| Question | Answer |
| Predator | An animal that kills and eats other animals |
| Scavenger | An animal that eats anything that is dead |
| Camouflage | a color or pattern which helps an animal blend into its' surroundings to avoid being seen by predators |
| carrying capacity | the greatest number of individual plants and animals a habitat can support |
| microhabitat | A microhabitat is a small habitat within a bigger habitat |
| Producer | Any organizer that can make its' own food. It also gets energy from the sun. |
| Consumer | Any living thing that cannot make its' own food. An example would be a rabbit! |
| habitat | A place where an animal lives or eats or sleeps. |
| ecosystem | An area that has both living and nonliving things. |
| Carnivore | Any living thing that eats meat |
| Herbivore | Anything that eats plants. A plant eater |
| Omnivore | A plant that eats both meat and veggies. It eats both plants and animals. |
| Prey | An animal that is killed or hunted by another animal is prey. What is an example of prey? |
| The food chain is what? | sun----> producer -----> consumer Remember the order!!! What is an example of a producer and consumer? |
| What do producers get energy from? | They get energy from the sun! |
| What does it mean to recycle? | It means to reuse useful materials of an object. Sometimes, we recycle glass bottles so they can be reused or turned into something else. |
| In the aquarium, which organism is the consumer? Is it the fish or the plant? | The fish |
| What do the fish breathe in, in the fish tank? | Oxygen |
| What do the fish in the fish tank breathe out? | They breathe out carbon dioxide or CO2 |
| What is a decomposer? Can you give me an example of one? | Example: mushroom, fungi, worms A decomposer is an organism that breaks down dead animals or plants into smaller pieces. |
| What are the three stages of the water cycle in order? | evaporation, condensation, precipitation |
| What is evaporation? | This is when the sun heats the water. The water then rises as a gas or "water vapor" into the air. |
| What is condensation? | Water Vapor cools and turns back into a liquid. |
| What is precipitation. Can you give me a few examples of precipitation? | Precipitation occurs when the clouds become too full. They cannot hold the liquid anymore. The liquid falls to the ground as rain, snow, sleet or hail. |
| Humans are examples of producer or consumer? | Humans are examples of consumers because we cannot make our own food. We must get food from somewhere else. |
| Which one is the predator and which one is the prey? A lion and a rabbit | rabbit: prey lion: predator |
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