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Life Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| All the living and nonliving things around you are called what? | environment |
| A group made up of the same kind of individuals living in the same ecosystem is known as what? | population |
| What are the living parts of an ecosystem known as? | biotic factors |
| What are the nonliving parts of an ecosystem known as? | abiotic factors |
| What is it called when harmful substances mix with water, air, or soil? | pollution |
| What is any living thing that can make its own food called? | producer |
| Since animals cannot make their own food and must eat plants or other animals, what are they called? | consumer |
| What type of animal eats only plants (producers)? | herbivore |
| What type of animal eats only other animals? | carnivore |
| What type of animal eats both plants and other animals? | omnivore |
| What is a living thing that feeds on wastes and the remains of dead plants and animals called? | decomposer |
| What is an environment that meets the needs of a living thing called? | habitat |
| What is the movement of food energy in a sequence of living things called? | food chain |
| What are consumers that eat prey called? | predators |
| What are consumers that are eaten called? | prey |
| What do several food chains that overlap form? | food web |
| What is a trait? | a characteristic an organism receives from its parents |
| What is heredity? | the process by which traits are passed from parents to offspring |
| What is a life cycle? | all of the stages a living thing goes through, from the beginning of one generation to a next |
| What do ferns and plants related to ferns reproduce by instead of seeds? | spores |
| What is it called when an organism is identical to its parents, but it just gets larger like a spider? | direct development |
| What is it called when an offspring does not look like the adult (think butterfly)? | metamorphosis |
| What are the changes a plant or animal goes through from birth to the beginning of a new generation called? | life cycle |
| What are the basic needs of living things? | food, water, air, and shelter |
| What is a body part or behavior that helps a living thing survive called? | adaptation |
| What is a behavior you are not born with that helps you survive called? | learned behavior |
| What is it called when animals move from one region to another? | migration |
| What is a behavior that animals are born with that helps them survive called? | instinct |
| What is a dormant, inactive stage called? | hibernation |
| What is evidence of a plant or animal that lived long ago called? | fossil |
| What means that all of the members of a certain kind of living thing have died? | extinction |
| What are the five kingdoms of living things? | plants, animals, bacteria, fungi, and protists |
| What type of animal has a backbone? | vertebrate |
| What type of animal does not have a backbone? | invertebrate |
| What do all the living and nonliving things in an area form? | ecosystem |
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