Living Things & the Environment
A prairie dog, an eagle and a baby are all examples of an __________ or a living thing
What is an organism ?
A herd of buffaloes.
What is a population?
Immigration?
An organism that cannot make its own food and obtains energy by feeding on plants or other organisms is a __________
What is a consumer?
This allows animals to survive in their environment.
Hint: a giraffe's long neck or a cheetah's top speed.
What are adaptations?
A place where an organism lives and grows.
Hint: There's no place like home!
What is a habitat?
A dog, a cat, a parrot, and a child living in the same house.
What is a community?
This word means to move out of a population.
Emigration?
Consumers that only eat plants are?
What are herbivores?
A green tree python is ________ to a field mouse?
What is a predator?
The living parts of an organism's habitat are called the ________ factors.
What is biotic factors?
Zebras and antelope on the high grass of Africa.
What is ecosystem?
An environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing, such as, no trees in an area that is populated with giraffes is called?
What is a limiting factor?
The role or job of an organism in its habitat is called its ________.
Niche?
A rabbit is ________ to a wolf.
What is prey?
The nonliving part of an organism's habitat, such as: trees, grass and sunlight are all _________ factors.
What are abiotic factors.
A giant tree filled with bugs, plants, birds and snakes.
What is an ecosystem?
If there are 10 rabbits and five die in one year and 10 more are born. Has the population increased or decreased?
What is increased?
This diagram shows what happens with energy in a food web and includes: producers, followed by first-level consumers, second-level consumers, and finally third-level consumers.
Hint: They were popular with the ancient Egyptians.
What are Energy Pyramids?
A relationship in which both species benefit is called?
What is mutualism?
Plants and algae need water, along with sunlight and carbon dioxide, to make their food in a process called ____________.
What is photosynthesis.
A pack of lions inside a sanctuary at the L.A. Zoo
What is a population?
An organism that makes its own food is called a ________
Hint: They also are in charge of movie production!
What are producers?
Trees grow from sunlight, and grasshoppers live in trees, mice and birds eat grasshoppers, but snakes eat mice, but foxes and hawks eat snakes, rabbits and mice.
The following is an example of a
What is a food web?
The process of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation make up the __________
What is the water cycle?