What are natural events that cause changes in the environment.
100
I am the favorite food of a horned lizard.
What is a harvester ant.
100
Protecting ecosystems and the organisms in them.
What is conservation.
100
When all the members of a certain type of living thing die.
What is extinction.
200
Living things that interact with each other.
What is community.
200
This is the term used to describe when an animal of the same type can come in varied colors and patterns.
What is variation.
200
When an animal takes over an ecosystem that was not their original home. Fire ants are an example.
What is invasive species.
200
A harmful substance that gets into the environment.
What is pollution.
200
The creatures roamed the earth 65 million years ago.
What are dinosaurs.
300
A community of the living things and non-living things around them.
What is ecosystem.
300
This long-term event could cause animals to develop thicker fur or more feathers and some plants that thrive in hot conditions to die.
What is an overall drop in Earth's temperature.
300
This water-loving, dam-building animal both helps and harms the environment.
What is the beaver.
300
Three ways to restore a habitat.
What is replanting tees, cleaning up pollution, and removing invasive species.
300
The cause of dinosaurs' extinction.
What is a cooled environment.
400
In a school, it's the desks, carpet, white-board, and buses.
What are non-living things.
400
An example is the peppered moths changing to mostly black over time.
What is adaptation.
400
I love to eat harvester ants, which are being wiped out. If my diet were more varied, there would be more of me around.
What is the horned lizard.
400
Cutting down trees in an entire area is an example of this.
What is habitat destruction, or clear-cutting.
400
I became extinct within 80 years of people coming to my island and hunting my species for food, cutting down trees, and bringing in non-native animals.
What is the dodo bird.
500
Food, water, air, and shelter.
What are basic needs of living things.
500
A long period of time with less-than-normal amounts of rainfall.
What is drought.
500
We've adapted and become resistant to anitbiotics.
What is bacteria.
500
Most trash ends up here.
What is a landfill.
500
Not extinct, but the numbers of these animals are greatly reduced due to drastic changes in their habitat.