Conservation (Animals)
Prevention of wasteful use of a resource.
A defense mechanism or tactic that organisms use to disguise their appearance, usually to blend in with their surroundings.
What is camouflage?
An animal that feeds on flesh.
What is a carnivore?
The process of enlarging people's freedoms and opportunities and improving their well-being.
What is human development?
When dissecting owl pellets, the type of protection from flying particles in air.
What are goggles?
The activity or process of keeping something valued alive, intact, or free from damage or decay.
What is preservation?
A defense mechanism of certain organisms that consists of a hard protective outer case.
What is shell?
The principle that the total amount of energy in a closed system remains always the same, none being lost or created in any chemical or physical process or in the conversion of one kind of energy into another, within that system.
What is conservation of energy?
The reduction in the amount of space where a particular species, or group of species can survive and reproduce.
What is habitat loss?
When dissecting owl pellets, the type of protection against germs.
What are gloves?
A species that no longer exists.
What is extinction?
The close external resemblance of an animal or plant (or part of one) to another animal, plant, or inanimate object.
What is mimicry?
A graphical representation of the energy found within the trophic levels of an ecosystem.
What is energy pyramid?
The preying of one animal on others.
What is predation?
When dissecting owl pellets, how we hold our tweezers while walking.
What is holding firmly in a closed hand?
A species at serious risk of exticntion.
What is endangered?
A defense mechanism consisting of a curved pointed nail on each digit of the foot in birds, lizards, and some mammals.
What is a claw?
The position of an organism in the food chain.
What are trophic levels?
Animals or plants from another region of the world that don't belong in their new environment.
What are invasive species?
How we sterilize owl pellets for dissecting?
What is microwaving?
A species vulnerable to becoming at risk of no longer existing.
What is threatened species?
A defense mechanism consisting of a substance that is capable of causing the illness or death of a living organism when introduced or absorbed.
Creates the second trophic level. Also known as herbivores.
What is primary consumer?
A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water resulting in a decline in animal populations.
What is drought?
Putting tools in one location and keeping the area clean.
What is staying organized?