Ecosystems

Color or pattern that helps an animal blend in with its habitat
Adaptation: polar bears in the Artic

• Hibernation
• Locomotion
• Camouflage
• Migration

What is an adaptation?

• A feature or behavior that helps an animal survive.
• The food that an animal eats.
• How energy moves in a food web.
• How animals evolve throughout time.

Which sentence best describes the environmental changes caused by a flood?

• Roads become too wet to drive on and we get a week off of school.

• Areas normally dry become covered in water.

• A new habitat has been created providing a new place for ocean animals to live.

• Earth gets dry and breaks down causing it to blow away.

What is a habitat?

• The space where a plant or animal lives

• A collection of all of the populations in an area at the same time.

• A group of one kind of living thing living in the same area at the same time.

• All of the nonliving things and living things that interact in the same space.

Which ecosystem gets very little rainfall and is very warm during the day and cool at night?

• desert

• grassland

• tide pool

• tropical rain forest

Which type of ecosystem makes up most of Earth?

• pond

• ocean

• desert

• grassland

What is the name for living things that eat only plants?

• producers

• consumers

• herbivores

• carnivores

A consumer that eats mostly meat is called _________________.

• consumer

• omnivore

• carnivore

• herbivore

Temperature, light, air, water, and soil are all  _____  parts of the environment

• alive
• biotic 
• abiotic
• living

What does it mean to survive?

• To stay alive
• To grow
• To have energy
• To be born