Adaptations
Adaptations are a characteristic of an organism that help it _________.
What is survive?
Plants are known as __________ because they can make and store their own food.
What are producers?
Organisms can only _________ in environments where their needs are met.
What is survive?
_________ activities in farming, industrial plants, and everyday life can have major effects on environments.
What is human?
A predator is usually on the "hunt" for _____?
What is prey?
What is reproduction?
Organisms such as fungi and bacteria are considered __________.
What are decomposers?
Healthy ecosystems often have many species of ______ and ______.
What are plants and animals?
What is conservation?
This is main source of energy that helps plants make glucose (sugar).
What is the sun?
Some animals ___________ to another area for certain seasons.
What is migrate?
Food energy of almost any kind of animal can be traced back to these.
What are plants?
Newly introduced species of organisms can sometimes _________ or upset the balance of an ecosystem.
What is damage?
_____________ puts limits on how many animals a person can hunt and fish.
What is regulation?
This is the process of plants using solar energy to change CO2 and water/nutrients into glucose and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
Adaptations are either structural (physical) or ____________.
What is behavioral?
Most animals are known as these because they must get their nutrition from plants or other animals.
What are consumers?
Organisms obtain gases and water from the environment and release ______ matter back into the environment.
What is waste?
Ex: Plants take in CO2 and release O2
Animals consume plants/animals and release waste on the ground.
Any substance that damages the environment is called ________.
What is pollution?
If a monkey eats both plants and some insects, it is an __________.
What is an omnivore?
This is a physical adaptation that allows some organisms to be hidden from predators.
What is camouflage?
Food provides animals with the materials they need for body repair, growth, and _______ .
What is energy?
Decomposers _________ waste materials and return them as nutrients into the soil of an environment.
The Zebra Mussel is an example of a ____________ species that was brought to the U.S. from Russia.
What is non-native?
Food chains and food webs are both ways to show the transfer of this between organisms in an ecosystem.
What is energy?