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A large community of living organisms (plants, animals
What is an Ecosystem?
Things which can grow, move, breathe and reproduce are called living things. These things can also feel emotions like anger, fear and happiness.
What are Living Things?
Another word for natural selection.
What is Evolution?
It is the variety of living things in a given space.
What is biodiversity?
Decomposers break down the decaying matter so that it turns into soil to be used by plants.
Why are decomposers important?
An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
What are organisms?
Things which cannot grow, move, breathe and reproduce are called nonliving things. They do not have any kind of life in them.
A Naturalist from Spain who coined the terms evolution and natural selection.
Who was Charles Darwin?
These plants have adapted by growing long narrow stems that allow them to grow out of the water so they can getsunlight. The narrow stem allows them to not be affected as much by the water.
What are cattails?
Wetlands store water and reduce water flow.
How does wetlands prevent flooding?
Land or areas (such as marshes or swamps) that are covered often intermittently with shallow water or have soil saturated with moisture — usually used in plural.
What are wetlands?
Sunlight, water, air, food (nutrients), and a habitat with the ideal temperature.
What do organisms need to survive?
The animals who are best able to survive in their environment.
What "survival of the fittest"?
Exampes: “flippers”, Barbed wire and Canoes
What Technological Development have Humans used based on animal traits?
Plants produce their own food via this process.
What is photosynthesis?
a group of living organisms consisting of similar genes that can
What are species?
Egg -->Tadpole -->Young Frog-->Adult Frog
What is the life cycle of a frog?
Seed-Germination-Growth-Reproduction–Spreading Seeds
What is the Life Cycle of a Seed Plant?
One makes its own food through photosynthesis (plants) and the other eats other plants and animals for food.
What is a producer and a consumer?
One eats other animals, one eats only plants and the last one eats both plants and animals.
What is the difference between a carnivore, herbivore, and an omnivore?
The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
What is a habitat?
Air, water, light, warmth, and space.
What are the 5 basic survival needs for a plant?
Examples: webbed feet, camouflaging their colour to blend into the environment, having different breathing mechanisms that allow them to breathe underwater, and eyelids that allow them to see underwater.
What are animals adaptations to life in a wetland?
Bacteria and fungi that eat decaying matter in the form of dead plants and animals.
What is a decomposer?
When an entire animal or plant species dies, meaning there are no individual animals of that species alive anymore.
What is Extinction?