4th Grade Life Science Review

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.

Why is it important for you animals to use camouflage?

• it warns predators to stay away
• it startles them with a flash of color
• it makes them look dead so predators won't eat them
• it hides them from predators while their parents are away

What does it mean to hibernate?

• To change your physical characteristics
• To sleep for an extended period of time during the winter
• To travel to a warmer location
• To eat all the oreos

_________ is when animals move from one place to another due to seasonal change, following a food or water source, or to find a mate and give birth.

• body covering
• omnivore
• migration
• herbivore

Why is a deer classified as a herbivore?

• A deer makes its own food.
• A deer eats only plants.
• A deer eats only animals.
• A deer eats plants and animals.

Why is a racoon classified as an omnivore?

• A racoon eats only animals.
• A racoon eats only plants.
• A racoon makes its own food.
• A racoon eats plants and animals.

A living organism that puts materials from dead  plants and animals back to the soil is called a ____________?

• carnivore
• decomposer
• herbivore
• omnivore

Why are plants called producers?

• They make carbon dioxide
• They decompose
• They make their own food
• They are omnivores

Living things that eat other living things are called...

• Consumers
• Carnivores
• Omnivores
• Animals

What are the living and nonliving things in an environment or area?

• predator

• producer

• ecosystem

• abiotic factor