Classifying Plants and Animals
Plants
Animals
Plant and Animal Adaptations
Animal Systems
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What is an organism?
A living thing.
100
What is the purpose of a stem?
To hold up the plant and its leaves.
100
What is a vertebrate?
An animal with a segmented backbone.
100
What is a tropism?
An organisms response toward or away from a stimulus.
100
Organisms obtain use food to obtain...
Energy
200
What is the difference between vascular and nonvascular?
Vascular has veins, nonvascular does not.
200
What are the two different types of stems?
Hard and soft.
200
What is an invertebrate?
An animal without a segmented backbone.
200
Name one way that an animal could adapt to cold whether and one way an animal could adapt to warm whether.
Cold whether--> think layer of blubber or fur Warm whether--> shedding hair or living in a shaded area or underground where it is cooler
200
What is digestion and what is excretion?
Digestion--> the process of ingesting and breaking down food to use as energy Excretion--> the process of eliminating waste from the body
300
What are the groups used to classify animals?
1) Kingdom 2) Phylum 3) Class 4) Order 5) Family 6) Genus 7) Species
300
Plants using sunlight to make their own food is called...
Photosynthesis.
300
What are the 5 classes of vertebrate?
Mammals Fish Reptiles Amphibians Birds
300
What is the difference between camouflage and mimicry?
Camouflage is blending in with the environment and mimicry is looking like another animal.
300
What is respiration?
Breathing
400
Who created the classification system that we use today?
Corolus Linnaeus
400
Name three functions of roots.
Hold the plant in place To store food for the plant To absorb water from the ground
400
What are the three kinds of arthropods?
Insects Arachnids Crustaceans
400
What is the chemical that causes tropisms?
Auxins
400
Name the five major organs involved in digestion in the order that the food moves through them.
Mouth Esophagus Stomach Small Intestine Large Intestine
500
Name the five life functions that all living things must have.
1) Made of cells 2) Grow and Develop 3) Reproduce 4) Respond to the environment 5) Have a way to obtain energy
500
What are the three things that enter a plant during photosynthesis?
Water Sunlight Carbon Dioxide
500
What is a biped and a tetrapod? Give one example of each.
Biped is an animal with two feet--> bird Tetrapod is an animal with four feet--> Elephant
500
Name the three main types of tropisms and tell weather they are positive or negative.
Hydrotropism--> positive Phototropism--> positive Gravitropism--> positive and negative
500
What is an open and closed circulatory system?
Open--> Blood is released directly from the heart into the body tissue Closed--> Contains blood within the blood vessels
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