What occurred on each day of creation?
What are some land biomes?
What are three types of consumers?
What are some parts of the food chain?
What are some cycles in nature?
How do animals react to environmental change?
What biome is extremely cold with permafrost and almost no trees?
Hint: Found near the Arctic; the ground stays frozen
What biome is the largest land biome, with coniferous (evergreen) forests?
Hint: It's south of the tundra; lots of pine and spruce trees
What biome has four seasons and trees that lose their leaves in fall?
Hint: Deciduous means the trees shed their leaves
What biome is dominated by grasses with few trees?
Hint: Prairies in North America and savannas in Africa are examples
What biome receives less than 10 inches of rain per year?
Hint: It can be hot or cold, but always very dry
What biome is warm year-round, gets heavy rainfall, and has the most biodiversity?
Hint: Found near the equator; think Amazon
What are the levels of biological classification from broadest to most specific?
Hint: King Philip Came Over For Good Spaghetti
What mnemonic helps remember the order of taxonomy?
Hint: K-P-C-O-F-G-S
What shows the transfer of energy from one organism to another?
Hint: Sun -> grass -> rabbit -> hawk is an example
What type of organism makes its own food from sunlight?
Hint: Plants and algae are examples
What type of organism eats other organisms for energy?
Hint: Animals that eat plants or other animals
What type of organism breaks down dead organisms and returns nutrients to the soil?
Hint: Bacteria, fungi, and worms are examples
What is an animal that eats only plants called?
Hint: Deer, rabbits, and cows are examples
What is an animal that eats only other animals called?
Hint: Lions, hawks, and sharks are examples
What is an animal that eats both plants and animals called?
Hint: Bears, pigs, and humans are examples
What is a community of living things interacting with their nonliving environment?
Hint: A pond with its fish, plants, water, and sunlight is an example
What is a network of interconnected food chains in an ecosystem?
Hint: It shows that most organisms eat more than one thing
What is a close, long-term relationship between two different species?
Hint: It includes mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism
What type of symbiosis benefits BOTH organisms?
Hint: Bees pollinating flowers is an example — both benefit
What is a trait that helps an organism survive in its environment?
Hint: A polar bear's thick fur is an example
A camel's long eyelashes and water-saving body are adaptations for which habitat?
Hint: Think dry and sandy
A meadow plant feeds a rabbit, and the rabbit feeds a fox. Which organism is the producer?
Hint: A producer makes its own food
A polar bear's thick fur and fat layer are adaptations for which kind of habitat?
Hint: Think cold, ice, and snow
A squirrel living in trees is best matched with which habitat?
Hint: Trees are the clue
Which habitat is very dry and has plants adapted to save water?
Hint: Cacti are common examples
Thick fur is most useful for an animal in which biome?
Hint: Think cold
In the chain grass -> grasshopper -> frog, what role does the grass fill?
Hint: Producers make their own food
Mushrooms break down a dead log and return nutrients to the soil. What role are they filling?
Hint: They break down dead material
What is an ecosystem?
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
What is the 10% rule in ecology?
What is a biome?
What are the three types of symbiosis?
What is the difference between a habitat and a niche?
What is ecological succession?
Hint: Primary succession starts on bare rock; secondary succession follows a disturbance
What is carrying capacity?
What is an ecosystem?
What is a food chain?
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
What is a producer (autotroph)?
What is a decomposer?
What is the 10% rule in ecology?
What is a biome?
What is symbiosis?
What are the three types of symbiosis?
What is the water cycle?