Studying Ecosystems: Rainforest Vocabulary

What is the definition of an ECOSYSTEM?

• Everything that exists in a particular environment, includes living and nonliving things.

• A change in a plant or animal that makes it better able to live or survive in a particular place or situation.

• A place that provides food and protection for animals from predators and other animals that may cause harm.

What is the definition of the word SURVIVE?

• A change in a plant or animal that makes it better able to live or survive in a particular place or situation.

• To remain alive; to continue to live and exist in different conditions.

• A place that provides food and protection for animals from predators and other animals that may cause harm.

What is the definition of the word SHELTER?

• An imaginary circle around the middle of the Earth that is the same distance from the North Pole and the South Pole.

• To remain alive; to continue to live and exist in different conditions.

• A place that provides food and protection for animals from predators and other animals that may cause harm.

What is the definition of an ADAPTATION?

• To remain alive; to continue to live and exist in different conditions.

• A change in a plant or animal that makes it better able to live or survive in a particular place or situation.

• An imaginary circle around the middle of the Earth that is the same distance from the North Pole and the South Pole.

What is the definition of a HABITAT?

• The place or type of place where a plant or animal naturally and/or normally lives or grows.

• A change in a plant or animal that makes it better able to live or survive in a particular place or situation.

• A place that provides food and protection for animals from predators and other animals that may cause harm.

What is the definition of the EQUATOR?

• A change in a plant or animal that makes it better able to live or survive in a particular place or situation.

• An imaginary circle around the middle of the Earth that is the same distance from the North Pole and the South Pole.

• A place that provides food and protection for animals from predators and other animals that may cause harm.