Ecosystem Flashcards
What is a commuinity?
Where a group of different organisms live and interact with each other in ONE PLACE.
What is an ecosystem?
The living and non living things in an environment and their interactions.
An animal or plant’s special role in their habitat is called their?
Niche
When a tadpole lives in the water and then on land when it becomes a frog, it is changing its?
Niche
Learned, instinctive behaviors are___________? An animal may change these to meet different needs.
Behavioral adaptations
By passing laws to protect habitats, we can best help to?
Protect and increase wildlife populations
Habitat destruction is the main reason that animals become?
Endangered or threatened
_____________ such as bacteria break down dead trees to return the material to the food chain.
Decomposers
Plant, tadpole, fish, snake describe what a ______________ may look like.
Food chain
What feature of an animal’s skull would it use to grind food?
Its teeth
An adaptation is a certain body part or behavior that helps an animal?
Survive in its environment.
A community is a group of organisms in one place that?
Live and interact together.
The energy that flows through the food web starts with?
The sun
An animals shape, color, and special features or attributes such as the claw on a bear are called?
Structural adaptations
If one plant species disappear from its community, how would that community be affected?
There would be a decrease in the number of consumers.