Physical Adaptations
Various animals blend into their environment to protect themselves from enemies.
What is camouflage?
What is hibernation?
The transfer of energy among plants and animals in a specific area or environment.
What is a food chain?
An organism that only eats plants.
What is an herbivore?
Desert, Grassland, Rain forest, Forest.
What are terrestrial ecosystems?
Some animals look like other animals to avoid being eaten. This helps protect them from predators.
What is mimicry?
What is migration?
A green plant that makes its own food from sunlight, air, and water.
What is a producer?
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
Pond, Marshland, Swamp, River, Stream, Ocean.
What are aquatic ecosystems?
The harmless Viceroy butterfly looks like the poisonous Monarch butterfly to avoid being eaten.
What is mimicry?
What is instinct?
An animal that eats living organisms (plants or animals).
What is a consumer?
An organism that eats only other animals.
What is a carnivore?
A group of organisms of the same kind that live in the same place.
What is a population?
A green frog blends in with algae.
What is camouflage?
Some behaviors need to be taught in order for the animal to survive.
What is learned behavior?
Certain organisms break down decayed plants and animals into smaller pieces that can be used again by living things.
What is a decomposer?
An animal that can hunt other animals for food.
What is a predator?
All of the populations (plants and animals) that live together in the same place.
What is a community?
An example of an animal that uses camouflage.
An example of an animal that uses mimicry.
What is ---?
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An animal that can be hunted by other animals and eaten as food.
What is prey?