Predator an animal that hunts other animals for food
Carnivore an animal that eats only animals
Herbivore an animal that eats only plants
Camouflage the ability to blend in with surroundings
Photosynthesis the process that plants use to make energy (produce food) from sunlight
a living thing (green plant) that
Producer makes its own food through
photosynthesis
a living thing that obtains
Consumer (gets) energy by eating other
living things
a living thing that breaks down
Decomposer
the remains of dead organisms
an area in which
Ecosystem living and non-living
things interact
a natural or
controlled
Habitat environment in which
plants and animals
live
to move to another
Migration region as the seasons
change
a deep sleep that
Hibernation helps some animals
to survive the winter
new living things
produced by
Offspring parents, or the
young of plants
and animals
Reproduction to produce offspring
Extinction the permanent disappearance of all living things of a certain kind
Endangered an animal or plant in danger of becoming extinct or dying off
behavior or part of a living thing that helps it to survive in a certain
Adaptation
environment
chemicals that plants and animals need to
Nutrients
survive
the path of energy
Food
transfer from one living
chain
organism to another
the overlapping food chains that link
Food web producers, consumers and decomposers
in an ecosystem
Organism living thing
the stages that an organism goes through
Life Cycle
during its life
a gas in the air that is needed by green
Carbon Dioxide
plants to make food
a gas in the air that is given off by green
Oxygen
plants and needed for animals to survive
the second stage of growth for some
Larva kinds of insects, such as a caterpillar or
mealworm
the third stage in the life cycle of an
Pupa insect undergoing a complete
metamorphosis
a change in form that some animals go
Metamorphosis
through in developing
