Vocabulary (Part 1)
The relation between two organisms that benefit each other.
What is mutualism?
Main sources of energy for all living things.
What are the Sun and producers (food)?
The latitude, elevation, climate, land, water, plants, and animals can be different from one another.
What is why there are so many different types of habitats on Earth?
It might fall into an ocean and grow on an island. A breeze might carry it down a mountain. It might stick to a dog and wind up in someone’s backyard.
What are ways that a seed might travel to a new place?
The place in which a plant or animal lives and receives what it needs to survive.
What is habitat?
When one organism benefits from another by causing damage.
What is parasitism?
An organism in a food chain that is able to make its own food.
What is a producer?
A grassy field with prairie dogs, grasshoppers, and wheat plants and how they interact is an example of this.
What is a habitat or ecosystem or biome?
A monkey’s tail that can grip branches.
What is a physical adaptation?
A green pigment in leaves that allows a plant to absorb the sun's light energy. |
What is chlorophyll?
The relationship between two species of organisms.
What is symbiosis?
The interconnected feeding relationships within an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
People cutting down trees, and the soil being washed away by rain is an example of this.
What is erosion?
Cotton shirts, paper books, and wooden buildings.
What are items made by using only plant materials?
A specific change to a physical feature or behavior of a species that helps the species to survive.
What is adaptation?
a consumer that obtains food energy by breaking down the remains of dead plants and animals.
What is a decomposer?
The number of predators decreases.
What happens when a population of consumers decreases?
People build cities in place of habitats.
What are ways people can change habitats?
Sweating, shivering, and communication are examples.
What is human adaptations?
When one organism benefits from another without damaging it.
What is commensalism?
How plants make their own food using water, carbon dioxide (from the air), and energy from the sun.
What is photosynthesis?
leaves -> deer -> wolf
This is an example of what.
What is a food chain?
DAILY DOUBLE
All living things needed for survival.
What are food, shelter, space, waste removal, air and water?
Reflexes and instincts are examples.
What are behavioral adaptations?
DAILY DOUBLE
1. Animals that eat only other animals.
2. Animals that are hunted and eaten by a predator.
3. Animals that eat both plants and animals.
4. Organisms in a food chain that break down organic matter.
5. Organisms in a food chain that eat other organisms, especially live ones.
6. Animals that eat only plants.
7. Animals that hunt and eat other animals to survive.
8. Animals that eat animals that are already dead.
What are
1. carnivores
2. prey
3. omnivores
4. decomposers
5. consumers
6. herbivores
7. predators
8. scavengers