Home Sweet Habitat
This is the natural home or environment of an organism.
A Habitat
These organisms break down waste and dead materials.
Decomposers
what is adaptation?
A feature or behavior that helps an organism survive in its environment.
Seasonal movement of animals from one place to another.
Migration
This North American desert is home to the Saguaro cactus.
The Sonoran Desert
This type of habitat is hot during the day, cold at night, and receives little rainfall.
A desert
These organisms make their own food using sunlight.
Producers/Plants
This adaptation helps an animal blend in with its environment. Spell it!
Camouflage
A long period of deep sleep that helps animals survive winter.
Hibernation
This plant in Sonoran Desert is a microhabitat for Cactus Wren.
Teddy Bear Cholla
List 4 abiotic factors in an Ecosystem
Water
Soil
Air
Sunlight
This is the path energy follows from one organism to another.
Food Chain
Polar bears survive the cold with these two insulating features.
Thick fur and a layer of blubber
Suggest three for interaction between organisms.
Food, Reproduction, Shelter
This desert rodent never drinks water but survives on seeds.
The kangaroo rat
What is a microhabitat?
A microhabitat is a place where an organism lives, but on a much smaller scale.
Define Ecosystem
A system where living and non-living things interact.
This survival technique involves copying the appearance or behavior of another organism.
Mimicry
A skunk’s spray and a pufferfish inflating are examples of this.
Defense mechanisms
Name his venomous desert lizard that stores fat in its tail. Explain its features.
The Gila monster: Slow metabolism, fat storage in their tails, venomous bite, and a preference for underground habitats.
This type of habitat, found in both polar regions and high mountain tops, supports only a few specially adapted species due to extreme cold, low sunlight, and short growing seasons.
A tundra habitat
What is a food web?
food web, a complex network of interconnecting and overlapping food chains showing feeding relationships within a community.
The Arctic fox changes the color of its fur from brown in summer to white in winter. What type of adaptation is this, and how does it help the fox survive?
Seasonal camouflage
What are the strategies of Desert plant to survive harsh conditions?
Thick leaves, spines, bad taste
Why is Sonoran Desert more diverse than other deserts because it has this unique climate feature.
Two rainy seasons each year - More vegetation.