TERMS
What is an organism?
any living thing
All plants make flowers as part of their life cycle
FALSE: there are non flowering plants
Part of a plant that protects the material that sprouts into a new plant
a seed
What process of the life cycle makes new organisms?
reproduction
what is an offspring?
a young organism produced by parents
What is a life cycle?
set of stages of an organism's life
Living things in an ecosystem interact with nonliving things
TRUE
The process of how plants with flowers reproduce
pollination
The part of the life cycle when a young animal is developing into an adult
Adolescence
What does it mean to inherit a trait ?
to receive a feature from a parent
What is a metamorphosis?
a change of form during the life cycle of some animals
Individuals that come from the same parents are called siblings
TRUE
How nonflowering plants reproduce
spores
Name an animal that goes through metamorphosis
Frogs or butterflies
What is a species?
a group of similar individuals that can reproduce together
What is germination?
When a seed begins to grow
George Mendel was a scientist who produced offspring with dogs and studied their traits
FALSE: he did so with pea plants
What three things does a plant need to germinate?
light, water, and heat
How is chicken egg like a plant seed?
Both eggshell and seed protect the organism while it grows
Why would siblings identical or similar traits?
because they have the same parents
What is a physical trait?
a feature of a living thing's body
Traits are only physical features of an organism
FALSE: they can also be behavioral
What are the stages in the life plant cycle?
germination, growth, reproduction, death.
What are the stages of the animal life cycle?
birth, growth, reproduction, and death
Who was Gregor Mendel
Austrian botanist who discovered how traits are inherited through pea plants