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Food Chains
Adaptations
Interactions of Living Things
Chapter 1 Questions
100
Who Creates nutrients for animals?
What is a producer?
100
Some animals travel south for the winter. What is this called?
What is migration?
100

Interdependence is when living things depend on each other to meet their needs. How does a sea anemone and a clown fish have interdependence? 

The sea anemone has poisonous tentacles, but the clown fish lives in this sea anemone. The way it works is that the sea anemone protects the clown fish from danger, and the clown fish keeps the anemone's tentacles clean by eating the scraps of food left by them. 

100

Plants use ____________ from sunlight to make food. 

What is Energy?

200
What is the major source of energy in a food chain
The sun
200
This becomes thicker on rabbits in the winter to protect it from the cold weather.
What is fur?
200
List three ways seeds can be dispersed

seeds are carried by the wind,

seeds get caught on an animal's fur and carried away

seeds in fruit are eaten by animals then dropped as waste

200

What is a terrarium? 

A terrarium is a model ecosystem. 

300
Who recycles nutrients in the food chain?
What is a decomposer?
300
During the winter the Starling gets white spots to blend in with the snow. What is this called?
What is camouflage?
300

True or False 

Living things in an ecosystem are independent and rarely interact with each other

False. They DO interact all the time!

300

A ___________ ecosystem has wet, mild winter but extremely hot, dry summers

what is a Chaparral?
400
What takes energy from the sun and converts it to food for animals?
What is a producer?
400
What is it called when a bear sleeps all winter?
What is hibernation?
400
Give me an example of a predator-prey relationship and what it means.

A prey is an animal that is hunted for food

A predator is the animal that hunts other animals for food

One example is a rabbit being eaten by a lynx. 

400

What is the temperate zone?

An area where the temperature rarely gets very hot or very cold, many different organisms live here

500
Put these animals in order according to a food chain snake, plant, sun, mouse, owl
sun, plant, mouse, snake, owl
500
What are the 3 forms of adaptations
camouflage, migration and hibernation
500

What is the difference between mimicry and camouflage? 

Mimicry is an adaptation where an animal LOOKS LIKE another animal (owl and owl butterflies)

Camouflage is the physical appearance of an animal that helps it blend in with its surroundings (chameleon)

500

What are the six traits of living things?

Energy, nutrients, air, shelter, water, reproduction