Transfer of Energy Food Web | Inherited vs Learned | Beak Structures Effects on Bird Survival | Overpopulation and Food Scarcity | Animal Defense |
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What is a food web
All food chains in a community that are linked to one another.
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Organisms
All living things are_____? |
A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
Species
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Population
The number of an organism that lives in an ecosystem
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no longer existing on the Earth
Extinct
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What is A living thing that uses sunlight to produce food.
Producer
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The act of making new organisms
Reproduction is? |
Predator
I hunt and eat other animals what am I? |
The concept that resources are limited
Scarcity
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Invertebrate
an animal with no backbone
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Both organisms benefit from the relationship.
Mutualism
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Heredity
The passing of traits from parent to offspring during reproduction is ____?
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The average span of time between the birth of parents and that of their offspring
Generation
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What are resources?
Food, water, and shelter. Things that help organisms survive
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a species of plant or animal of which numbers are decreasing at an alarming rate and is threatened with extinction by human-made or natural changes in the environment.
Endangered species
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Environment
Animals sleep, eat, live, and thrive in their______? |
Animal behavior that developed from observation or instruction rather than being passed down.
Learned behavior
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The role an organism plays in it environment.
Niche
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What is overpopulation
An excess amount of organisms living in an ecosystem
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taking care of our environment by wisely managing its resources
Conservation
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A scavenger
I consume dead things what am I ? |
An inherited trait A characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring during reproduction
My mom has curly hair, when she had me I came out with curly hair. My curly hair is______. |
A competition a relationship between organisms in which one is harmed when both are trying to use the same resource related to growth, reproduction, or survivability.
When a male lion cub grows up they often challenge other male lions to establish their position as leader of the pack. What would the challenge be called? |
Food shortage: This occurs when the need for food is greater than the availability of food
If your at the store and there are five people who need a food item and there are only three left that would be called? |
Adaptation-any body part, behavior, or physiological capability that increases an animal's ability to survive in its environment.
If I get sick and my body develops anti bodies to fight of the disease it makes it much less likely that that disease will affect me again. When my body developed anti bodies to fight off the germs in my environment it was using _________ to increase my chances of survival
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