Lesson1
What is the main idea and three details from the paragraph about Citrus Trees on page 89?
Main idea is Citrus trees belong to a specific group of plants because they share certain characteristics.
Detail 1: They grow well in warm climates.
Detail 2: They are flowering trees.
Detail 3: They produce fruit with thick skin and juicy pulp.
What is a kingdom?
One of the four main groups in the domain Eukarya.
How are the animals on page 97 alike?
Both animals are multicellular, move, and coot make their own food.
plants that do not have special tubes for carrying food and water to all its parts page 103
non-vascular
Smallest level of classification on the dichotomous key
species
Why should snakes be identified as nonvenomous or venomous?
It could help scientists and people know which snakes to not go near.
A group of similar organisms that can mate and produce offspring.
species
An animal has scales, and is cold-blooded. It lives in the water. What other information do you need to know before you can classify it? page 101
If it uses its lungs or gills. If its eggs have shells or not.
What advantage does a vascular plant have over a non-vascular plant? page 104
A vascular plant has tubes that carry food and water to all its parts. Vascular plants do not only live near water.
What does a vertebrate have that an invertebrate does not have?
a backbone
What is the main idea and two details of Reasons to Classify on page 91?
Main idea is Scientists use a classification system for organisms.
Detail 1: Easier for scientists to communicate.
Detail 2: Only one name for an organism.
What is phylum?
A group of similar organisms within a kingdom.
name two kinds of birds that cannot fly. page 99
Ostrich and penguin
vascular page 103
plants that have special tubes for carrying food and water to all its parts
How are plants similar to animals?
Plants and animals are multicellular organisms.
On page 92 What is one way a fungi are different from plants?
Fungi get their food from living and nonliving things.
What are two of the four kingdoms of Eukarya?
protists, fungi, plants, animals
How are both animals on page 97 different?
They are different because deer walk on land and birds fly.
a type of vascular plant that reproduces using cones and seeds page 104
conifer
How would scientists classify a vascular plant with no seeds - (fern, moss, conifer, or flowering plant)?
fern
What four animals come after the Ladybird spider on page 94?
Giraffe weevil, Black widow spider, Red slug, and Green scarab beetle.
A tool used to identify an unknown organism.
Dichotomous key
What animal has scales and does not have soft moist skin and therefore is not amphibian but a reptile. page 99
Turtle
How are conifers and flowering plants alike?
They are both vascular.
What makes mammals different from all other vertebrates?
They give milk to their young.