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Seitz Living Systems
Living Systems ?
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A __________________ or _________________adaptation allows an organism to stay alive. | structural/ physical |
| Name several physical adaptations. | Body color, body covering, beak type, claw type. |
| Name two ways animals use body color. | For camouflage and to attract a mate. |
| Body covering is used to __________ an animal from its environment. | Protect |
| Claws and beaks are physical adaptations to help animals get _______________. | Food |
| What do behavioral adaptations do for living things? | Gives them activities or actions to fulfill their basic needs of water, food, shelter, and protection. |
| What is a food chain? | How energy moves from one living thing to another. |
| What is the beginning of all food chains? | The sun. |
| What is a producer? | Plants because they use sunlight to make their own food. |
| What is a consumer? | A living thing that must eat other living things to live. |
| What is a decomposer? | A living thing that only eats or consumes dead plant and animal material |
| What is a food web? | Two or more food chains joined together. |
| What is a niche? | The place a living thing has in the food chain or web. What it eats and what eats it. |
| What is habitat? | The place where a living thing lives. This is the place where it gets food, water, shelter and space |
| What is an ecosystem? | Plants and animals interacting with each other and their surrounding. |
| How do people negatively affect ecosystems? | By removing habitat and polluting |
| How can people positively affect ecosystems? | By not polluting and by protecting areas for animals. |