Ecosystems
All the different populations living in the same place at the same time.
What is a community?
An organism that used to live on earth but who's population completely died out.
What is extinct?
Name two examples of things in an ecosystem that are abiotic.
What are...
-gases?
-rocks?
-water?
A hawk's talons, a spider making silk webbing, and wolves hunting in packs are adaptations that help animals do this.
What is catch food?
Planting trees conserves this.
What is land?
A group of one kind of organism living in one place at the same time.
What is a population?
A fossil that is the mark of a plant or animal.
What is an imprint fossil?
The sparrows in this food chain are two things.
Corn ---> Grasshoppers ---> Sparrows
What are consumers and predators?
The ability to blend into the background of the environment.
What is camouflage?
Driving cars that emit less exhaust can help conserve this.
What is air?
All the living and nonliving things that interact in a specific place.
What is an ecosystem?
The remains of a plant or animal.
What is a fossil?
A special process that plants use to make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
Camouflage helps a predator to get food in this way.
What is it helps the predator to sneak up on its prey?
Companies not putting chemicals into rivers conserves this.
What is water?
The place an organism lives in an ecosystem.
What is a habitat?
This is the name for things that are biotic in an ecosystem.
What are organisms?
An object that shows how something works or what something looks like.
What is a model?
Adaptations such as camouflage, smell and spikes and thorns can help animals in this way.
What is to help prey not get eaten?
Pollution is this type of ecosystem change.
What is man-made?
An ecosystem with certain plants, animals and weather that covers a large area.
What is a biome?
An organism whose population is in danger of dying out.
What is endangered?
Drought is this type of ecosystem change?
What is natural?
Mimicry can help a nonpoisonous lizard not be eaten in this way.
What is it makes the nonpoisonous lizard look like a poisonous lizard and so predators will not want to eat it?
Preserving habitats for plants and animals conserves this.
What is land?