Question | Answer |
adaptations | The features that plants and animals have to help them live in a particular place. |
community | All the plants and animals that live in a habitat. |
distribution | The places where an organism can be found in a habitat. |
environment | The conditions around a certain organism caused by physical environmental factors. |
habitat | The place an organism lives. |
microhabitat | Small areas of a habitat with certain conditions (under a log in a woodland habitat). |
physical environmental factors | The non-living conditions in the environment of an organism (light, temperature). |
quadrat | A square frame, thrown randomly on the ground, which is used to sample plants in an area. |
sample | A small part of something. You use your results from the small part to suggest what the rest of it is like. |
daily changes | Changes in the physical environmental factors which happen during a day (it gets dark at night). |
deciduous tree | Tree that drops its leave in winter (oak tree). |
evergreen tree | Tree that keeps its leaves in winter (pine tree). |
hibernation | When animals hide during the winter and go to sleep. |
migration | When animals move to different areas of the world depending on the season. |
nocturnal animals | Animals that are active at night. |
seasonal changes | Changes in the physical environmental factors of an environment which happen during the course of a year (it gets colder in winter). |