photosynthesis?
300
An animal that eats both plants and other animals
What is an omnivore?
300
Animals that only eat meat from other animals.
What is a carnivore?
400
A living thing that gets energy by breaking down dead organisms into simpler substances
What are decomposers?
400
A park ranger tells you that you will not likely see any ground squirrels during your winter visit to a national park.
What is the ground squirrels are hibernating?
400
Grass-->rabbits-->panther
The grass represents the ___________ in this food chain.
What is the producer?
400
A living thing, such as a plant, that can make its own food
What is a producer?
400
The grasshopper eats grass and meerkats eat grasshoppers. The grasshopper is _____________ in this food chain.
What is a source of energy?
500
A dormant, inactive state in which normal body activities slow
What is hibernation?
500
Plants do not grow during the winter. How might this affect deer in the forest?
What is less food for deer to eat?
500
Vultures/buzzards get food from eating animals that are already dead (roadkill). They are considered consumers and decomposers. Another name for these creatures is
What is a scavenger?
500
A series of organisms that depend on one another for food
What is a food chain?
500
A coyote eats rabbits. Rabbits eat grass and plants. They are both