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7C Feed Relat @AJHS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adaptations | The features that plants and animals have to help them live in a particular place. |
| carnivore | An animal that only eats other animals. |
| chemical energy | A stored form of energy found in food. |
| choice chamber | Equipment that allows scientists to test how environmental factors affect organisms. |
| community | All the plants and animals that live in a habitat. |
| consumer | An organism that has to eat other organisms to stay alive. Animals are consumers. |
| daily changes | Changes in the physical environmental factors which happen during a day (e.g. it gets dark at night). |
| deciduous tree | Tree that drops its leaves in winter (e.g. oak tree). |
| decomposer | Something that eats dead plants. |
| distribution | The places where an organism can be found in a habitat. |
| environment | The conditions around a certain organism caused by physical environmental factors. |
| evergreen tree | Tree that keeps its leaves in winter (e.g. pine tree). |
| food chain | A way of showing what eats what in a habitat. |
| food web | Many food chains linked together. |
| habitat | The place an organism lives in (e.g. woodland). |
| herbivore | An animal that only eats plants. |
| hibernation | When animals hide during the winter and go to sleep. |
| microhabitat | Small areas of a habitat with certain conditions (e.g. under a log in a woodland habitat). |
| migration | When animals move to different areas of the world depending on the season. |
| nocturnal animals | Animals that are active at night. |
| omnivore | An animal that eats both plants and other animals. |
| physical environmental factors | The non-living conditions in the environment of an organism (e.g. temperature, light). |
| pooter | A small container connected to two tubes. Used to catch tiny animals. |
| predator | An animal that catches and eats other animals. |
| prey | An animal that is caught and eaten by another animal. |
| producer | An organism that is able to make its own food. Plants are producers. |
| quadrat | A square frame, thrown randomly on the ground, which is used to sample plants in an area. |
| sample | A small part of something. If you sample something you take a small part of it. You use your results from the small part to suggest what the rest of it is like. |
| seasonal changes | Changes in the physical environmental factors of an environment which happen during the course of a year (e.g. it gets colder in winter). |
| sweepnet | A net which is swept through long grass to catch tiny animals. |
| top predator | The last animal in a food chain. |
| tree beating | Hitting the branches of a tree and collecting small animals that fall out. |