| A | B |
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| adaptation | a change that helps living things survive in its environment |
| behavior adaptation | something done by living thing to help it live better |
| migration and hibernation | Give 2 examples of behavioral adaptation |
| structural adaptation | change in a physical characteristic to help a living thing live better |
| mimicry, camouflage | Give 2 examples of structural adaptations |
| organism | a living thing |
| shelter, food, space, and water | Name the 4 life needs |
| habitat | all the living and non-living things in the place an organism lives, [home] |
| niche | everything an organism needs or does, what it eats and what eats it in the environment |
| population | All the organisms of the same kind, in the same place, at the same time |
| community | all the populations living at the same time, in the same place |
| ecosystem | the living and non-living things in the environment |
| sun | source of energy for all ecosystems |
| herbivores | animals that eat only plants |
| carnivores | animals that eat other animals |
| onmivores | animals that eat both plants and animals |
| producers | plants that make their own food |
| consumers | eat producers and consumers to make food |
| decomposers | feed on dead material and waste products |
| earthworms, mold, bacteria, mushrooms | Give 4 examples of decomposers |
| predator | any animal that kills and eats other animals |
| prey | an animal hunted or killed by another |
| egg, larva, pupa/chrysalis, adult | Name the stages in the life cycle of the butterfly |
| egg, tadpole, froglet, adult | Name the stages in the life cycle of the frog |
| food chain | Path of energy from one organism to another |
| food web | food chains that overlap |
| producer, then consumer | These are always the first 2 links in the food chain |
