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Ecosystems
Plants
Animals
Changes in Ecosystems
Adaptations
100
These are the living things that you will find in an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
100
Plants are the main source of this entering food chains.
What is energy?
100
Some animals are attracted to this sweet drink inside a flower.
What is nectar?
100
This can make living things sick, and even cause temperature changes in an ecosystem if there is too much.
What is pollution.
100
This adaptation helps animals hide by blending into their environments.
What is camouflage?
200
This type of ecosystem gets less than ten inches of rain per year and can have extremely high and low temperatures.
What is a desert?
200
This is produced by plants for the animals in an ecosystem to breathe.
What is oxygen?
200
This is the process by which animals help plants reproduce by spreading around their seeds.
What is seed dispersal?
200
This is when there may not be enough water for living things in an ecosystem to survive.
What is a drought?
200
This adaptation helps animals hide by looking just like another organism.
What is mimicry?
300
These are the nonliving things that you will find in an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
300
This is the process by which flowering plants reproduce.
What is pollination?
300
When very few members of a species of plants or animals are left.
What is endangered?
300
This are the change in behavior and habits that animals make when their ecosystems change.
What is accommodataion?
300
The study of how organisms pass traits from one generation to the next.
What is genetics?
400
This type of ecosystem can get as much as 180 inches of rain each year!
What is a rain-forest?
400
Almost all animals depend on plants for these two things.
What are food and shelter?
400
When there are no members of a species of animal left.
What is extinct?
400
A fire can be good for an ecosystem because it prevents this from happening.
What is overcrowding?
400
This arctic animal actually has black skin under its fur to help it absorb heat from the sun.
What is a polar bear?
500
This is formed by animals that are no longer living, and may be home to many ocean animals.
What is a coral reef?
500
The part of a flower that holds the female cells needed for reproduction.
What is the pistil?
500
This bird used to have only 22 of its kind left. Now, it has more than 200!
What is the California condor.
500
When people recycle or reuse items, it cuts down on trash and uses fewer of these in an ecosystem.
What are natural resources?
500
This sea animal confuses its predators by looking just like floating seaweed!
What is a leafy sea dragon?