Predator vs. Prey
The Picture of Survival
Alien Invaders
Ribbit, Ribbit!
Amazing Adaptions
100
Leopard Geckos
What is a predator?
100
Pointy spines protect this plant from animals looking for a free drink in the desert.
What is a cactus?
100
An organism that is not native to an ecosystem and damages the ecosystem because it has no natural predators to keep its population in check.
What is an invasive species?
100
Newts and frogs, to name a few!
What are amphibians?
100
Physical features such as fur color, beak shape or moist skin, or leaf shape.
What are structural adaptations?
200
An organism that is hunted by predators
What is prey?
200
When this fish is feeling threatened, it can expand its body with air and water and extend its sharp points out almost 2 inches!
What is the pufferfish?
200
South Florida's most destructive invasive species, found right here at MCDS.
What is the green iguana?
200
What an adult amphibian is...
(herbivore, carnivore or omnivore).
What is a carnivore?
200
Actions that organisms take to survive, such as hibernation, migration and dormancy.
What are behavioral adaptations?
300
An organism that eats dead plant or animal matter that it did not kill itself
What is a scavenger?
300
This plant uses camouflage to look like pebbles with its grey fleshy leaves so that animals mistake the leaves for pebbles and don't eat it.
What is the pebble plant?
300
An aquatic invasive species that is now being served in some South Florida restaurants.
What is the lion fish?
300
When an animal's body temperature changes with the air or water around it.
What is cold blooded?
300
The resemblance of a plant or animal to another one, in appearance, sound or behavior. For example, the viceroy butterfly looking like the monarch butterfly, which is poisonous.
What is mimicry?
400
Its smell, color and temperature are meant to attract pollinators to ensure the plant's continuation.
What is a corpse flower?
400
This amphibian can stay underground encased in a mucous membrane for 7 years while waiting for rain.
What is the African Bullfrog?
400
This reptile was a popular pet in the 1970s that was released into the Everglades when it became too big to feed and keep.
What is the Ball Python?
400
The amphibian life cycle:
egg to tadpole to juvenile to adult.
What is metamorphosis?
400
Brightly colored fruits and flowers attract pollinators such as birds, bees and other insects.
What is a structural adaptation?
500
A predator at the top of the food chain, with no natural predators.
What is an apex predator?
500
This ocean "vegetable" will vomit up its own toxic and fowl tasting internal organs if grabbed by a predator!
What is a sea cucumber?
500
It was the first recorded invasive species in the United States, coming by boat from Europe.
What is the rat?
500
Legless, and often sightless amphibians that live mostly underground.
What are caecilians?
500
An adaptation that allows an organism to blend in with its environment for protection from predators or as a tool for hunting.
What is camouflage?