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1. What are organisms? Organisms are living things.

2. What do you call a place where an organism lives and reproduces? Habitat
3. What do habitat provide/give for organisms? Food and water
4. What do you call a group of organisms of the same kind that live together?
Population.
5. Different populations of plants and animals in a habitat make a
community.
6. There are 2 habitats:
a. Big/huge: a dessert
b. Small: a pond
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7. Factors that affect the survival and health of organisms are:
a. Living factors: food and the presence of other organisms.
b. Non-living / physical factors:
 Temperature * air
 Water * soil
 light
8. The measure of how hot or cold the environment is called temperature.
9. What happens if temperature is too high?
 Plants and animals may lose too much water
10. What happens if temperature is too low?
 Plants and animals may die because of extreme cold or lack of water
because the water freeze up everywhere.
11. Some environments can live in very hot or very cold environments.
12. Cactus
a. Where does the cactus store water? In its stem.
b. What is the function of needle-like leaves?
 To prevent it to lose to much water in the desert heat.
13. Polar bear
 Polars bear’s body has layers of fat and fur.
 What is the function of the fat and fur?
The keep them warm in the cold environment.
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