Animal Needs
What are the four needs of animals?
food, air, water, and shelter
What are the four parts of a life cycle of an animal?
What are the basic building blocks of life? Define tissue.
The basic building blocks of life are cells. A tissue is a group of cells that are all alike.
What do you call an animal without a backbone? Give two examples.
invertebrate
Examples: jellyfish, worm, spider, ant
What is an ecosystem?
An ecosystem is all the living and non-living things in a place.
Land animals breathe with _______. Animals that live underwater breathe through ________.
1. lungs
2. gills
Animals like butterflies, frogs, and chickens go through a change called _______________.
metamorphosis
What is an organ? Give an example of an body system.
An organ is a group of tissues that work together to do a job. Body system examples: digestive system, muscular system, respiratory system
What do you call an animal with a backbone? Give two examples.
A vertebrate
Examples: cat, horse, sheep, human
What is a community?
A community is all the living things in an ecosystem.
Describe how your body responds to inner needs?
Example: Your stomach growls or hurts when you are hungry. Your mouth gets dry when you are thirsty. You yawn or feel tired when you need to sleep.
What are the two types of traits?
Inherited and learned
Identify two body parts that protect and support on the outside. What is a body part that supports from the inside?
Body parts on the outside: skin, scales, shell, fur, feathers, wool. Body parts on the inside: muscles, bones
Give two characteristics of fish.
-lives its whole life in water
-gets oxygen from the water through gills
-cold-blooded
-has fins
-has scales
What is a population? Give an example of a population in the ocean.
A population is all the members of a single type of organism.
Example: sharks, jellyfish, whales
What are the three ways an organism responds to a change in its environment?
migrate, adapt, or die
A learned trait is a trait that you have to learn. Examples: riding a bike, speaking a language, writing
Identify two body parts that help to move.
Examples: arms, legs, wings, fins
What is the difference between an amphibian and a reptile? Give one example of each.
A reptile lives on land. An amphibian lives part of its life on land and part of its life in water.
Examples:
amphibian - salamander, frog
reptile - snake, lizard, crocodile
What is a habitat? Name an animal and what its habitat would be.
A habitat is a living thing's home.
Example: person - house
bird - tree
What is a producer? What is a consumer?
A producer is an organism that makes its own food. A consumer is an organism that can't make its own food.
What is an inherited trait? Give an example.
An inherited trait is a trait you get from your family. Example: hair color, eye color, height
What body parts collect information? What body parts take in materials?
Give two characteristics of birds. Give two characteristics of mammals.
Birds - warm-blooded
- has wings, a beak, and two legs
- has feathers
- lays eggs
Mammals - warm-blooded
- fur or hair
- mother feeds the baby milk
Name an ecosystem and two living and non-living things in that ecosystem.
-forest
living things: tree, squirrel, birds
non-living things: rock, soil