Science Unit 3 Flashcards
A place an organism lives in its ecosystem
Habitat
All the different populations living in the same place at the same time
Community
All living and nonliving living things that interact in a specific place
Ecosystem
A group of one kind of organism living in one place at the same time
Population
An ecosystem with certain plants, animals, and weather that covers a large area
Biome
An object that shows how something works or what something looks like
Model
An organism that used to live on earth but whose population completely died out
Extinct
Remains of a plant or animal
Fossil
A fossil that is the mark of a plant or animal
Imprint fossil
An organism whose population is in danger of dying out
Endangered
Organisms can be found in an ecosystem that is
Biotic
Rocks could be found in an ecosystem that is
Abiotic
Adaptations that help an animal to catch its food
A hawks talons
A spiders web
Wolves hunting in packs
This helps a predator to get food by helping the predator to sneak up to the prey
Camouflage
Helps a non poisonous king snake not be eaten by making the king snake look like the poisonous coral snake and so predators will not want to eat it
Mimicry
