Science Vocabulary
Any living thing, including plants and animals.
Organism
Energy passes through each living organism through this.
Food Chain or Food Web
List 5 vertebrates
Answers will vary
This is sorting things in groups based on similar characteristics.
Classification
This eats only meat
Carnivore
A non-living thing and living thing in an ecosystem.
ALL food chains begin with this.
Sun
List 5 invertebrates
Answers will vary.
Describe one adaptation of a toad.
Camouflaged, can hop, top side is poisonous
This gets it energy from sun and water.
Producer
Everything that surrounds and affects and organism (another name for a habitat or biome)
Environment/Ecosystem
Describe a decomposer (Hint: it is at the very end of the food chain)
It breaks down dead things into soil.
True or False. All reptiles, fish, mammals, and birds are vertebrates.
True
A cheetah is part of the animal kingdom. Describe it with at least 3 groups.
Biotic, mammal, animal, vertebrate, carnivore
This eats both plants and animals.
Omnivore
Name two living factors that affect a painted turtle.
Worms, algae, snapping turtles, hawks, etc.
Create a food chain for a sunfish in Lake Minnewaska.
Sun - algae - sunfish-human
What is the hard "shell" called in some invertebrates.
Exoskeleton
Name 3 adaptations of a red-tailed hawk.
Talons, eye sight, feathers, camouflaged
Name the 6 types of animals classification
Mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, insects and amphibians
Name two non-living factors that affect Timmy the turtle.
Water, light, rocks, soil, etc.
Create a food chain for a wood duck.
Sun - algae/plant -Wood duck Fox - Hawk - Fungi
Describe the function of the exoskeleton (spiders, beetles, grasshoppers and other invertebrates have these).
To protect and support it.
Becoming better suited for your environment is this.
Adaptation
What do all food chains start with?????
Sun!!!!!