A | B |
Adaptation | Any structure or behavior that helps a living thing meet its needs for survival. |
Camouflage | Any coloring shape or pattern that allows a living thing to blend (hide) into its surroundings. |
Endangered | A population that is falling low in numbers, and is in danger of becoming extinct. |
Extinct | A species that is no longer existing. |
Fossil | Any mark or remains of a plant or animal that lived a long time ago. |
Hibernation | A long deep sleep in which an animals heart rate and breathing are much slower than normal. |
Host | A plant or animal that is harmed by another living thing (parasite) living off of it. |
Migration | The movement of an animal from one location to another location as the seasons change. |
Parasite | A plant or animal that feeds off of another living thing and harms it. |
Pollution | Anything harmful added to the air, land or water. |
Recycle | To use the same materials over and over again. |
Symbiosis | A special way that two different kinds of living things live together. |
Carbon dioxide | A gas found in air that is used by plants to make food. |
Carnivore | A consumer (animal) that eats other consumers (meat). |
Chlorophyll | The green substance found in plants that traps energy from the sun and gives plants their green color. |
Consumer | A living thing that gets energy by eating plants and other animals. |
Decomposer | A consumer that put materials from dead plants and animals back into the soil, air, and water. |
Ecosystem | All of the living and non-living things in an environment (area) and how they interact. |
Food Chain | The flow of energy through a community. A line of organisms that are consumed by the next organism that shows how the energy is passed. |
Food Web | All of the food chains in a community. |
Habitat | A place where an animal or plant lives. |
Herbivore | A consumer (animal) that eats plants. |
Omnivore | A consumer (animal) that eats both plants and other consumers. |
Photosynthesis | A process by which plants change light energy from the sun and use it to make energy. |
Predators | An animal that hunts and kills other animals for food. |
Prey | The animals that predators hunt. |
Producer | A living organism that uses sunlight to make sugar (food). |
Scavenger | An animal that eats dead animals. |
bio | life |
carnivore | animal that eats meat or flesh |
cycle | circle, wheel |
fossil | dug up |