Animal Science

4. – The place where an animal lives and finds what it needs to survive.
9. – When animals move from one place to another during certain seasons.
10. – An animal that usually starts life in water and may live on land later.
11. – A characteristic that can be passed from parents to offspring.
14. – All the members of one species living in the same area.
15. – An animal that hunts and eats other animals.
16. – The protection and careful use of natural resources.
17. Adaptation – A body feature that helps an animal survive.
19. Species – A species that is not native and causes harm to an ecosystem.
20. – An animal that eats only plants.
25. – A living thing that eats plants or animals for energy.
26. – A living thing that makes its own food using sunlight.
27. Web – A model that shows many connected food chains.
28. – A trait that helps an organism survive in its environment.
30. – A community of living and nonliving things that interact.

1. – A deep sleep some animals enter during cold months.
2. Loss – When an animal’s natural home is damaged or destroyed.
3. Adaptation – An action an animal takes to help it survive.
5. Capacity – The largest number of organisms an environment can support.
6. – An animal that eats both plants and meat.
7. Level – A step in a food chain or food web.
8. – An animal with hair or fur that feeds milk to its babies.
12. – An animal that eats only meat.
13. – A cold-blooded animal with scales.
18. Chain – A diagram that shows who eats whom in an ecosystem.
21. Species – A species that is at risk of becoming extinct.
22. Transfer – The movement of energy from one organism to another in a food chain.
23. – A living thing that breaks down dead plants and animals.
24. – The variety of living things in one area.
29. – An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal.