Vocabulary
What is a population?
A population is the number of people/plants/animals that live in one place.
What is a food chain?
A diagram that shows the flow of energy (source of food) from one living thing to another.
What is a habitat?
The home of a plant or animal.
What are the two types of ecosystems?
Aquatic and Terrestrial.
True or False. An endangered animal is an animal that is in danger of disappearing forever.
True.
What is a group of plants or animals that share the same habitat?
A community
What is a Herbivore?
An animal that only eats plants.
Flooding,fire from lightning, tornadoes and earthquakes are all examples of what type of change in the environment?
Natural
A marsh is an example of what type of ecosystem?
Aquatic
Why are Tigers endangered?
People are hunting them for their skin, bones and body parts.
What is a behavioral adaption?
Something an animal does that helps it survive.
True or False. A carnivore is an animal that eats both plants and animals.
False. A carnivore eats ONLY animals. An omnivore eats both plants and animals.
What ways do humans cause changed in habitats? List three examples.
Mining, pollution, deforestation, electricity, global warming
We live in what type of ecosystem?
Terrestrial
True or False. The Gray parrot is endangered because people are taking them to become pets and people are hunting them for their feathers.
False. The gray parrot is endangered because people are taking them to be pets, not for their feathers.
A place where an animal protects itself from the weather is known as what?
Shelter
What is the first organism in a food chain classified as?
Producer
True or False. Plants and animals found in one habitat can often not survive in another.
True
True or False. The same animals are found in salt water oceans and freshwater ponds?
False. The animals found in salt water oceans are different from the animals found in freshwater ponds.
Why are Stag Beetles becoming endangered?
Stag Beetles are becoming endangered because their habitats in which they life are being cleared.
Define ecosystem
All of the living and non-living things found in a particular location.
What is the last organism in a food chain classified as?
Decomposer
What do land animals need in their habitat to survive?
Food, Water and Shelter
Can animals live in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems?
Yes. The otter is an example of that.
What is the greatest threat to animals?
Humans