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animals/ecosystems
5th grade science vocabulary for animals and ecosystems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| metamorphosis | a change in the shape of characteristics of an organism's body as it grows |
| complete metamorphosis | the four stages of an insect's life (egg, larva, pupa, and adult)where the larva and pupa do not look anything like the adult |
| incomplete metamorphosis | the three stages of an insect's life (egg, nymph, and adult) where the nymph is similar in appearance to the adult |
| adaptation | behaviors or body parts that help organisms survive in an ecosystem( example - birds have webbed feet for swimming; hyenas hunt in packs to drive away cheetahs.) |
| invertebrate | animals without a backbone, including mollusks, spiny skins, stinging cells, worms, arthropods, and sponges |
| vertebrate | animals having a backbone, both warm and cold blooded, including birds, mammals, fish, amphibians, and reptiles |
| cold-blooded | animals having a body temperature that adjusts to the temperature of their environment (example - snakes) |
| warm-blooded | animals having a constant body temperature (example-human) |
| instinct | a behavior that an organism inherits |
| migration | the movement of animals from one locations to another because of temperature change |
| learned behavior | a behavior an animal learns from its parents |
| food chain | the flow of energy through a community in an ecosystem |
| food web | the relationships between many different food chains in a single ecosystem |
| producer | organisms that use sunlight to make the food they need from carbon dioxide and water |
| consumer | organisms that must eat to get the energy they need |
| decomposer | consumers that break down the tissues of dead organisms (example - mushrooms and bacteria) |
| predator | animals that hunt other animals for food |
| prey | animals that are hunted by other animalsd |
| herbivore | first-level consumers that eat producers |
| carnivore | second-level consumers that eat first-level consumers(herbivores) |
| omnivore | third-level consumers that eat first- and second-level consumers (herbivores and carnivores) and producers |
| energy pyramid | shows the amount of energy available to pass from one level of the food chain to the next |
| ecosystem | a community and its physical environment together |
| habitat | a place where every population lives in an ecosystem (neighborhood or community) |
| niche | the role of a population in its habitat |
| camouflage | patterns of body color that allow an animal to stay in hiding |
| mimicry | an organism has a similar outer appearance to a different organism (example - viceroy butterfly mimics the monarch butterfly) |
| pollution | any waste product that damages an ecosystem |
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