Growing toward the sunlight is a ____________ of plants.
What is a behavior?
100
This is a plant that catches and "eats" insects to help it get the nutrients it lacks from the soil.
What is a Venus flytrap or a pitcher plant?
100
This is the coloring and markings of an animal that help it blend in with its surrounds.
What is camouflage?
100
This large aquatic animal has sharp teeth, strong jaws, a powerful body, and webbed feet.
What is an alligator?
100
This beautiful insect migrates to warmer climates during the winter.
What is a butterfly?
200
This is a plant that gets some of its nutrients by trapping and digesting insects and other small animals.
What is a carnivorous plant?
200
A plant with thick, waxy stems is most likely to live in this habitat.
What is a desert?
200
This animal's foot helps it to attach to underwater rocks.
What is a mussel?
200
This flying mammal hibernates in the winter.
What is a bat?
200
This insect can turn its head all the way around. This adaptation makes it easy for this insect to see all of its surroundings. This insect looks like it prays for prey.
What is a praying mantis?
300
These help a cactus reduce water loss in a dry habitat.
What are spines?
300
Plants growing on the forest floor often have this adaptation.
What is wide leaves?
300
This adaptation allows an animal to protect itself by looking like another kind of living thing that is harmful.
What is mimicry?
300
This noctural animal uses its sharp claws to dig for insects and its long sticky tongue to catch them. It has a hard outer covering for protection.
What is an armadillo?
300
This insect uses camouflage to blend in on the twigs of a tree.
What is a stick bug?
400
This plant has "knees" that help it stand in wet environments.
What is a bald cypress?
400
The longleaf pine tree depends on this to provide bare soil for its seeds to grow.
What is fire?
400
Biologists use this devise to track the movement of aquatic animals such as the dolphin.
What is a computer?
400
Humans are the prey of this pesty insect.
What is a mosquito?
400
This small insect can eat up to 5,000 aphids in its lifetime. (Aphids are tiny insects that kill plants.)
What is a ladybug?
500
This plant is found in the saltwater marsh, and has parts that filter salt out of the plant.
What is cordgrass?
500
These are two plants that have substances that protect them from being eaten by animals.
What are jack-in-the-pulpit, poison ivy, stinging nettles, and/or water hemlock.
500
These are three adaptations that an owl has to help it catch its prey.
What are feathers, talons, eyesight, and/or hearing.
500
This non-venomous snake looks very much like a coral snake.
What is a king snake?
500
This 6-3-2 trick helps you identify an arthopod as an insect. 6-3-2 means ______.