True or false: living things are grouped by their appearance.
What is false?
100
This is the type of plant that can grow very tall because it has tube-like structures that deliver nutrients throughout the plant.
What is a vascular plant?
100
This is the number of groups animals are sorted into.
What is 2?
100
This is a trait or behavior that helps an animal get food, protect itself, move, or reproduce.
What is an adaptation?
200
This is the control center of a cell.
What is the nucleus?
200
This is how many kingdoms of living things there are.
What is 6?
200
This is the type of plant that grows low to the ground and passes water and nutrients from cell to cell.
What is a nonvascular plant?
200
This is the name of animals with backbones.
What are vertebrates?
200
These are behaviors that animals inherit from their parents.
What are instincts?
300
This is the fluid inside of the cell that helps it perform it's tasks.
What is cytoplasm?
300
This is a group of organisms that can produce offspring.
What is a species?
300
These type of plants produce seeds and spread them, causing many of these to grow close together.
What is a flowering plant?
300
This is the name of animals without backbones.
What are invertebrates?
300
These two terms mean to be inactive or asleep during the winter months to conserve energy and to travel to a warmer location for better food/living supplies.
What is hibernation and migration?
400
These two things are the differences between animal cells and plant cells.
What are the cell wall and chloroplasts?
400
This is a group of closely related living things.
What is a genus?
400
These are single cells from ferns and mosses that need a moist, shady place to grow.
What is a spore?
400
These are three out of the five types of vertebrates.
What are fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals?
400
True or false: the animals with the least amount of adaptations have a better chance of surviving and reproducing.
What is false? Animals with the best adaptations are the ones who survive, reproduce, and pass on their adaptations!
500
This is the name of the process in which plants get energy.
What is photosynthesis?
500
These two things are what makeup an organism's scientific name.
What is the genus (first name) and the species (second name)?
500
These are the two ways that plants are classified.
What is how they get nutrients and how they reproduce?
500
These are three types of invertebrates.
What are insects, arthropods, sponges, sea stars, worms, or mollusks?
500
This is the way that animals learn behaviors.
What is trial and error? This means that animals observe other animals, try different behaviors, and continue to use the ones that work best.