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What is the thick layer of fat some animals have to keep warm?
blubber
What is an animal called that depends on grasses for food?
grazer
What are animals of a food chain that find and eat food for energy called?
consumers
What is the natural home of a plant or animal called?
habitat
In a food chain, whatever is not eaten is broken down by?
What 4 things do animals need in their habitats?
space, shelter, water, food
A group of grazing land animals that stay together for protection?
herd
A dry land area having very little plant growth?
desert
Plants that produce their own food energy that others can use?
producers
A group of birds?
flock
A treeless land in the Arctic where the subsoil is permanently frozen?
tundra
What are the steps of the food chain in order?
Sunlight energy, producer, consumer, top predator, decomposer
What do stream plants do to the water?
Clean it
What is the tiny microscopic water animals that depend on algae for food?
zooplankton
What do we call the direction water flows?
current
What layer do the extremely tall trees grown in the rainforest?
emergent layer
What is at the bottom of the rainforest?
forest floor
What do all land animals need?
a water source
The moisture that condenses on plants as they cool in the night?
dew
The transfer of energy from one living thing to another for survival?
food chain
Animals that depend on grasses for food?
grazers
Movement from one place to another with the changing of the seasons?
migration
To shed fur, hair, or skin?
molting
What is a dry land area having very little plant growth?
desert
Animals that are active only at night?
nocturnal
A group of wolves or wild dogs?
pack
Small mammals, such as rats?
rodents
The plants of a habitat?
vegetation
What kind of habitat is a stream?
freshwater
Plants with thick leaves and stems to hold water?
succulents
What is the treeless land of the Arctic where the subsoil is permanently frozen?
tundra
What is a deep winter sleep to store energy called?
hibernation
What kind of habitat is a coral reef?
saltwater
What is a group of fish?
school
What do all consumers of the sea depend on for food and oxygen?
algae
A narrow opening between rocks?
crevice