This vocabulary word means "an inherited trait that helps species survive in its environment."
What is adaptation?
100
These are traces of organisms that once lived.
What are fossils?
100
The idea that those organisms best adapted to their environment will be the ones most likely to survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection?
100
A change in the environment of an organism that causes a response.
What is a stimulus?
100
An action that aids in survival.
What is a behavioral adaptation?
200
______________ is the process of getting rid of wastes that are produced during respiration.
What is excretion?
200
These three parts are typically the only parts of an organism to become fossilized.
What are shell, bones or teeth?
200
This process involves breeding only plants or animals that have desired traits.
What is selective breeding?
200
The ability of an organism to respond to a stimulus is a
What is a basic life process?
200
The way in which an organism acts in response to a stimulus is called
What is a behavior?
300
Living organisms use _______________ that is released from food for growth, movement, repair and other body processes.
What is energy?
300
Mutations are _______________ if it improves the chances for survival of the species.
What is helpful?
300
Adaptations that involve body parts or color.
What are structural adaptations?
300
This must happen before an organism can respond to changes in its environment.
What is gather information about those changes?
300
An inherited behavior.
What is an instinct?
400
Name 3 adaptations that aid the beaver in its survival.
What are sharp teeth, large, webbed hind feet, broad, scaly tail, transparent eyelids, long hairs and thick undercoat and flap of skin behind its teeth that allow it to chew under water?
400
This is know as mutations being passed along from generation to generation to improve the species survival.
What is evolution?
400
Groups of organisms of the same species, contain variations in traits that can be passed on to subsequent generations.
What are populations?
400
Name three types of sensory organs that enable animals to gather information about their environment.
What are eyes, noses, ears, tongues, temperature and pain receptors, and sensory hairs.
400
The fact that you blink your eyes when something is coming at your face is an example of
What is a reflex?
500
Name the basic life processes.
What are:
1. Taking in energy
2. Releasing energy in food
3. Using energy for body processes
4. Producing and excreting wastes
5. Responding to the environment
6. Reproducing
500
The study of fossils is important to scientist because _____________
What is because new evidence helps form a more accurate picture of life on Earth long ago?
500
Two reasons that populations can become isolated.
What is because they migrate or a barrier of some sort separates them from the rest of the population?
500
A seal 'shuts off' the blood circulation in the outer layers of its body and limbs when it holds its breath. This is an example of ___________________?
What is a physiological adaptation?
500
Behaviors we are not born with like hunting, an animals ability to obey commands or even a seeing eye dog trained to guide the blind are all examples of