Vocabulary #1
What Affects Survival?
Interdependence
Microorganisms
Vocabulary #2
100
There are more of these than any other living thing on Earth.
What is bacteria
100
Examples of this term are physical traits and instinctive behaviors that help organisms survive, such as beaks, hibernation, migration, and coloring.
What is adaptations
100
Interdependence is another word for?
What is mutual dependence.
100
Phytoplankton are an example of which microorganism?
What is a protist.
100
Physical traits that help organisms survive.
What is adaptations
200
A learned behavior that helps an organism survive.
What is accomodation
200
How long does it take an organism to adapt to its environment?
At least one generation...many generations.
200
Many animals help spread pollen, name at least 2?
What are bees, birds, bats, butterflies, ect.
200
Name at least two examples of microorganisms that we learned about that are harmful?
What are Salmonella, E. Coli, germs...
200
Water, soil, air, and sunlight are examples of what?
What are nonliving parts of an ecosystem
300
This term means that living things rely on each other for survival.
What is interdependence
300
An adaptation that helps cacti plants survive in their environment?
What is They have a waxy coating.
300
Animals and plants have a relationship. One way that plants help animals is by providing food for animals to eat. Name one way that animals helps plants?
What is by pollinating the plants.
300
Which microorganism helps break down dead animal and plant matter?
What is mold or fungi
300
They are too small to be seen without a microscope
What are microorganisms
400
All of the different kinds of organisms living in an environment make up an...
What is a community
400
An adaptation is a change in a body part or a behavior that helps a living thing survive. The difference between an adaptation and an accommodation is what?
An accommodation is a learned behavior that helps the individual members of a species survive.
400
How does pollination help plants?
What is reproduction.
400
name the three shapes that you see when you look at bacteria (a microorganism) under the microscope?
What are rods, balls, and spirals.
400
An ecosystem is all the living and nonliving parts in an area. What has similar ecosystems and climates within it?
What is a biome
500
one-celled microorganisms that share traits with plants and animals
What are protists
500
What factor or factors change when you go from one biome to another?
A biome is an area with a similar climate and ecosystem. A change in biomes would include changes in the climate, or long term weather.
500
What is the relationship between observations and inferences?
Inferences are based on observations
500
Name at least 3 ways that microorganisms can be helpful to humans?
What is making oxygen, help digest food in the human stomach, using yeast when making bread, making medicines, bacteria make yogurt or cheese from milk,
500
To transfer pollen from the male to the female part of a flower
What is pollinate