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Organizing Life
Adaptations
Producers and Consumers
Microbes
Food Chains and Food Webs
100
A single living thing is called this.
What is an "organism"?
100
This is a particular adaptation used to allow certain creatures to blend in with their surroundings.
What is camouflage?
100
Breaking down matter is more appropriately called this.
What is decomposing or decomposition?
100
Microbes can be both positive and negative to living things. When microbes have a positive effect on living things, they're said to be this.
What are probiotics?
100
Identify the producers in your biome.
Producers include eucalypt trees, grass, photoplakton.
200
A system where living and non-living things interact with one another.
What is an ecosystem?
200
Echidnas when feeling threatened dig into the ground to protect their soft underbellies. This is a __________ adaptation.
What is a behavioural adaptation?
200
Photosynthesis is how plants make food. Plants contain this chemical used to absorb light energy to make their food.
What is chlorophyll?
200
This microbe is responsible for fixing nitrogen into the soil.
What is bacteria?
200
Identify the tertiary predator(s) in your biome.
Examples include dingo, eagle, kookaburra, shark.
300
It's the largest organization of of all ecosystems on a planet wherever living things are found.
What is a biosphere?
300
Examples of this adaptation includes webbed feet used for swimming, stingers to defend, and wings to fly.
What are structural adaptations?
300
In the following food chain, it's what the bear is. (be specific). Sun -> Grass -> Rabbit -> Grizzly Bear
What is a secondary consumer?
300
Moulds produced in your decomposing bread experiment are examples of these microbes.
What are fungi?
300
Lay out a food chain using four organsims in your biome. Draw in the arrows.
eg. Producer-1st order consumer-second order consumer- third order consumer.
400
Biomes are organized into large groups based on this.
What is climate?
400
Examples of these adaptations include poison.
What are physiological adaptations?
400
Showing different food chains interconnected is called this.
What is a food web?
400
Microbes do this in a landfill site.
What is decompose matter?
400
Identify all the first order consumers in your biome.
Any animal that is a herbivore is a first order consumer.
500
It's the biome where the following creatures would inhabit: spider monkeys, sloths, and fire ants.
What is a rainforest?
500
It is common for many Australian plants to be adaptated to this in order to reproduce.
What is fire adaptations?
500
In the following food chain, explain what would happen to the producer if mice were taken out. Sun -> wheat -> mice -> cats
What is increase the amount of wheat?
500
This type of microbe causes the flu.
What is a virus?
500
Lay out a food web using the organisms in your biome.
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