Ecosystems

What is an adaptation?

• Where an animal lives

• a special skill which helps an animal to survive and do everything it needs to do

• Where an animal is in the food chain

What is a structural adaptation?

• physical things that include body color, body covering, beak type, or claw type

• things organisms do to survive such as hibernation and migration

What are behavioral adaptations?

• physical things that include body color, body covering, beak type, or claw type

• things organisms do to survive such as hibernation and migration

What is an individual animal, plant, or life form called?

• A community

• A population

• An organism

More than one of the same organism in the same place is called a

• Organism

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

A group of populations that live in the same place is called a

• Organism

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

All of the populations and the nonliving components in an environment together are called an

• Organism

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

What is a habitat?

• The place or kind of place in which an animal or plant naturally lives

• What an animal eats

• A type of animal adaptation

What is a niche?

• The function that an organism performs in the food web of that community.

• The place or kind of place in which an animal or plant naturally lives

• a group of populations that live in the same place

What are living things, such as plants, that can make their own food

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer