Adaptations
Food
What do you eat?
Living and nonliving
Ecosystems
100
A color or shape that helps an animal hide in its environment. Some reptiles can do this to blend in.
What is Camouflage?
100
A series of organisms that depend on one another for food.
What is a food chain?
100
I make my own food by photosynthesis from the sun.
What is a producer?
100
a living thing that feeds on waste and on the remains of dead plants and animals.
What is a decomposer?
100
all of the living and nonliving things surrounding an organism
What is an environment?
200
A dormant, inactive state in which normal body activities slow
What is hibernation?
200
What is an energy pyramid?
200
I am a consumer and I eat producers. Carrots are delicious.
What is an Herbivore?
200
food, water, air, and shelter that an organism needs to survive
What are basic needs?
200
A community and its physical environment together
What is an ecosystem?
300
the movement of animals from one region to another and back
What is migration?
300
Consumer that are eaten by predators
What are prey?
300
A sheep ate some grass. I ate the sheep.
What is a secondary consumer?
300
NONLIVING parts of the ecosystem that can affect all the living things in an ecosystem. These include sunlight, air, water, and soil.
What are abiotic factors?
300
All the individuals of the same kind living in the same ecosystem
What is a population?
400
behaviors that animals begin life with that help them meet their needs such as living in herds, spin webs, or crying.
What are instincts?
400
A consumer that eats prey.
What is a predator?
400
I eat only meat. Nothing else.
What is a carnivore?
400
living parts of the ecosystem that affect the ecosystem in many ways. Example: Bees pollinate flowers.
What are biotic factors?
400
The role of an organism in its habitat.
What is niche?
500
Human activity, large asteroids, and extreme changes in climate can cause a mass __________. A dying of a whole species.
What is an extinction?
500
A group of food chains that overlap.
What is a food web?
500
I eat everything - consumers, producers. I'm not picky.
What is an omnivore?
500
A living thing that can't make its own food and must eat other living things
What is a consumer?
500
All of the populations of organisms living together in an environment
What is a community?