Key Vocabulary
Adaptations
Environmental Changes and Habitats
Technology Skills
Miscellaneous
100
Any piece or marking of an animal that becomes preserved in stone and is at least 10,000 years old.
What is a fossil.
100
When an animal adapts to cold and long winters by appearing to go into a deep sleep. This is considered a _________ adaptation.
What is hibernation and behavioral?
100
Meteors, volcanic activity, erosion, and earthquakes are all examples of this major environmental change.
What is landform change?
100
The two keys you press at the same time on your keyboard in order to copy.
What is CTRL and C.
100
Before you can insert a table, you must do this first with your cursor.
What is place the cursor where you want the table to go.
200
The natural conditions or environment in which an organism lives.
What is habitat?
200
When organisms blend into their surroundings, often to avoid being eaten by predators. This is considered a ________ adaptation.
What is camouflage and physical?
200
Names three resources that could be reduced in an organism's habitat.
What is food, water, shelter, space, sunlight, etc.
200
The two keys you press at the same time on your keyboard in order to paste.
What is CTRL and V.
200
This is how you spell-check your work.
What is click on Tools and then Spelling.
300
No longer in existence.
What is extinct?
300
An adaptation where animals travel from one place to another during the winter season in order to survive. This is considered a _______ adaptation.
What is migration and behavioral?
300
Name the four essential habitat components that all animals need.
What is food, water, shelter, space.
300
The button on the toolbar that you press in order to make your font bold.
What is the B button.
300
True or False: Although many plants and animals die because they can't adapt, some do adapt and survive.
What is True.
400
A physical trait, behavior, or skill that helps an organism survive in its environment.
What is adaptation?
400
When an organism looks just like another plant or animal, imitating it to either hide from or warn predators away. This is considered a ___________ adaptation.
What is mimicry and physical?
400
In the Kapok Tree book, name the change in environment that will affect the animals if the man cuts down the tree. (Landform change, reduction in resources, climate change, disease)
What is reduction in resources - cutting down the kapok tree.
400
The button you press on your toolbar to change the font color of your text.
What is the A button with the black bar underneath it.
400
Think about the comic book "A Journey Into Adaptation" that we read in class. Name one animal and its behavioral adaptation that was mentioned in the book.
Answers vary. Includes a porcupine thrusting out its quills when it feels threatened. A hognose snake playing dead when faced with a predator. Caribou living and moving in large groups to protect them from predators. Mice, squirrels, skunks, and bears hibernating in the winter when food is scarce. Geese flying south to escape the cold of winter (migration). A rabbit freezing in its tracks when it feels threatened so it can blend into its surroundings.
500
When organisms change and develop over time (generations).
What is evolution?
500
This could happen to an organism's species if it can not adapt to its environment.
What is become extinct?
500
When you reduce the essential habitat components, what happens to the animal and plant populations? A. The population increases because the organisms can survive and reproduce more than before. B. The population decreases because there are less organisms to survive and reproduce.
What is B. The population decreases because there are less organisms to survive and reproduce.
500
If you want to copy text, or change its color after you've already typed it, or bold text after you've already typed it, what must you do first?
What is highlight the text.
500
A deer population's habitat/environment has been changed due to a reduction in resources. A stream that it once drank from has dried up and now the only source of water is when it rains. Name one physical adaptation that the deer species needs to develop over time so it can survive in its new environment with limited water.
Answers vary.
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