Food Chains & Food Webs
An animal's home is its ________.
habitat
A ________ is an ecosystem with many trees.
forest
A _______ is a structure or behavior that helps an organism survive in its environment.
adaptation
A _______ is something that helps an organism survive.
resource
______ are the remains of organisms that lived long ago.
Fossils
A _________ shows how energy passes from one organism to another in an ecosystem.
food chain
_______ is the patteren of weather in a place over a long time.
Climate
________ animals are animals that are active at night.
Nocturnal
What are the 3 Rs?
Reduce, reuse, recycle
A ________ is all the members of one kind of organism in an ecosystem.
population
Are humans carnivores, herbivores, or omnivores?
omnivores
A _______ is an ecosystem with less than 25cm of rainfall.
desert
_______ is when one living thing imitates another in color or shape.
Mimicry
_______ is the struggle among living things for resources.
Competition
A ______ happens when there is no rain for a long time.
drought
Plants and algae are _________.
Producers
What are the names of the five oceans?
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic, Southern
_______ makes an animal hard to see.
Camouflage
_______ happens when harmful materials get into the air, land, or water.
Pollution
What is the name of the hairy elephant?
woolly mammoth
What are 3 kinds of decomposers?
Worms, mushrooms, mold, insects, bacteria, snails, etc.
What is humus?
Broken-down plant and animal animals.
What is an animal that migrates?
Sperm whales and others
What are 5 resources?
A _______ is all the population in an ecosystem.
community