What is every part of an organism combined together.
100
What is a characteristic?
What is a feature that describes a thing or object.
100
What is a habitat?
What is a place where animals live that have the resources (food and water) and the weather that allow them to survive.
100
What is a fossil?
What is preserved remains or traces of living things.
200
How long have humans been on Earth?
What is 100,000 years.
200
What is function?
What is the purpose of the structure.
200
What are three characteristics that a lion has?
What is fur, claws, and sharp teeth.
200
What is an adaptation?
What is the ability for an animals characteristics to change as their environment changes.
200
What type of rock is needed to make a fossil?
Sedimentary Rock
300
What is an organism?
What is any living things such as a plant, animal, or bacteria.
300
What is a dichotomous key?
What is a chart that helps a person identify an organism based on its characteristics.
300
Name three different types of habitats.
What is ocean, grassland, desert, forest, wetlands, or arctic tundra.
300
What are three characteristics that can change about a human?
What is size of skull, walking on two legs, and less hair because of clothes.
300
How do you make a fossil?
What is a fossil is made by an organism dying and decomposing, sedimentary rock covering the dead organism and hardening, and it leaves a mark or trace of what the organism looked like.
400
What existed on earth first: plants or dinosaurs?
Plants
400
What is the relationship between structure and function?
What is that each structure of an organism (ears, nose, mouth) performs a specific function, which allows the organism to survive
400
What is camouflage and what is one animal that has it?
What is an adaptation for protection by being able to blend into the environment/chameleon.
400
Describe how the environment has changed for humans in three different ways.
What is the invention of computers and technology, buildings like homes and places to work, and grocery stores that have the food we need to eat.
400
What are three different types of fossils?
What is petrified fossil, trace fossil, other fossil, mold, cast, and carbon film.
500
What is uniformatarianism?
What is we can look at what is happening now on our Earth to explain past events that happened on Earth.
500
Name three different structures and their functions.
What is ears for hearing, mouth for eating, and thumbs for holding on to things.
500
What is the habitat of a polar bear, three characteristics it has and why they are important for survival?
What is the arctic tundra. Three characteristics are fur for keeping warm, teeth for eating their prey, and claws for catching their prey.
500
Explain what characteristics of the polar bear would have to change if their environment got warmer.
What is they would need less fur because they don't need to stay cold, they would be smaller or less fat because they don't need the fat to stay warm anymore, and they would have different prey so their claws/teeth could change.
500
How have human fossils changed over time? (3 ways)
What is skulls got bigger to fit their brains, standing upright taller because they walk on two legs, and their hands/feet got smaller because they don't need to catch their prey.