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GA 3rd Habitat Voc.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A place where plants and animals live | habitat |
| Animals and plants that live in the water | Aquatic |
| The place where the ocean meets the land | Coast |
| The movement of animals from one place to another | Migrate |
| Animals that nurse their young with milk | Mammals |
| Animals that are covered with scales, like lizards and snakes, or with shells, like turtles | Reptiles |
| Flexible bones, like the bones in human noses and ears | Cartilage |
| Animals that hunt other animals for food | Predators |
| No longer existing | Extinct |
| Islands that protect the mainland from the wind and waves of the ocean | Barrier Islands |
| Land that is covered with salt water all or most of the time | Salt Marsh |
| Places that protect young animals or plants while they grow | Nurseries |
| Sand or soil being worn away by wind and water | Erosion |
| A hole that an animal digs in the ground for protection | Burrow |
| A way an animal hides by looking like its surroundings | Camouflage |
| Young trees | Seedlings |
| Animals that eat only plants for food | Herbivores |
| A type of plant that is hard to control | Invasive |
| A plant or animal that grows in a place naturally | Native |
| Areas of land that are covered in a water all or part of the time | Wetlands |
| An animal that is poisonous | Venomous |
| To be in danger of becoming extinct | Endangered |
| Dead plant or animal material | Decay |
| Plants that eat insects and other tiny animals | Carnivorous Plants |
| Changes in behavior that an animal or plant makes to live or survive | Adapt |
| Food and chemicals that living things need to live and grow | Nutrients |
| The type of conditions an organism lives in | Environment |
| To sleep through the winter season, when food is scarce | Hibernate |
| A change in behavior that helps a plant or animal fit better into its environment | Adaption |
| A living thing | Organism |
| A type of tree that loses its leaves in the fall | Deciduous |
| Animals that hunt for food at night | Nocturnal |
| An animal that only eats other animals for food | Carnivore |
| An animal that eats both animals and plants for food | Omnivore |
| Animals eaten by predators | Prey |
| An animals or bird’s claws | Talons |