Habitats
What is a habitat?
Answer: A natural home or environment for a plant, animal, or organism.
What is an adaptation?
Answer: A trait or behaviour that helps an organism survive.
What is a herbivore?
Answer: An animal that only eats plants.
What is a producer?
Answer: A living thing that makes its own food.
What is deforestation?
Answer: The removal or cutting down of forests.
Name one thing every habitat must have to support life.
Answer: Food, water, air, shelter, or space.
What adaptation helps a hummingbird reach nectar deep inside flowers?
Answer: Its long beak.
What is an omnivore?
Answer: An animal that eats both plants and meat.
What is a consumer?
Answer: A living thing that gets energy by eating other organisms.
What is an invasive species?
Answer: A species that is not native to an area and can harm the ecosystem.
Which habitat is hot and dry and has low biodiversity?
Desert.
Why do snow leopards have white fur?
Answer: Camouflage in snowy habitats.
What is a carnivore?
Answer: An animal that only eats other animals.
What is a decomposer?
Answer: A living thing that breaks down dead plants and animals.
What does endangered mean?
Answer: A species is at risk of disappearing or becoming extinct.
Which habitat is cold and has very few trees because of low temperatures?
Tundra
What adaptation do turtles and snails both have?
Answer: Shells.
What are most humans?
Omnivores
In this food chain: Grass → Mouse → Snake → Owl, which organism is the producer?
Grass
Name one way humans can help protect habitats.
Answer: Plant trees, reduce pollution, recycle, create protected areas, etc.
What is the difference between surviving and thriving?
Answer: Surviving means meeting basic needs to stay alive; thriving means growing and developing well.
A duck has webbed feet. How does this adaptation help it survive?
Answer: It helps the duck swim more efficiently.
A rabbit eats grass and is eaten by a fox. What type of consumer is the rabbit?
Answer: Herbivore.
Give an example of a decomposer.
E.g. Mushrooms, Worms
If a forest is cut down, what are two impacts that might happen to the animals living there?
Answer: Loss of shelter, loss of food, population decline, migration, increased competition.