Traits
Producers & Consumers
Food Webs
Life Cycles
Adaptations
100
Characteristics that are passed on from parent to offspring
What are inherited traits?
100
All the producers on Earth are this:
What are PLANTS?
100
What is the main source of energy in any food web?
What is the sun?
100
What do plant roots need in order to survive?
What is water?
100
An adaptation that lets an organism blend into its surroundings to protect against predators is:
What is CAMOUFLAGE?
200
The traits organisms must learn how to do, not inherited.
What is acquired traits?
200
What do we call organisms that make their own food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide? ?
What are producers?
200
A consumer that only eats other consumer is:
What is carnivore?
200
The first stage of a tomato plant is:
What is seed?
200
An adaptation that is a change to an animal's body that helps it survive in an ecosystem is:
What is a PHYSICAL ADAPTATION?
300
All of the following are acquired traits EXCEPT:
Speaking a language
Dimples
Having friends
Math skills
What are dimples?
300
What is an organism that gets energy by eating other organisms because it can't create energy on its own?
What are consumers?
300
A consumer that eats plants and other consumers is:
What is a omnivore?
300
The stage at which a beetle eats most:
What is larva or mealworm?
300
Which characteristic of a Leopard frog are for protection against predators?
A. the large round eyes located on top of their head
B. the color of the skin
C. they hibernate deep in ponds or mud
D. the widely spread fingers and toes
B. the color of the skin
400
Exam the table below. Which characteristic describing a rose plant belongs with the traits that are not inherited?
Sharp thorns
Small buds
Long roots
Holes in leaves
What is holes in leaves?
400
These organisms break down the bodies of dead things.
What are DECOMPOSERS?
400
A consumer without natural predators of its own?
What is Apex Predator?
400
Plants have flowers to reproduce. Therefore, when a plant has flowers, it is at what stage of its life cycle
What is an adult?
400
Which would adaptation would allow for plants to survive extreme weather in their environment?
A. shallow roots
B. long stems
C. deep roots
D. long leaves
C. deep roots
500
Skills and ways of thinking are which type of traits?
What are instincts (inherited traits)?
500
What resources do aquatic plants provide organisms in the bodies of water?
They produce oxygen but also serve as habitats and food sources.
500
Consider the picture? Explain what happens if the dogfish were eliminated from the ecosystem?
Herring and Seal would be directed effected. Herring would increase, Seal would decrease.
500
The beetle goes through four stages and looks very different from offspring to adult. This type of cycle is called:
What is metamorphosis?
500
Why is it essential for organisms to have adaptations?
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