Food Chains
Who Creates nutrients for animals?
a consumer, a producer or a decomposer
What is a producer?
What stage is part of incomplete metamorphosis, but NOT complete metamorphosis?
Complete Metamorphosis: egg, larva, pupa, adult
Incomplete Metamorphosis: egg, nymph, adult
What is a nymph?
Does Canada or Mexico have a longer growing season and why?
What is Mexico because the climate is warmer?
Traits that are passed down from parents to offspring
What are inherited traits?
a logical conclusion based on an observation
What is an inference?
What is the major source of energy in a food chain
The sun
An arctic fox is brown in the summer and white in the winter. What is the MOST likely cause of this change?
instinctive behavior or learned behavior
What is intinctive behavior?
What process could not occur if the ovary was missing in a flower?
germination, fertilization, seed dispersal, or pollination
What is fertilization?
The ability for a human to ride a bike
What is a learned behavior?
These type of objects usually sink in a sink or float experiment?
What is heavier?
Who recycles nutrients in the food chain?
a consumer, a producer, or a decomposer
What is a decomposer?
During the winter the Starling gets white spots to blend in with the snow. What is this called?
What is camouflage?
This part of the plant helps the plant reproduce and make seeds.
root, stem, leaves, or flower
What is the flower?
A male puppy inherits traits from
both parents
A 3D sculpture, a drawing, and a computer simulation are all examples of this.
What is a model?
What takes energy from the sun and converts it to food for animals?
a consumer, a producer, or a decomposer
What is a producer?
What is it called when moss attaches its roots to a tree branch so that it can get more sunlight?
a physical adaptation or a behavioral adaptation
What is a behavioral adaptation?
Put the events in order of the life cycle of plants:
seed, pollination, seed dispersal, fertilization
What is pollination, fertilization, seed, and seed dispersal ?
A boy and his sister both play piano. Playing piano is an example of
a learned behavior
The variable that is changed or controlled in a scientific experiment.
Is it an independent variable, dependent variable, or constant variable?
What is an independent variable?
Which of these animals in this food chain is Both prey and predator?
sun, plant, mouse, snake, owl
What is a mouse?
What are the 3 forms of adaptations
Think or physical adaptations and behavioral adaptations.
camouflage, migration and hibernation
What would have to increase for there to be more flowering plants growing in a certain area?
What is the number of pollinators?
Tigers that are raised by mothers tend to be better hunters than those that are not. Why?
Is it a learned behavior, inherited behavior or both?
Both. Hunting is an inherited behavior but hunting skills are learned.
The variable being measured.
Is it an independent variable, dependent variable, or constant variable?
What is the dependent variable?