Inherited/Learned Traits
A characteristic that a living thing gets during its lifetime.
What is an acquired trait?
A vertebrate that lives part of its life in water and part on land.
What is an amphibian?
A medicine that cures diseases by killing the bacteria that cause them.
What is an antibiotic?
A complete path for the flow of electric current.
What is a closed circuit?
The process of adding sand to an eroded beach to rebuild it.
What is beach nourishment?
A way in which a living thing acts or responds to its surroundings.
What is behavior?
What is a backbone?
A tool that makes tiny objects appear much larger.
What is a microscope?
A flow of electrons through a wire.
What is electric current?
A structure built across a river to control its flow.
What is a dam?
A characteristic that a living thing gets from its parents.
What is an inherited trait?
A vertebrate that breathes with lungs, has wings and feathers, and lays eggs.
What is a bird?
A living thing that breaks down the remains of dead organisms to feed on them.
What is a decomposer?
The quick movement of electrons from one object to another.
What is electric discharge?
The dropping of rock material by water, wind, or glaciers.
What is deposition?
A behavior that an animal inherits from its parents.
What is an instinct?
Having cones in which seeds form.
What is coniferous?
Single-celled organisms that do not have a nucleus.
What is bacteria?
To push away.
What is repel?
A hill of sand deposited by wind.
What is a dune?
A way of acting or skill that an animal develops during its lifetime.
What is a learned behavior?
Having leaves that fall off each year.
What is deciduous?
Pieces of information gathered during an investigation.
What is data?
An incomplete path for the flow of electric current.
What is an open circuit?
A wave of energy that travels through Earth's crust.
What is a seismic wave?
A characteristic of a living thing.
What is a trait?
A vertebrate that lives in water and breathes with gills throughout its life.
What is a fish?
An organism that is too small to be seen without a microscope.
What is a microorganism?
Any device that uses electric current.
What is a load?
A record of seismic waves made by a seismograph.
What is a seismogram?
What is evidence?
A vertebrate that breathes with lungs and has scales or plates on its skin.
What is a reptile?
Information gathered with the senses.
What is an observation?
A magnet made by using an electric current.
What is an electromagnet?
The breaking down of rock at or near Earth's surface.
What is weathering?