Animals
This type of animal breathes and lives in the water, lays eggs, and has fins.
What is a fish?
Mostly found in forests, this type of plant can be deciduous or evergreen.
What are trees?
This ecosystem is made up of freshwater. Some plants that live here grow under water, while others have their roots under the water. Animals like frogs, fish, ducks, and insects live here.
What are ponds?
Scientists use this technique to sort living things with similar characteristics. It's important to use this technique to understand how they're similar and different.
What is classification?
This type of animal eats other animals.
What is a carnivore?
This type of animal flies, lays eggs, lives on land and has wings.
What is a bird?
This type of plant grows in an ecosystem that shares its name and can be either long or short.
What is grass?
This ecosystem has both long and short grasses. Not many trees live here, but horses, rabbits, and mice do.
What are grasslands?
This type of classification is based on where living things live.
What is an ecosystem?
This type of animal eats plants.
What is a herbivore?
This type of animal has a backbone, are warm-blooded, has either hair or fur, and give birth to live young.
What is a mammal?
Much like its namesake, this type of plant grows underwater in freshwater ecosystems such as ponds.
What is pondweed?
This ecosystem is where the sea meets the land. These can be beaches, mangroves, or coral reefs. Many animals live here, such as fish, turtles, and birds.
What are coastal ecosytems?
This type of animal classification uses blood type(s).
What are warm blooded and cold blooded animals?
This type of animal eats plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
This type of animal doesn't have a backbone, has no eyes, and lives in the dirt.
What is a worm?
This type of plant has petals, can come in many different colors and sizes, and are fragrant.
What are flowers?
This type of ecosystem is mostly covered in trees. Providing oxygen that living things need for respiration. Can be made up of evergreen trees or deciduous trees.
What are forests?
This type of animal has a backbone and includes mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians.
What is a vertebrate?
This living thing eats other living things.
What is a consumer?
This animal doesn't have a backbone, has it's "house" on it's back, and eats a range of plants and fungi.
What is a snail?
This type of plant has roots, does not flower, and reproduces with spores.
What is a fern?
Non-living things that exist in an ecosystem. These are important because living things need this to grow, eat, and reproduce. Examples include: sunlight, wind, water, and oxygen.
What are abiotic factors?
This type of animal doesn't have a backbone and includes worms, arthropods, echinoderms, and molluscs.
What is an invertebrate?
This living thing makes its own food.
What is a producer?