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habitats
vocabulary 2
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La Brea Tar Pits
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carnivores
What are animals that eat only other animals?
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very dry, either hot or cold
what is a desert habitat?
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living things that make their own food
What are decomposers?
100
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bacteria
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Where are they located?
Los Angeles, California
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herbivores
What are animals that feed on plants
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cool and dry, with coniferous trees or cool and rainy, with deciduous trees.
Describe a forest habitat.
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an example of a decomposer on our spelling list
What is an earthworm
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earthworm
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Why is it called the tar pits?
because it is a bog, with water covering the bog. The bog contains a tar like substance.
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animals that eat both plants and animals
What are omnivores?
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Windy, partly dry sea of grass with few trees.
What is grassland habitat?
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a pond of tar that is covered with water
What is a tar pit
300
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spell habitat
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Why are there so many bones in the tar pits?
Why are there so many bones in the tar pits? Because animals got trapped in the tar and could not get out.
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consumers
What are living things in a food chain that eat other living things
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a path where one living thing eats another
What is a food chain?
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animals that hunt other animals for food.
What are predators?
400
spell c
spell cactus
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an extinct animal that was found in the tar pits
saber tooth cat
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decomposers
What are animals that break down dead animals so they become part of the soil
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biome
What is another word for habitat?
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animals that are hunted by predators
What is prey
500
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environment
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Dinosaurs existed 65 million years ago, long before the bones that were discovered there.
Why aren't there any dinosaur bones in the bog?