Animal Adaptations
Physical attributes that help organisms meet a life need
What are structural adaptations?
In a food chain, this organism uses sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to make sugar and oxygen.
What is: a producer?
The stages of growth and change in an organism's life
What is a life cycle?
A group of living organisms that are the same kind and live in the same place
What is a population?
The flow of energy from the sun through producers, consumers, and decomposers
What is a food web?
In a food chain where the greatest amount of energy in a community is found
What is: a producer?
All life in an ecosystem depends on producers to capture energy from the
What is the sun?
All the populations and the nonliving parts in an environment that interact with each form-
What is an ecosystem?
A community and its nonliving environment
What is an ecosystem?
4 examples of behavioral adaptations
What are: birds migrating; schools of fish traveling; bears hibernating; a squirrel that buried an acorn; etc.
Give an example of a producer, consumer, and decomposer.
Producer: Plant, tree
Consumer: lion, crab
Decomposer: Mushroom, worm
What are the four reasons why organisms live in a particular place?
What is: Food, Water, Shelter, and Space.
Each organism's home which provides food, water, shelter, and space
What is a habitat?
The organization of communities is based on the utilization of this energy.
What is: the sun?
4 examples of structural adaptations
What are: chameleon changing colors; webbed feet of a duck; giraffe's long neck; hard outer shell of a turtle; etc.?
These break down dead plants and animals.
What are decomposers?
Frogs go through several stages of life before they become adult frogs (Egg - tadpole - froglet) The process of changing from one form to another is known as
What is metamorphosis?
The function that an organism performs in the food web of a community
What is niche?
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How are structural and behavioral adaptation different?
One is about physical appearance (looks) and one is about actions.
Please describe what a producer, consumer, and decomposer are.
Producer: Make energy
Consumer: Eat producers & other consumers
Decomposer: garbage men - break down.
During an organism's life cycle, this can change.
What is: niche?
All of the populations of species in an area make up a -
What is: a community?
In a food web, an example of a predator and its prey
What are: fox - frog; weasel - mouse; bird - insect; etc.?