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Flashcards by Abdirahman mohamed, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Abdirahman mohamed
about 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Define the term habitat? | A habitat is where organisms live. |
| Define the term abiotic factors. | Abiotic factors are non-living factors that live in the environment. |
| List the resources provided by the environment? | They are food, water, shelter and living things, suitable temperature, mating partners for reproduction and gases such as oxygen. |
| What are biotic factors? | Biotic factors are living factors that include partners for mating, organisms to eat, and organisms they may compete with for food and shelter. |
| Define the word Adaptations? | Adaptations that assist organisms to survive and reproduce. Adaptations help organisms help get food, water, protect themselves, build homes and reproduce. |
| What Adaptations help the crocodile survive? | Fine sharp teeth to catch their prey, powerful legs and tail to move quickly on land and water, webbed feet to allow the crocodile to swim faster in water. |
| Define the word nocturnal? | Nocturnal means active or hunting at night. |
| Give 3 Adaptations that plants to survive? | Hooks on stems, leaves and long thin threads. |
| Give 6 different ways adaptations help animals? | Food, water, shelter, suitable temperature, partners and oxygen. |
| Give 6 different ways adaptations help plants? | Protect themselves from grazing animals, take in oxygen and carbon dioxide, take in water, capture light and reproduce. |
| What affects where animals live? | Predators that are looking for food. |
| What is the environment? | Environment is all the conditions that affect a plant or animal in its habitats. |
| What are ecologists? | Ecologists are scientists who study the interactions between living things and their environments. |
| Name 7 factors that change an environment? | Temperature, whether it is dry and wet, whether it is windy, the quality of the air, the water quality, type of soil, plants, animals, bacteria and fungi that live their. |
| What is the biosphere? | Biosphere is the place where all life exist; consists of Earth and its atmosphere |
| What is an ecosystem? | An Ecosystem is a balanced system formed by organisms interacting with each other and their non-living surroundings. |
| What does interdependence mean? | Interdependence means depending on each other for survival. |
| What is commensalism? | Commensalism is an interaction between two organisms where one of them benefits but the other is not affected. |
| What is mutualism? | An interaction between organisms where both organisms benefits from the relationship and neither is harmed. |
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