Ecosystem parts
Organisms
Different Ecosystems
Dependence of Organisms
Adaptations
100
Water, sunlight, soil, and air
What are nonliving things.
100
This is what all of the organisms in an ecosystem are called.
What is a community?
100
This is a dry ecosystem with sandy soil.
What is a desert?
100
This is an animal that gets energy by eating plants, or by eating other animals that eat plants.
What is a consumer?
100
This is when the coloring, marking, or other physical appearance of an animal can help it blend in with its surroundings.
What is camouflage?
200
This is made of all the living things and nonliving things in that interact in an area
What is an ecosystem?
200
This is all the members of one kind of plant or animal in a community.
What is a population?
200
This is a fairly dry ecosystem with very cold, long winters and short, cool summers.
What is a taiga?
200
This is an animal that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
200
This allows an animal to protect itself by looking like another kind of animal or plant.
What is mimicry?
300
This is an ecosystem where it rains a lot.
What is a rainforest?
300
This is the place where a plant or animal lives.
What is a habitat?
300
This is the top of the rainforest where tall trees meet their needs and many animals find food and shelter.
What is the canopy?
300
This is a group of organisms that produces organisms of the same kind.
What is a species?
300
Think about the ecosystem that a jackrabbit might live in. This is why a jackrabbit's coat is light in color.
What is to blend into the background of the desert.
400
This ecosystem has wet, mild winters and hot, dry summers.
What is a chaparral ecosystem?
400
Name two way that organisms depend on nonliving things to survive.
What are living space and water?
400
This is an aquatic environment.
What is a wetland?
400
This is the taking away of seeds from that plant that made them and spreading them around.
What is seed dispersal?
400
This is the reason that tree leaves have pointed ends in the tropical rainforest.
What is to let rain drop off?
500
This is something that is found in nature that is useful to organisms.
What is a resource?
500
Name two way that organisms depend on each other.
What are reproduction and food?
500
These two things will help you decide the kinds of organisms that can live in an ecosystem.
What are rainfall and temperature?
500
These are two resources that organisms compete for.
What are air and water?
500
This is the reason that clown fish don't get stung by sea anemones.
What is a coating they make?
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