Habitats
The place where a plant or animal lives, providing food, water, shelter, and space.
What is a habitat?
This mammal eats hay, dried grass, corn, or alfalfa (image in the worksheet).
What is a cow?
One of the three types of species in a food chain that makes its own food using sunlight.
What is a producer?
The worksheet word for living things introduced to a new habitat that cause harm
What are invasive species?
The word from the bank meaning “changes in body or behavior that help an organism survive
What are adaptations?
A small landmass surrounded by water; often supports unique plants like evergreen trees (as shown in the worksheet drawing).
What is an island habitat?
This animal’s diet includes fruits, berries, nuts, fish, frogs, and mice (image in the worksheet).
What is a raccoon?
One of the three types of species in a food chain that eats other organisms (consumers, producers, or this type that breaks down dead matter)
What is a decomposer?
cutting down trees is called this...
What is deforestation?
animals that have disappeared forever
What is extinct?
The broad area centered at (0,0) on coordinate-style classroom grids; in ecology, this word also means all living and nonliving factors in one place (two-word phrase: living together)
What is community?
This big cat eats wildebeests, zebras, and antelopes (image in the worksheet).
What is a lion?
The worksheet multiple-choice answer: “The three types of species in a food chain are ____.”
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
Name one human action that helps protect or improve habitats
What is creating protected areas (or planting native trees / reducing pollution)?
A way of showing the different levels of species in a habitat in relation to the way they eat (hint, may be displayed in a linear or pyramid format)
What is a food chain?
An example of an abiotic factor in a habitat that affects which species live there (e.g., temperature, water, soil).
What is temperature (or water or soil)?
An animal that eats only meat
What is a carnivore?
This species from the multiple-choice list would be considered a decomposer (one correct option in the worksheet).
What is a mushroom?
A conservation status from the word bank describing animals in danger of disappearing forever.
What is endangered?
Term for living things brought to a new habitat that may upset ecosystems
What are invasive species?
The process by which forests are removed, reducing habitat area and biodiversity; listed in the worksheet word bank
What is deforestation?
The diet category for animals that eat both plants and animals
What is an omnivore?
A consumer that eats only plants
What is a herbivore?
A set of three human-driven solutions to support habitats and communities
habitat restoration, pollution reduction, and protected areas, or planting native vegetation, controlling invasive species, enforcing conservation laws
list three adaptations that help animals survive in their habitats
What are camouflage, hibernation, and sharp teeth, or thick fur, webbed feet, long neck, camouflage, migration, etc.?