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Plants
Animals
Ecosystems
Plants and Animals Live Together
Food Chains
100
What are the four main parts of a plant?
leaves, roots, stems, and flowers
100
A trait that helps an animal meet its needs in teh place where it lives is called an _____________.
adaptation
100
Living and nonliving parts of an environment interact with eachother. This is called an ______________.
Ecosystem
100
A living thing that makes its own food is called a ____________.
producer
100
A consumer that is eaten by another consumer is called _________.
prey
200
Which gas enters plants through the tiny holes on teh underside of the leaves?
Carbon Dioxide
200
What is the second stage of the butterly cycle called, when it is a caterpillar.
Larva
200
All of the living things of the same kind that live in the same place is called a ___________________.
population
200
A living thing that eats food is a ____________.
consumer
200
A ____________ is a consumer that hunts for food.
predator
300
Trees that lose their leaves are called ____________.
deciduous
300
Animals with a backbone are called ____________ animals.
Vertebrate
300
A group of coyotes, ground squirrels, and plants live together. This is called a ____________.
community
300
A consumer that eats both plants and animals is called an _______________.
omnivore
300
Prairie grass is an example of a ____________. It passes energy to many animals on the Great Plains.
producer
400
At what stage of a plant life cycle does the plant begin to grow.
Germination
400
The fur color of an arctic fox changes with the seasons. This is an example of a defense mechanism called ___________.
camouflage
400
Which ecosystem has few plants due to the cold, dry conditions?
tundra
400
In a food chain, what is passed from one type of living thing to another?
Energy
400
Describe what hapens when one part of a food web is removed.
Answers Vary
500
What are young plants called?
seedlings
500
Many animals ___________, which means their body systems usually slow down to save energy.
hibernate
500
Which ecosystem is low land that is covered by water at least part of the year?
Wetland
500
A _____________ is a living thing that breaks down waste and living things that have died.
decomposer
500
Trees sometimes struggle with one another to get enough sunlight in a forest. This is an example of ____________.
competition