Adaptations
Neighborhood dogs have developed the ____ of knocking over my garbage cans looking for food.
What is HABIT
Praying mantis have an ___ for hunting other insects.
What is INSTINCT.
What are rodents? Give 2-3 examples for credit.
What is FURRY MAMMALS WITH CONTIOUSLY GROWING FRONT TEETH.
What does it mean if an animal is a vertebrate?
What is IT HAS A SPINE OR BACKBONE.
Birds with brown feathers are adapted for _________.
What is FORESTS.
The teacher may accept other acceptable answers.
Birds with white feathers are adapted for ______.
What is OPEN AREAS LIKE OVER WATER.
They blend in with clouds.
Would a fast fish or slow fish survive a predator better? Explain.
What is a fast fish. They could escape the predator by swimming away quickly. While the other slow fish would be eaten.
How many stages are in an incomplete metamorphosis?
What is 3 EGG - NYMPH - ADULT. There are no larval or pupa stages.
What is an invertebrate?
What is AN ANIMAL WITHOUT A BACKBONE OR SPIN.
What would happen to plants and animal in an area of forest that suddenly became flooded or had a wildfire?
What is most plants and some animals may die and other animals would have to migrate to find new home and or food.
Mr. Wallace wanted to find out which birds liked bird seeds the most. He put out some seed and recorded data as birds came to feed. 4 different birds came to feed the same amount of times. The results were inconclusive. What should Mr. Wallace do now?
What is REPEAT HIS TRIALS SEVERAL TIMES.
Charley was eating grapes one Sunday afternoon. What is one observation he could make about the grapes.
What is THEY ARE GREEN. Other acceptable answers include any observation that is a fact about grapes.
What do animals do to survive a COLD winter? There are 3 right answers. Must answer 2 out of the 3 for full credit.
What is MIGRATE: go somewhere that is warm, HIBERNATE: Sleep through the winter, or STORE/GATHER FOOD: ground animals that stay in their homes for the winter will store enough food to survive.
Which one does not belong in the vertebrate family? Snake - Lobster - Turtle - Human
What is LOBSTER. Shellfish have exoskeletons and no bones whatsoever :)
In order for scientists to accept your findings they must...
What is BE ABLE TO CONDUCT THE SAME EXPERIMENT AND GET THE SAME RESULTS.
Mr. Wallace is studying the behavior of animals in a pet store. What would be a good control group for his experiment?
What is ANIMALS IN THE WILD.
If you were trying to find out how many kids were born in Florida in 2015 would you check government records or count them on your own? EXPLAIN.
What is CHECK GOVERNMENT RECORDS. Doing it any other way would take too long. There are hundreds of thousands of babies born in Florida every year. (on average there are 214,000 babies born in Florida every year)
What would be a inherited trait that a baby flower gets from a parent flower?
What is PETAL SHAPE, SIZE, AND/OR COLOR.
Which one does not belong in the invertebrate family? Shrimp - Octopus - Alligator - Crab
What is ALLIGATOR.
Mr. Wallace thinks that birds only eat worms. He kept track of a group of birds for 30 days and recorded when they would eat worms. How is his investigation different than an experiment?
What is IT HAD NO CONTROL GROUP.
Is the life cycle of a mosquito complete or incomplete?
What is COMPLETE, IT HAS 4 STAGES, EGG - LARVA -PUPA- ADULT. The presence of the larval and pupa stages make it complete.
Why do animals migrate. List 3.
What is FOOD, SHELTER, MATING, WARMTH
There are white and black snails living along an ocean shore on rocks. What would happen to a population of white snails if all of the rocks in a areas suddenly turned black?
What is, THEY WOULD START GETTING EATEN BY PREDATORS MORE THAN THE BLACK SNAILS BECAUSE THEY WOULD STAND OUT MORE.
Place the following animals in the correct animal classes. Fish - Bird - Mammal - Reptile - Amphibian Animals: Human, Shark, Whale, Hawk, Chameleon, Frog, Turtle, Newt,
What is: Human and Whale = mammal, Shark = fish, Hawk = bird, Chameleon = reptile, Frog and Newt = amphibian