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Producers and Consumers
Food Webs
Adaptations
Birds
This and That
100
Overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
100
An animal that hunts, catches, and eats other animals.
What is a predator?
100
A structure or behavior that helps an organism survive in its surroundings.
What is an adaptation?
100
An organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and wastes.
What is a decomposer?
100
A consumer or animal that eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
200
The path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
200
An animal that is hunt, caught, and eaten by another animal.
What is prey?
200
The environment where an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
200
Give an example of an ecosystem.
What is an ocean, desert, rainforest, swamp, etc. It includes everything living and non-living.
200
All of the living and non-living things in an environment that interact with each other.
What is an ecosystem?
300
An organism that makes its own food.
What is a producer?
300
All food webs begin with this.
What is a producer?
300
A period when an animal goes into a long, deep "sleep".
What is hibernation?
300
What is the main function or job of a bird's beak?
Getting food
300
A consumer or animals that eats other animals.
What is a carnivorous animal?
400
The process of using the energy in sunlight to make food from water and carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
400
If we removed all prey from a food web, what effect would this have?
If we removed all prey from a food web, the predators would not have enough to eat.
400
The movement of a group of one type of animal from one region to another and back again.
What is migration?
400
What kind of tool does a pelican's beak most resemble?
What is a fishing net?
400
An animal's color or pattern that helps it blend in with its surroundings.
What is camouflage?
500
An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms.
What is a consumer?
500
Give an example of a carnivore, an herbivore, and an omnivore.
What is wolf, cheetah, lion (carnivore) zebra, cow, giraffe (herbivore) pig, bear, chicken (omnivore)
500
A behavior that an animal begins life with.
What is an instinct?
500
Different types of birds have different types of beaks depending on this.
What is habitat and type of prey?
500
A consumer or animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?