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Ecology

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Q1. What is an animal with a backbone called?

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A1. Vertebrate

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Q2. What is an animal without a backbone

called?

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A2. Invertebrate

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Q3. What do we call a cold-blooded land

animal that lays eggs?

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A3. Reptile

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Q4. What are flying animals that evolved from the dinosaurs

called?

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A4. Birds

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Q5. What do we call an animal that gives birth to

live young?

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A5. Mammal

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Q6. What do we call an animal that lives on land

and in the water?

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A6. Amphibian

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Q7. What do we call an animal that eats meat?

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A7. Carnivore

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Q8. What do we call an animal that catches and

eats other animals?

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A8. Predator

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Q9. What do we call an animal that is caught and eaten by another

animal?

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A9. Prey

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Q10. What do we call the natural world in

which humans, animals, and plants live?

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A10. Environment

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Q11. What do we call the natural place where a plant or animal lives, like a forest, desert, or

riverbank?

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A11. Habitat

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Q12. Name a solid object that has a square base and a point at the

top?

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A12. Pyramid

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Q13. What do we call a self-contained

community that interacts with the environment?

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A13. Ecosystem

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Q14. What do we call a strip of ground along

which ecological population

measurements are made at regular

intervals?

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A14. Transect

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Q15. What do we call A diagram that shows the

transfer of energy as one animal eats

another? (It always starts with a plant)

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A15. Food chain

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Q16. What do we call a square hoop used to define a set area for

counting a population?

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A16. Quadrat

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Q17. What do we call a life-essential chemical

like nitrogen, phosphorus or

potassium?

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A17. Nutrient

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