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How do organisms depend on each other?
How are organisms adapted to survive?
How do organism's compete?
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Why do organisms compete for resources?
Resources are limited
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What is an adaptation?
A physical feature or behavior that helps a plant or animal survive.
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What is a balanced ecosystem?
Population of predators and prey are balanced and there is enough resources to meet the needs of all its living things.
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What helps plants make seeds by moving pollen?
A pollinator
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What do organisms need to survive?
Water, air, food, living space
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List examples of 3 consumers.
Bugs, squirrels, bats
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What does camouflage mean?
The physical appearance of an animal that helps it blend into its surroundings.
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True or False - Plants and animal do not need to compete for living space.
False, plants and animals DO need to compete for living space.
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When all members of a team die out.
Extinction
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Looking at the food chain, tell whether or not the animal is a consumer or producer. Lizard --> Bugs --> Plant
A lizard is a consumer (it eats the bug) The bug is a consumer (it eats the plant) The plant is a producer
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List 3 examples of producers
Tree, plant, sun
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What is the mimicry adaptation?
An adaptation that allows an animal to protect itself by looking like another organism.
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What do animals use camouflage for?
To hide from predators and prey.
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What is the difference between a predator and prey?
A predator hunts an animal and the prey is hunted.
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What would you say to a friend who says that animals only need plants for food?
Animals depend on plants for more than food. Many animals use plants for shelter, too. For example, birds make nests in trees and some ants live in hollow places in trees.
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In a rainforest, some resources that plants use are limited. What are they and why are they limited?
Nutrients in soil and sunlight is limited. Nutrients - there are many plants Sunlight - the taller plants shade the plants belo
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How does a plant a plant and bee depend on each other?
The plant depends on the bee to reproduce or move pollen.
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What are 3 different ways animals use plants?
Food, shelter, and protection
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What is the difference between a producer and consumer?
A producer can make its own food and a consumer must eat plants and/or other animals as a source of food.
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Why would a deer population change over the years?
There is competition for resources among deer which can cause them to die.
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What does it mean when two living things are interdependent? Give an example.
It means that both organisms depend on each other for survival. A clown fish and the sea anemone.
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What would happen if a cactus was planted in a rainforest? What would it have too much of? What would it have too little of?
The cactus would die. It would get too much water and not enough sunlight.
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Why would birds want to live in a crowded colony?
For protection, if they are unable to live in the crowded area, they are more exposed to predators.
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What is a group of organisms that produce organisms of the same kind?
Species
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Nonliving parts of ecosystems that living things require include....
Water, space or shelter, and food