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100

Any living thing

What is an organism / biotic

100
What is an adaptation?
What is a physical feature or action that animals have or do to help them survive in their environment.
100
What is the smallest group in an ecosystem
What is an organism
100

What was the major problem Yellowstone National Park faced in the late 1800s/early 1900s?

All of the wolves were removed from the ecosystem.

100
Ways animals or animals act or how their body changes to help them survive in their environment
What are adaptations
200

Which is abiotic? A squirrel, two raccoons, a snake, a rock, a palm tree

What is a rock

200
How do humans "adapt"
What is clothes for different seasons, acting in school differently than recess, etc.
200
Describe a population
What is all of one kind of a species that lives in an ecosystem
200

What organisms were affected as a result of the wolves being removed?

Elk, deer, beavers, aspen trees, songbirds...

200
This biome is located on the poles of the globe and the community is made up of penguins, permafrost, and birds
What is the Arctic
300

Which of the following is an example of a biotic factor: a feather, water, a beetle, rocks, a waterfall

What is a beetle

300
What are two examples of how animals adapt to cold weather?
What is hibernating, gathering food, getting a thick coat of fur, black skin, etc.
300
Describe what would make up the community of coral reef
What is clown fish, jelly fish, seaweed, etc.
300

The disappearance of this species caused biologists to think climate change was affecting the area around Yellowstone at first.

What are aspen trees.

300
Which state, in the United States, is covered mostly by desert?
What is Arizona
400

Describe the difference between "nonliving" and "dead".

Nonliving refers to something that never had/has the ability to be alive; dead refers to a living organism whose life cycle has ended.

400
What are two ways plants adapt to living in the rainforest?
What is growing quickly, growing tall, needing a lot of water, being poisonous, etc.
400
Describe the difference between a habitat and a community
What is a habitat is the background of an ecosystem- the living plants and nonliving things- no animals. A community is all the living things (plants and animals) in an ecosystem
400

Once wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone, this species was almost immediately impacted.

What is the elk population.

400
Which type of living thing could adapt by hunting at night or shedding its coat
What is animals
500
In order to survive, all living things need:
What is space, shelter, air (oxygen), food, and water
500
Two types of adaptations
What is physical and behavioral
500
Describe an ecosystem
What is an area of land and all the living and nonliving things that interact within it.
500

How are the patterns of wolf and elk population related?

When the wolf population is lower, the elk population tends to be bigger, and when the wolf population is bigger, the elk population tends to be smaller. 

500
Another way to say plants and animals need oxygen, is saying they need...
What is air