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A place where a plant or an animal lives.
What is a habitat?
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True.
True or false: Humans have positive and negative impacts on habitats and communities.
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Behavioural adaptations are actions of an animal that help them survive.
What are behavioural adaptations?
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Structural adaptations are physical features of an animal that help them survive.
What are structural adaptations?
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A food chain shows the transfer of energy within an ecosystem (plants and animals).
What is a food chain?
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Animals that hunt and eat other animals.
What is a predator?
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True.
True or false: Positive impacts that humans have on natural habitats are protecting endangered species and cleaning lakes and seas.
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True
True or false: An example of behavioural adaptation is an oppossum pretending dead.
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True
True or false: An example of structural adaptation is polar bears being born with a warm coat of fur to stay warm.
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Herbivore: Animals that eat only plants.
Carnivore: Animals that eat only other animals ("meat eater"). Omnivore: Animals that eat both plants and other animals.
What's the difference between a herbivore, a carnivore and omnivore?
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Animals that are hunted and eaten by other animals.
What is prey?
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True.
True or false: Negative impacts that humans have on natural habitats are cutting down trees, littering and effects from global warming.
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True
True or false: An example of behavioural adaptation is birds flying south in the winter.
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False.
True or false: Birds migrating south in the winter is an example of structural adaptations.
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Producers: Make their own food. The beginning of a food chain.
Primary consumers: Also known as herbivores. Second stage in a food chain. Secondary consumers: Also known as carnivores. Third stage in a food chain.
What's the difference between producers, primary consumers and secondary consumers?
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