Biomes, Food Chains, Animal Adaptions And Recycling Flashcards

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What is warning colour?

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Colours or markings that warn the other animals to stay away

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What is adaptions?

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Special stricter sand behaviours that help an organism to succeed in its ecosystem

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Why don’t birds eat orange and black striped butterflies?

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Because they taste sour

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What is mimicry?

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An adoption that involves looking like another living thing

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What is camouflage?

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The ability to blend in with your surroundings

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What are attractants?

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Some living things attract other living things with colours or smells

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What are the three classified categories?

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Structural , physiological , behavorial

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What is structural?

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Special parts of the body

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What is physiological?

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How the body functions

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What is behavioral?

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How it behaves

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Ecosystems are always what?

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Changing

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List Three natural changes in ecosystems

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Drought, flood, forest fires

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What are some man-made changes to an ecosystem?

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Forest clearing, landfills, forest fires

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What are the main three causes of droughts?

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Not enough water, not enough plants, not enough herbivores

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What are the main causes for floods?

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Water covers plants so they don’t get any sunlight, not enough plants, not enough herbivores, loose their habitat…

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What are long term causes of forest clearing?

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Herbivores will die or move, less oxygen will be created, different plants and animals

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What are long-term changes in landfills?

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They lose their habitat, scavengers and decomposers move into habitat, smell and pollution

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The process of the changing of ecosystems is what?

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Succession

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What is primary secession?

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When no community was there before

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What is secondary succession?

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This occurs after the partial or complete destruction

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Primary succession begins with what?

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What are first organisms called?

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Pioneer organisms

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_________ _________ transform the environment

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Pioneer organisms

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Pioneer organisms include what?

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Lichens, grasses, and weeds

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Insects are attracted to what?
The moss
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The presence of what helps create soli?
Insects
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Over time, other ______ will establish
Organisms
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What is a complex community?
Produces energy
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The size of populations of biotic elements are controlled by what?
Available food, predators, climate, suitable habitat
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Available food, predators, climate and suitable habitat are also known as what?
Limiting factors
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What is bio-invasion?
The introduction of foreign species into native ecosystems
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Where do native species occur?
Naturally in a given area
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True or false: and introduce Species is one that was brought to an environment where did not live before
True
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What is competition?
Living things struggling to meet their needs at the expense of other living things
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What is sustainability?
The ecosystems ability to continue or sustain itself
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Community garbage is sent where?
Landfills
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Using _____ , _____ and ______ again reduces solid waste.
Containers , tools and materials
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Benefits of a sustainable environment can be what?
Financial, social, or environmental
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Environment cost is the what?
The loss of habitat, freshwater, and clean air