Living Things
Another word for a living thing.
What is an organism?
A change in behavior or body parts that allow living things to survive in their environment.
What is an adaptation?
The place where organisms make their homes.
What is a habitat?
Things found in nature that are useful to organisms.
What are natural resources?
Organisms that can't get energy directly from the sun and therefore have to eat plants only.
What are consumers? (or herbivores)
Materials in food and soil that living things need for growth and energy.
What are nutrients?
The way that living things act in a certain situations.
What is a behavior?
Any harmful materials in the environment that spoil the air, land, and sea.
What is pollution?
Organisms must do this if there is not enough of a resource for all that need it.
What is compete for the resource?
These things do not move, grow, use energy, or reproduce.
What are nonliving things?
All the living and nonliving things that surround an organism.
What is an environment?
Spots or stripes that make it hard to see organisms in their environment.
What are markings often called camouflage?
When an animal leaves its habitat to find a warmer place to live it is called this.
What is migration?
Food, water, and shelter are examples of these.
What are resources or basic needs?
Living things eat because they need this.
What is energy?
The living and nonliving things that exist and INTERACT in one place.
What is an ecosystem?
A bee's dance is an example of this.
What is a behavioral adaptation?
The environment or habitat of a blue whale.
What is the ocean?
Organisms need this in addition to food and water.
What is living space?
The tiny critters that feed off of bodies that used to be living are called this.
What are decomposers?
Responding to surroundings, growing and developing, and reproducing.
What are the three main actions of living things?
An animal that hibernates in winter.
What are bears?
An animal best suited for living in a very cold climate.
What is a polar bear, penguin, or seal?
A group of different plants and animals that live in one place and interact with each other.
What is a community?
Water, air, sunlight, soil, and dinosaur fossils are ALL examples of this.
What are nonliving things found in the environment?