Habitats
A habitat is...
The place where an animal lives.
What is a fossil?
The remains of an animal that lived a long time ago.
What is selection?
Breeding animals based on certain traits.
What is social behavior?
When animals live together and have their own roles to help each other survive.
What are Physical traits?
Things that you can see with your eyes and use to describe someone or something.
Example: Tall, sharp, furry, scaly
True.
How can you tell if a fossil is a mammal or a reptile?
Why are there so many different types of dogs?
People used selection to breed dogs based on the traits they wanted.
Name 2 animals that live in groups
wolves, penguins, meerkats, buffalos, monkeys, lions, ants, bees, etc...
Would your traits change if you lived in space? Why?
Yes. Our environment can affect our traits.
How can you tell what a habitat used to look like?
By looking at the fossils from that habitat.
What are 2 things you can learn from looking at fossil footprints?
Why are the green anoles good climber?
The brown anoles ate all the green anoles that weren't good climbers.
Do animals live in groups for fun or to survive?
To survive.
What is a carnivore? What does its teeth look like?
An animal that eats meats. It has sharp teeth.
How did scientist find a whale in the desert?
The desert used to be an ocean habitat.
How can you tell what an animal eats?
If they have sharp teeth they eat meat, and if they have flat teeth, they eat plants.
What is the difference between Selection and Natural Selection?
Selection is done by people when they choose animals based on certain traits to breed. Like small dogs, or tame foxes.
Natural Selection happens in nature by animals. Animals who are better able to survive their environment live on to pass on their traits.
How do animals living in groups help each other? (hint: 3 things)
1) Food
2) Protection
3) Environment
What is a herbivore? What does its teeth look like?
True or False: The polar habitat today always used to be a polar habitat.
False.
How do scientists know that dinosaurs looked like big lizards? (hint: 3 things in common)
They looked at dinosaur fossils and saw that dinosaur skulls, eggs, and skin look similar to reptiles.
Why would a dog have curly hair like his mom?
We inherit traits from our parents.
What's an example of animals following social behavior?
Meerkats warning each other of danger, buffalo huddling together to scare predators, Ravens stealing an Eagle's food, Snow monkeys huddling in the cold, etc..
What is an omnivore? What does its teeth look like?
An animal that eats both plants and meat. It has sharp and flat teeth.