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Animal Adaptations Vocabulary

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EnvironmentEverything that surrounds and affects a living thing.
HabitatThe place where an animal lives.
CommunityA group of plants and animals that live in the same area.
BiomeThe world's major communities.
AdaptationThe behavior or part of a living thing that helps it survive in a certain environment.
Food ChainThe path that energy takes as one living thing eats another.
BehaviorThe way an animal usually acts.
ProducerA living thing that makes its own food.
ConsumerA living thing that eats plants, animals, or other living things.
HerbivoreAn animal that eats only plants.
CarnivoreAn animal that eats only other animals.
OmnivoreAn animal that eats both plants and animals.
DecomposerA consumer that feeds on dead things and animal droppings.
PredatorAnimals that hunt other animals for food.
PreyAnimals that are hunted by predators.
Endangered SpeciesA kind of pland or animal that is so few in number it is close to extinction.
ExtinctionThe dying out of all living things of a certain kind.
CamouflageThe ability to blend in with the surroundings.
MigrateTo travel to a new place to find food.
HibernateTo go into a deep sleep.


Cindy Graves

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