Helpful Definitions

Adaptation: Physical or behavioral change that allows an organism to better survive in the habitat

Conduction: Heat transfer through direct contact

Convection: Heat transfer through movement of a fluid

Ectotherm: An animal that cannot make its own heat and depends on outside sources to heat and cool its body

Electricity: The flow of charge is caused by attraction or repulsion between charged particles

Endotherm: An animal that makes its own heat and does not depends on outside sources to heat and cool its body

Energy: The capacity for doing work

Light: The type of electromagnetic wave of photons that is visible to the human eye

Metabolism: The chemical process of turning food into forms of energy in the body

Predator: An animal that hunts and eats another animal

Prey: An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal

Radiation: Heat transfer through electromagnetic waves

Sound: Vibrations causing mechanical waves