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100
The stage of an insect's life cycle in which the insect hatches.
What is larva?
100
The completion of all the stages in its life.
What is life cycle?
100
The second state in a beetle's life cycle.
What is larva?
100
Compare how the egg stage of a bird is similar to the pupal stage of a butterfly.
What is the baby bird gets everything it needs to survive from the egg. The bird will hatch from its egg. Like the baby bird in the egg, the caterpillar gets everything it needs to change into a butterfly. The butterfly will emerge from its cocoon just like the baby bird hatches from its egg.
100
Explain how the wind and animals help a plant to reproduce.
What is the wind can blow pollen from one flower to another, and animals such as bees can carry pollen from one flower to another?
200
Moving pollen from the male part of a flower to the female part.
What is pollination?
200
Traits that pass from parents to offspring.
What is inherited traits?
200
Examples of this are riding a bicycle and speaking a language.
What is learned traits?
200
Describe an environmental trait.
What is a trait that is affected by the environment, such as a scar?
300
Larva transforms into _________.
What is pupa?
300
Caterpillars go through this to change into butterflies.
What is metamorphosis?
300
Animals such as bees carry pollen from one plat to another in this process.
What is pollination?
300
Name the four stages of the butterfly's life cycle in the correct order.
What is (1) egg, (2) larva, (3) pupa, and (4) adult?
300
Ferns reproduce without making seeds. Explain why they do not need an animal's help to reproduce.
What is ferns make spores instead of seeds and do not need animal pollinators to help them reproduce?
400
A plant embryo grows inside a ___________.
What is seed?
400
The part on a conifer that makes seeds.
What is cone?
400
The name of the larval stage of a butterfly.
What is caterpillar?
400
Name the life cycle of a flower.
What is seed, seedling, young plant, and adult?
400
Name the two parts of a flower that help it make seeds.
What is pollen and eggs?
500
Another name for the passing of traits from parents to their offspring.
What is heredity?
500
The shape of a plant's flowers and leaves are features.
What is trait?
500
Provide an example of an inherited trait.
What is hair color, eye color?
500
A girl named Sue has blonde, straight hair, and brown eyes. Sue has a scar on her left elbow. Sue can play the guitar and ride a bicycle. List Sue's inherited traits, and learned traits.
What is [inherited traits: blonde hair, straight hair, brown eyes]; {learned traits: playing the guitar, riding a bicycle}?
500
To germinate means to _____.
What is to begin to grow?
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