What may occur if a dam is built in a river by villagers preventing their village from flooding; beavers will move up river to build their home or fish and frog population will increase?
Beavers will move up river to build their home.
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Why might the number of deer in an area increase when humans build houses there?
Predators of deer moved away when humans built their homes.
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Rabbits in a forest that experiences seasonal change from temperate to snowy would be most likely to have what color fur?
White
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What is the term for a position or place?
Location
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A small fish swam away from an ocean area because of an increase in temperature. What could happen to large fish that consume smaller fish if the small fish leave the area?
Large fish would most likely perish.
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What is the definition of survive?
To be able to live successfully.
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What is the term that means to make new offspring?
Reproduce
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What is the environment?
The living and nonliving things around an organism.
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What is the term for the place or environment in which an organism naturally lives?
Habitat
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A company clears trees from the land to build a power line. What will happen to the birds that live in this area of land?
They will fly away because there is less shelter.
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A road is built through a forest. The change to the environment would be MOST harmful to animals that depend on which behavior for survival; traveling across the forest on the ground, or hiding from predators in shallow water?
Traveling across the forest on the ground.
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A drought is a long period of time with little rainfall. Which adaptation would MOST help a plant survive a drought; storing water, or growing quickly?
Storing water
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An organism is eaten by a predator. If the predator population increases, what will happen to the prey population?
It will decrease.
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Wildfires burn down acres of trees. This environmental change is most harmful to which organism; one that hides from predators high in trees or one that flies to warmer temperatures in the winter?
One that hides from predators high in the trees.
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Some animals are adapted to survive harsh conditions. These animals have tightly packed feathers and a layer of fat insulating their bodies. These adaptations make them well suited to what sort of environmental change?
A long period of cold temperatures.
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What is a process by which an organism slows its life functions for an extended period of time to preserve energy or to resist harsh conditions?
