🐾 Behavioral Traits
This type of behavior is something animals are born knowing how to do, like turtles heading to the ocean.
An instinct
These are the living parts of an ecosystem, like plants and animals.
Biotic factors
These are the three basic forms matter can take.
Solid, liquid, and gas
This happens when light bounces off a mirror.
Reflection
This process breaks down rocks into smaller pieces.
Weathering
This is a behavior that animals learn over time, like orcas hunting together in packs.
A learned behavior
These are the nonliving parts of an ecosystem, like sunlight, water, and rocks.
Abiotic factors
If an object does this in water, it is less dense than water.
It floats.
This is the path that light travels in.
A straight line
This force carves canyons by moving over rock for a long time.
Water
This instinct helps turtle hatchlings avoid predators and get to their ocean home.
Returning quickly to the sea
This cycle shows how animals eat plants or other animals to survive.
A food web
A metal spoon can do this with heat, so it gets hot quickly.
Conduct thermal energy
A black shirt does this with most of the light that hits it.
Absorbs it
These types of rocks form when layers of sediment are pressed together.
Sedimentary Rocks
This group hunting method helps orcas catch more food and protect one another.
Hunting in packs
If this abiotic factor is polluted, fish may not survive.
Water
When sugar does this in water, it becomes a solution.
Dissolves
This is what happens when light bounces off of a curved mirror.
It's reflected.
These energy sources are formed from ancient plants and animals.
Fossil Fuels
A baby kangaroo climbs into its mother’s pouch just after birth. Later, it learns how to find food by watching its mom. Which behavior is an instinct?
A frog hides under a log to stay cool and eats insects that come near. Is the frog interacting with a biotic factor, an abiotic factor, or both? Explain.
Both
You drop a metal paperclip and a wooden stick into a cup of water. The paperclip sinks, but the stick floats. What property are you testing?
Density
You shine a flashlight on a mirror, and the light bounces off. Then, you shine it through a glass of water, and the light bends. Finally, you point it at a black sweater, and the light disappears.
Which action demonstrates refraction?
Shining the light through the water
After many years, a river moves sand and mud downstream and drops it off where the river meets the ocean, creating new land. What kind of landform is being created?
A Delta