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Chapter 1
Question | Answer |
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habit | a behavior that is learned through practice |
communication | any behavior that lets animals share information |
learning | a change in behavior that comes about through experience |
instinct | an inherited behavior that an animal can do without ever learning how to do it |
behavior | a plant or animal action, reaction, or activity that occurs in response to stimuli (e.g. gravity, light, temperature) |
adaptaion | nherited characteristics (could be behavioral ?or physical) that help organisms survive or reproduce |
learned behavior | a change in behavior that comes about through experiences |
organism | a living thing (could be a plant or an animal) |
producer | an organism that makes its own food to survive (a plant) |
consumer | an organism in a food chain that obtains nutrients from producers or other consumers (has to EAT to survive) |
carnivore | an animal that gets its energy from eating other animals |
herbivore | an animal that gets its energy from eating plants |
omnivore | an animal that gets its energy from both plants and animals |
life cycle | the stages of an organism's growth and development |
complete metamorphosis | insects that develop into a changed organism through stages with one of them being the larval stage (butterflies, moths, flies) |
incomplete metamorphosis | type of insect development where the pre-adult looks like the adult (has only three stages- egg, nymph, and adult. The nymph looks like a baby adult) |
pupa | a stage in the life cycle of an insect that occurs between larva and adult )(the cocoon or chrysalis and a stage in complete metamorphosis) |
larva | an early stage in the life cycle of an organism that will undergo complete metamorphosis (looks like a worm and a stage in complete metamorphosis |
nymph | a pre-adult insect undergoing complete metamorphosis |
endangered species | a species whose population is so small that it's in danger of extinction. |
extinct species | a species that has died out and no longer exists (can be plant or animal) |
inherited trait | a trait or characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring by birth |
invertebrate | an animal without a backbone |
vertebrate | an animal with a backbone |
food chain | a diagram representing the transfer of energy from the Sun through producers and a series of consumers (arrows point to where energy goes) |
nutrient | a substance that an organisms needs to survive and grow (kind of like vitamins) |
reproduction | the process of making more organisms of the same kind |
species | a group of the same kind of organisms that can mate and produce offspring that can also reproduce |
population | all members of the same species living together at the same time in the same area |
environment | an area that includes all living organisms and the surrounding physical features such as air, water, soil, weather, and landforms |
community | populations of different species of organisms living together in the same geographic area. |
ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things that interact with each other in an environment |
predator | the organism doing the hunting |
prey | the organism that is being hunted |