Animal Adaptations
Physical attributes that help organisms meet a life need
Structural adaptations
In a food chain, this organism uses sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to make sugar and oxygen.
A producer
The living part of an ecosystem with 2 or more organisms
A community
What is the flow of energy from the sun through producers, consumers, and decomposers?
A food web?
Certain types of activities organisms perform that help them meet a life need
Behavioral adaptations
In a food chain, this organism must eat other plants or animals to survive.
A consumer
In a community, this is made up of one type of organism.
A population
A community and its nonliving environment
An ecosystem?
3 examples of behavioral adaptations
birds migrating; schools of fish traveling; bears hibernating; etc.
1. What is a consumer that eats only producers
2. What is a consumer that eats both plants and animals
3. What is a consumer that eats only animals
1. herbivore; 2. omnivore; 3. carnivore
Each organism's home which provides food, water, shelter, and space
A habitat
The success of communities is based on the utilization of this energy source
The sun
3 examples of structural adaptations
chameleon changing colors; webbed feet of a duck; giraffe's long neck; hard outer shell of a turtle; etc.
These break down dead plants and animals
Decomposers
The function that an organism performs in the food web of a community
Niche
Examples: rabbits, cows, horses
Herbivores
This is a behavior an animal is born with and does not need to be taught
Instinct
These organisms eat dead animals, but do not hunt them.
Scavengers
List three ways humans are negatively affecting the ecosystem and how we can fix it.
Examples: pesticides, cutting down trees, pollution, littering, etc.
In a food web, give an example of a predator and its prey
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