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What is a herbivore?
Organism that only eats plants.
What is a carnivore?
An organism that eats other organisms.
What is an omnivore?
Eats both animals and plants.
What is at the very beginning of a food chain?
Sunlight.
What makes up a food web?
Many food chains combined together.
Give three examples of ecosystems.
Desert, ocean, wetland, etc.
What is a producer? Give an example.
An organism that makes its own food. Plant.
What is a consumer? Give an example.
An organism that eats another organism. Lion.
What is a decomposer? Give an example.
An organism that breaks down dead organism material. Bacteria.
Three examples of decomposers?
Bacterial, ant, worm, etc.
What is a habitat?
Where an animal lives and seeks shelter.
What does climate mean?
The pattern of weather in a place over a long period of time.
What is soil made of?
Bits of rock and humus
What is humus made from?
Broken down plant and animal material.
What type of ecosystem is a desert?
An ecosystem with a dry climate
What is an ecosystem?
Where living and nonliving things interact with their environment.
Name the five oceans in the world.
Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic, Southern & Indian.
What is an adaptation?
A structure that helps animals survive in their ecosystem.
What is camouflage?
The ability for an animal to hide and blend into their surroundings.
What is the purpose of blubber?
Stay warm.
What is a food chain?
Shows how energy passes from one organism to another in an ecosystem.
What does nocturnal mean?
To sleep during the day time and to be active at night time.
Animals hibernate because.....
To survive when seasons change
What does migrate mean?
Animals moving to another location for better weather/food sources.
Mimicry is similar to which?
Camouflage.