Living and Non-Living Things Vocabulary
Habitats and the Environment
Living and Non-Living Things
Habitats and the Environment
Review
100

Living factors of the environment

What is biotic factors?

100

Is this an example of a habitat? 

What is yes?

100

Is a computer alive?

What is No?

100

All living and nonliving parts of Earth

Environment

100

This is the process by which soil and rock are removed from a location and transported to another

What is erosion?

200

non-living factors in the environment

What is abiotic factors?

200

This hot and dry habitat covers about 20 percent of the Earth's surface.

What is a desert?

200

This process allows plants to create their own food using sunlight.

What is photosynthesis? 

200

To stay alive; to continue to exist

What is Survive?

200

This is known as the powerhouse of cell.

What is mitochondria?

300

A community of organisms and their abiotic (non-living) environment

What is Ecosystem?

300

This is the contamination of the environment by harmful substances. 

What is pollution?

300

The process by which water moves from the soil into plants and then evaporates from the surface of leaves

What is transpiration?

300

This type of rain is caused by air pollution and can harm forests and lakes.

What is acid rain?

300

This is behavioral adaptation where animals go into a deep sleep during the winter to converse energy.

What is hibernation?

400

Tiny parts of living things that carry everything needed for life

what is cells

400

How do people change habitats?

A. They change the habitat's latitude

B. They bring storms to the habitat.

C. They build cities in place of the habitat.

D. All of the above.

What is C. They build cities in place of the habitat

400

What two words are opposite?

A. Respond and Reproduce 

B. Living and Nonliving

C. Cells and Energy

What is B. Living and Nonliving?

400

This is the removal of trees from a forest, often leading to habitat loss.

What is deforestation?

400

An imaginary line that circles Earth halfway between the poles

What is Equator?

500

A large region defined by a particular climate and specific animal and plant communities

What is Biome?

500

This cold, treeless region is found in the Arctic and Antarctic. 

What is the Tundra.

500

The process by which cells convert glucose (sugar) and oxygen into energy, carbon dioxide, and water

What is Cellular respiration?

500

Changes in an organism or species that allow it to survive better in its environment

What is adaptation?

500

The weather conditions in an area over a long period of time

What is Climate?