Ants eat a variety of foods and are notorious for ruining picnics and eating all the sweet dessert. Ants will eat anything from vegetable scraps to candy.
An ant's body is separated into three parts: the head, thorax, and gaster. The jaws help carry food and move objects around. The antennae allow ants to "smell" by detecting chemicals.
Most ants burrow into the ground and create structures called ant hills to live in. There are some ants that live up in trees.
Ants live in structures called ant hills. They need shelter, food, air, and water.
Trees can be used to make logs called timber. Timber is used to build the frames of buildings, especially houses.
Trees provide many animals, including humans, with food. Coconuts are just one of the several nuts and fruits that trees produce that are edible.
This pill bug, sometimes called a woodlouse, sow bug, or roly poley, is curled into a ball to protect itself. Pill bugs often do this as a defensive measure so that anything that might attack it has a harder time getting to its underside.
Snails can live in many different shells. The shells can be large or small, depending on the size of the snail and what kind it is. The shell can also be of a variety of colors. Other animals can also live in shells.
This Yellowstone National Park web site is dedicated to Lower Geyser Basin. It includes images and descriptions of Queen's Laundry and Sentinel Meadows, Sentinel Cone, Ojo Caliente, Pocket Basin Mud Pots, Imperial Geyser, Spray Geyser, Octopus Spring, Great Fountain Geyser, White Dome Geyser, Pink Cone Geyser, Bead Geyser, Narcissus Geyser, Steady Geyser, Silex Spring, Fountain Paint Pot, Fountain Geyser, Clepsydra Geyser, and Jelly Geyser.
This 48-page Teacher's Guide accompanies the "Glow: Living Lights" exhibit at the San Diego Natural History Museum. In PDF format, the guide contains 12 lesson plans that explore the chemical compounds and adaptations of bioluminescence, symbiosis, fireflies and other "glowing" terrestrial animals, dinoflagellates, ocean submersibles, blue vs. bright red light, the organization of life, defense, mating, and predator/prey mechanisms of bioluminescent organisms, human applications, and potential research and careers in science.
This Great Moments in Science radio transcript discusses the history of bioluminescence. It covers the first scientists to study bioluminescence, organisms capable of making light, biochemistry of the phenomena, and interesting stories. The audio version of this program can be downloaded and requires RealPlayer.
This Great Moments in Science radio transcript describes the three types of bioluminescence (bacterial, extracellular, and intracellular) and associated medical applications. The audio version of this program can be downloaded and requires RealPlayer.
Pill bugs usually live together in colonies in damp tree bark, soil, or under rocks. These pill bugs are actively using their antennae to move around and between the rocky surface and the soil.
The extreme environments of the thermal areas of Yellowstone are rich in microorganisms. These tiny life forms, existing in complex ecosystems, offer scientists clues to the origin of life on our planet. This electronic field trip allows students to explore the dangers and wonders of the hidden worlds of Yellowstone's hot colors.
This site provides information concerning wolves in Idaho and how they are being managed. Also provided are links to further reports about wolf habitats in Idaho.
Trees give animals shade and a place to live and hide. Trees give many animals food. They also take in carbon dioxide, which animals breathe out, and replace it with oxygen, which is what animals need to breathe.
The pill bug shows several behavioral responses such as curling up into a ball when being poked or attacked. The pill bug breathes through gills and mostly lives in moist environments because of its respiratory system.
Students use an inquiry approach to describe the major biomes of Minnesota before taking a look at adaptations that make organisms successful in their environments.
The pages represent an online biology textbook created by Prof. Kimball who taught at Harvard, Tufts, and Phillips Andover Academy before he retired. He now maintains this free biology book, constantly updated and set up for easy browsing and searching.
Land snails are invertebrates because they do not have a backbone. They are related to water snails, but they do not live in water.
