The Life Science Game Show
List 1
List 2
List 3
List 4
List 5
100
100
100
100
100
200
200
200
200
200
300
300
300
300
300
400
400
400
400
400
500
500
500
500
500
Vocabulary-1 for 100
________ is a plant’s
process of using energy
from the sunlight to make
food from water and
carbon dioxide.
What is photosynthesis?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-1 for 200
An animal that is hunted,
caught, and eaten by
another animal is called a
________.
What is prey?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-1 for 300
A young plant grown
from a seed is called a
__________.
What is a
seedling?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-1 for 400
An animal that hunts,
catches, and eats another
animal is called a _____.
What is a
predator?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-1 for 500
A _________ is an
organism that can make
its own food.
What is a
producer?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-2 for 100
A characteristic of an
organism is born with.
What is an
inherited trait?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-2 for 200
The sprouting of a plant
from a seed is called
________.
What is
germination?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-2 for 300
An animal that eats only
plants or plant products
is called a _________.
What is a
herbivore?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-2 for 400
_________ are behaviors
that an animal inherits
from its parents.
What are
instincts?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-2 for 500
________ is an insect
life cylcle that only has 3
stages.
What is
incomplete
metamorphosis?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-3 for 100
The role that an
organism plays in its
environment is called its
_____.
What is niche?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-3 for 200
A _______ is the
environment where an
organism lives.
What is a habitat?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-3 for 300
A characteristic that is
aquired or learned from
parent to offspring is
called ________.
What is a learned
behavior?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-3 for 400
_______ is a behavior
that an animal is born
with the ability to do.
What is an
instinct?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-3 for 500
An organism looking like
another kind of organism in
its environment so it can
escape predators or catch
prey is called ________.
What is mimicry?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-4 for 100
An animal that eats both
plants and animals is
called an _________.
What is an
omnivore?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-4 for 200
________ are physical
and behavioral
characteristics that allow
organisms to survive in
its environment.
What are
adaptations?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-4 for 300
Animals that usually
have sharp teeth and
powerful jaws.
What are
carnivores?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-4 for 400
A ______ is a living
organism that gets
energy from other living
things to survive. It
cannot make its own
food.
What is a
consumer?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-4 for 500
An animal or insect helps
plant reproduction by
eating or moving these.
What are seeds
and pollen?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-5 for 100
The path of food energy
from one organism to
another in an ecosystem
is called a ________.
What is a food
chain?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-5 for 200
An animal _______ is all
of the animals of the
same species that live in
the same place at the
same time.
What is a
population?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-5 for 300
The plant’s leaves are
skinny in an climate that
is low on_________.
What is water?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-5 for 400
_______ are organisms
like fungi and some
bacteria that break down
an digest dead materials
and wastes.
What are
decomposers?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.
Vocabulary-5 for 500
Having deep roots, broad
leaves, spines, or
brightly colored flowers
are all examples of
plant_____________.
What are
adaptations?
Push the Space Bar to check your answer.