Science chapter 4 Vocabulary

a material found in nature that used by living things

• community

• instinct

• resource

• mimicry

the imitating the look of another animal

• mimicry

• camouflage

• ecosystem

• instinct

colors, patterns, and shapes that disguise an animal and help it hide

• camouflage

• habitat

• mimicry

• adaptation

to travel from one place to another and back again

• community

• habitat

• environment

• migrate

to go into a deep, sleep like state for winter

• instinct

• mimicry

• hibernate

• resource

a behavior that an animal knows without being taught

• hibernate

• instinct

• desert

• migrate

any trait that helps a plant or an animal survive

• instinct

• adaptation

• desert

• population

an ecosystem in which many trees grow

• ecosystem

• desert

• forest

• grassland

an area of land that is generally hot in the summer and cold in the winter.

• grassland

• desert

• forest

• habitat

an ecosystem that is very dry

• grassland

• desert

• forest

• ecosystem