An animal that is hunted by another animal for food.
What is prey?
100
An animal that lives by hunting other animals for food.
What is a predator?
100
The result or consequence of something good
What is a beneficial effect?
100
The result or consequence of something causing injury or hurt.
What is a harmful effect?
100
All the living and non-living things interacting in a _____ environment
Looks like: dry, not many trees, grasses
What is a prairie ecosystem?
200
All the living and non-living things interacting in a _____ environment.
Looks like: wet, turtles, air, rocks, water, fish, frogs,
beavers, trees
What is a pond ecosystem?
200
populations of plants and animals living together in communities and interacting with other organisms and non-living things in a ______
Looks like: lots of trees, layers of leaves, green plants, many animals
What is a forest ecosystem?
200
coloring or covering that makes animals, people, and objects look like their surroundings
What is camouflage?
200
Signal from inside a plant or animal that causes a change in behavior
What is an internal cue?
200
Something on the outside of a plant or animal serving as a signal or suggestion to change behavior
What is an external cue?
300
An animal that eats only plants
What is a herbivore?
300
An animal that eats other animals;
an animal that eats meat
What is a carnivore?
300
An animal that eats both plants and
animals
What is an omnivore?
300
Organisms that eat other organisms to get the energy they need to survive; living thing that eats other living things for food
What is a consumer?
300
An organism that feeds on and breaks down dead plant and animal matter, which provides nutrients for other plants and animals
What is a decomposer?
400
A plant that makes its own food using energy from the sun
What is a producer?
400
The transfer of food energy from one organism to another beginning with energy from the sun to producers to consumers
What is a food chain?
400
air, space, temperature, sun/light, water and nutrients
What are the non-living things a plant needs to survive?
400
air, food, water, shelter and space
What are the non-living things an animal needs to survive?
400
The interaction between organisms, populations, communities and the non-living things
What is an ecosystem?
500
An example of this is when there is over population of a species because it's predator is no longer there.
What happens when one link of the food chain disappears?
500
Littering which can harm animals. An example is not cutting the plastic holders of soda with can get caught around animal's mouths and fins.
What is a harmful human interaction?
500
Joining the stream team! People work together to be sure our streams are kept clean and are safe for animals.
What is a helpful human interaction?
500
A fawn's white spots are used to help it blend it.
What is an example of camouflage?
500
An animal who is able to survive in a dry environment would most likely survive well in a ________ ecosystem.