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Living Things
Adaptations
Habitats
Competition
Living/Nonliving
100
another word for a living thing
What is an organism?
100
a behavior or body part that helps a living thing survive in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
100
a place where an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
100
things found in nature that are useful to organisms.
What are resources?
100
organisms who can't get energy directly from the sun and therefore have to eat plants.
What are consumers?
200
Materials in food and soil that living things need for growth and energy
What are nutrients?
200
the way an animal typically acts in a certain situation.
What is a behavior?
200
any harmful material in the environment.
What is pollution?
200
Organisms must do this if there is not enough of a resource for all that need it.
What is compete for the resource?
200
this does not move, grow, use energy, or reproduce.
What is a nonliving thing?
300
all the living and nonliving things that surround an organism.
What is an environment?
300
spots or stripes that make it hard to see organisms in their environment.
What are markings?
300
a fast growing vine that rapidly changes the environment in which it grows.
What is kudzu?
300
Food, water, and shelter.
What are resources?
300
the ability to cause change.
What is energy?
400
the living and nonliving things that exist and INTERACT in one place.
What is an ecosystem?
400
A bee's dance is an example of this.
What is a behavioral adaptation?
400
the environment of a blue whale
What is the ocean?
400
Organisms need this in addition to food and water.
What is living space?
400
the tiny parts that make up all living things.
What are cells?
500
Respond to surrounding, grow and develop, and reproduce.
What are the three main actions of living things?
500
adaptations for self-defense.
What are behaviors and structures?
500
an animal best suited for living in a very cold climate.
What is a polar bear (or any other animal known to live in a cold climate)?
500
a group of plants and animals that live in the same area and interact with each other.
What is a community?
500
water, air, sunlight, soil, dinosaur fossils
What are nonliving things found in the environment?