Plants, Animals, & Seasons
During this season, there is less direct sunlight, fewer hours of daylight, and the temperatures go down
What is winter?
Most plants are considered ______ because of their ability to make their own food.
What is a producer?
An animal that only eats plants
A rest period for plants
What is dormancy?
A living thing
What is an organism?
A state with a milder winter where plants can grow year round
What is California or Florida?
An animal that hunts, catches, and eats other animals is considered a...
What is a predator?
Know as "nature's recyclers", these living things feed on wastes and remains of plants and animals
What are decomposers
An animal that only eats other animals is considered..
What is a carnivore?
A living thing that can't make its own food and must eat other living things to survive
What is a consumer?
Manatees travel back and forth from Florida to the coast of Louisiana and Virginia as water temperatures change with the seasons. This is called
A group of food chains that overlap
What is a food web?
Vultures, blue crabs, worms, and millipedes are all examples of
What are scavengers?
An inactive state
What is hibernation?
An organism that eats dead things
What is a scavenger?
A maple tree looses its leaves in the winter. It is not dead, but saving energy. It is in a state of what?
What is dormancy?
Who eats what
An animal that eats both plants and other animals is considered a...
What is an omnivore
The ability to do work
What is energy?
All living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions; a community
What is an ecosystem?
A snake barely uses its energy in the winter, lowers its body temperature, and its heart barely beats. What is this called?
What is hibernation?
____ is transferred along the food chain through producers and consumers. Some of it is lost from one organism to the next in the form of heat.
What is energy?
Lions and crocodiles are examples of...
What are carnivores?
The process of using energy from sunlight to produce food for a plant
What is photosynthesis?
The transfer of food energy in a sequence of living things; a series of organisms that depend on one another for food
What is a food chain?