Vocabulary
Food Chains
Adaptations
Food Chains #2
Animals
100
animal that is killed and eaten by another animal
What is prey?
100
arrangement that shows the order in which members of a community eat their food
What is a food chain?
100
a characteristic or behavior that helps and organism survive
What is an adaptation?
100
organism that feed on and breaks down dead organisms
What is a decomposer?
100
sensory organs attached to an insect's head
What is the antenna?
200
all the interacting living and nonliving things in an area
What is an ecosystem?
200
an organism that obtains food by eating other organisms
What is a consumer?
200
to act or look like another animal for protection
What is mimicry?
200
an animal population dies our or moves to find food
What is what happens when a part of the food chain is removed?
200
body part on a female cricket
What is the ovipositor?
300
place where an organism lives
What is a habitat?
300
green plants that produce food
What is a producer?
300
to conceal or disguise
What is camouflage?
300
to rot
What is decay?
300
the bottom of the three main body parts of an insect
What is the abdomen?
400
things in food that living things need for nourishment and growth
What are nutrients?
400
where the energy comes from in a food chain
What is the sun?
400
they blend into their surroundings by changing color
What is how anoles camouflage themselves?
400
Name your own food chain.
What is ????
400
the center of an insect's three main body parts
What is the thorax?
500
food chains connected together
What is a food web?
500
grass - cricket - anole
What is the food chain we observed in our terrariums?
500
used when anoles want to attract a mate or scare away predators
What is a dewlap/throat flap?
500
a chain follows one path, while a web goes in many directions
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
500
to lay eggs
What is the purpose of the ovipositor?