Living Things Flashcards
(27 cards)
An animal that eats other animals
carnivore
An ecosystem that is very dry and where you will find cacti, sand and a camel
desert
Food chains that overlap
food web
A group of organisms of the same kind that live in the same place
population
To travel from one place to another and back again. Geese fly in a V-shape south for the winter and return to the north in the spring.
migrate
An ecosystem where you will find frogs, catfish and freshwater.
pond
A living thing that gets its energy by eating other living things as food.
consumer
A living thing that breaks down dead organisms for food.
decomposer
A behavior that an animals knows without being taught. For example, a chipmunk eating extra in preparation for hibernation.
instinct
A diagram that shows how energy gets used in a food chain.
energy pyramid
Colors, patterns, and shapes that disguise an animal and help it hide.
camouflage
A consumer that eats both plants and animals.
omnivore
The imitating of the look of another animal. A nonpoisonous snake will imitate a posonous snake to ttrick and scare away predators.
mimcry
The path of food from one living thing to another.
food chain
The place where an organism lives in an ecosystem.
environment
An ecosystem in which many trees grow. Kentucky has this type of ecosystem.
forest
Any trait that helps a plant or animal survive.
adaptation
To go into a deep, sleeplike state for the winter. Bears do this during the winter.
hibernate
The living and nonliving things that intteract in an environment
ecosystem
An animal that hunts another animal for food
predator
The things, both living and nonliving, that surround a living thing.
habitat
An ecosystem receiving lots of rain and is hot all year. Monkeys and jaguars make their homes here.
rainforest
A living thing that makes its own food (PLANTS).
producer
All the populations of organisms that live in an ecosystem at the same time.
community
