Traits & Inheritance
a part of a plant that is usually brightly colored
What is a flower?
babies
What is offspring?
to stay alive
What is survive?
an animal that hunts and eats other animals
What is predator?
a push or a pull
What is force?
the part of a plant that contains seeds inside a covering, like an apple
What is a fruit?
offspring that have the same parents
What is siblings?
a physical trait or behavior that helps a living thing survive in its environment
What is adaptation?
to exchange information
What is to communicate?
an invisible force that pulls any object down, toward the Earth
What is gravity?
a part of a plant that is often flat and green
What is a leaf?
a group of living things with specific traits that have been selected by people over time; for example, pugs are a breed of dog
What is breed?
one specific kind of living thing that has similar traits and can produce offspring with one another
What is species?
the actions and reactions of living things
What is behavior?
to guess what will happen based on things you know
What is predict?
something you can observe about a living thing, such as the number of petals on a flower
What is a trait?
differences in a trait between living things of the same kind, such as different feather colors of pigeons
What is variation?
all the living things born and living at around the same time
What is generation?
the act of keeping something or someone safe
What is protection?
a living thing's surroundings, including other living things and non-living parts like soil, water, and air
What is environment?
to get a trait from parents
What is inherit?
the process of humans choosing certain traits of living things so that they are passed to the offspring
What is artificial selection?
the process where traits that help a living thing survive are then more likely to be passed to their offspring
What is natural selection?
behaviors of living things that live in groups
What is social behaviors?
a trait that can change based on the environment
What is acquired trait?