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Heredity/Food Chains
ecosystems, food chains, adaptations, heredity cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| special body feature or behavior that helps an organism stay alive | adaptation |
| adaptation that helps an organism blend in with its surroundings | camouflage |
| consumer that eats only animals | carnivore |
| an organism that eats other organisms in a food chain | consumer |
| an organism that feeds on and breaks down dead organisms in the food chain | decomposer |
| all of the interactive living AND nonliving things in an area | ecosystem |
| in danger of becoming extinct | endangered |
| species that has disappeared from the Earth | extinct |
| shows how organisms get food and energy | food chain |
| all the food chains in an ecosystem | food web |
| the area in which an individual organism lives | habitat |
| a consumer that eats only plants | herbivore |
| a consumer that eats either plants or animals | omnivore |
| a consumer that eats only insects | insectivore |
| a living thing | organism |
| an organism that lives in or on another organism and gets its food from it | parasite |
| an animal that kills and eats other animals | predator |
| an animal that is killed and eaten by other animals | prey |
| an organism in the food chain that makes its own food and serves as a source of food for other organisms | producer |
| a group of organisms that are the same | species |
| a characteristic of an animal that is learned | acquired trait |
| a characteristic or a plant or an animal that is received through heredity (its genes) | inherited trait |
| the smallest living part of an organism | cell |
| the way that traits are passed from one generation to the next | heredity |
| rod shaped structures found in the nucleus of your cells that contain your genes | chromosomes |
| units of heredity that carry your DNA and are found on your chromosomes | genes |
| the outside of the cell - holds the cell together | cell membrane |
| the genetic blueprint of an organism that is found in your genes - no two people have the same | DNA |
| behaviors that are inherited at birth | instincts |