Physical Structures
What do some trees and snakes have in common?
What is they shed their skins?
A change that allows an organism to survive better in its environment.
What is Adaptation?
What does fur do for animals?
It protects the animal from cold.
The process of an animal changing form during its life cycle.
What is metamorphosis?
This is a tool used to identify an unknown organism?
What is dichotomous key?
Seeds that can spread over a wide area have _________ competition for resources.
What is Less?
__________ is a random change in a gene.
What is a Mutation?
What is the purpose of a giraffe having a long neck?
To reach the leaves up high in trees.
What are the 5 stages of a frog's life?
What egg, tadpole, grows a tail, develop gills, and Frog?
An _____________ is an animal without a backbone.
What is an invertbrate?
Insects use ___________ to get oxygen.
What is Spiracles?
What is so they can float in water and travel?
This is when a species has no members left that are alive.
What is Extinct Species?
Give an example of a larva.
What is a catepillar?
A _______ plant has special tubes for carrying food and water to all its parts.
What is a vascular plant?
These are hard skeletons on the outside of the bodies.
_____________ a change that allows an organism to survive better in its environment.
What is succession?
What is inherited behaviors that help animals survive?
What is behavioral adaptions?
This is when insects go through only 3 stages of metamorphosis.
What is Incomplete metamorphosis?
An animal that has a backbone is called a __________.
What is a vertebrate?
_______, _________, and __________ are three ways animals can get oxygen
What is Lungs, spiracles, and gills?
Why would a plant only produce flowers and seeds in spring?
Because the plant is not adapted to live during winter.
What does a snowshoe hare do in order to survive during winter?
What is they turn white?
What is a pattern of birth, growth, and death that all animals share?
What is a Life Cycle?
A _______ plant that does not have tubes to get water to the rest of the plant, and does not support the plant.
What is nonvascular?