Which of these statements is true about animal adaptations?
Most animals do not need adaptations to survive.
Most animals do not have adaptations.
Adaptations happen very quickly.
Adaptations help an animal live in its environment.
Adaptations help an animal live in its environment.
100
What are characteristics that help an animal survive in its environment?
Adaptations
100
What are organisms that hunt and consume food called?
Predators
100
Name an animal that is a carnivore.
Any animal that eats only meat.
100
Place these organisms in the correct order to create a food chain.
Plants
Owl
Mice
Plants
Mice
Owl
200
What is a system of organisms and environment working together?
Animals
Plants
Ecosystem
Ecosystem
200
Name an adaptation of a polar bear.
White fur, thick fur, great sense of smell, thick layer of blubber under fur, sharp claws and teeth, fur is hollow.
200
What is a single living thing called?
Organism
200
Name an animal that is an omnivore.
Any animal that eats both meat and plants.
200
Place these organisms in the correct order to create a food chain.
Foxes
Plants
Birds
Snails
Plants
Snails
Birds
Foxes
300
What is a type of living thing?
Species
Consumers
Pollination
Species
300
What are colors or patterns that blend with an organism’s environment?
Camouflage
300
What are organisms that break down plant and animal remains into soil nutrients?
Decomposers
300
Name an animal that is an herbivore.
Any animal that eats only plants.
300
Name one organism that is a predator.
Any animal that hunts and eats another animal.
400
What is a place where an animal lives called?
Ecology
Habitat
Producer
Habitat
400
Why are the beaks of hummingbirds long and thin?
So that they can get the nectar from flowers easily.
400
Name one negative effect of over-population in an area. (Over-population occurs when there are too many of a certain organism living in an ecosystem.)
Too little food/starvation, too many smaller animals for awhile.
400
What is the study of the interactions between organisms and their environments?
Ecology
500
What is a group of interacting species sharing a habitat?
Community
Ecology
Organisms
Community
500
How do the stripes on a zebra help it survive?
They blend in with the environment and make it hard for predators to see them.
500
What are organisms that make their own food called?
Producers
500
What would happen in an ecosystem if the top two predators in an area were no longer there?
The other organisms would have over-population and eventually die.
500
We studied 6 different factors that can affect habitats. List 3 of them.
Weather, ground features/landforms, availability of water, food sources, available sunlight, and space available.