Plant Life Cycles
True or False: All plants make flowers as part of their life cycle.
What is false?
What is the series of stages in a organism's life called?
What is a life cycle?
What is the term used to describe a young organism from a parent?
What is offspring?
True or False: The living things in an ecosystem interact with the nonliving things.
What is true?
What term describes something that helps to make an organism better or more likely to succeed?
What is an advantage?
A young plant is protected by a _______ until conditions are right for it to grow.
What is a seed?
What is the name of a series of steps that frogs and butterflies go through to change form?
What is metamorphosis?
What is an example of something a young oak tree inherits from its parent tree?
possible answers: brown bark, roots that grow down, green leaves
What term describes a group of a single type of organism living in the same place at the same time?
What is population?
Are the spines on a cactus in a desert a helpful or harmful trait? Explain.
They are a helpful trait. The spines help protect the cactus from animals seeking water and food.
Describe germination.
When a seed starts to grow.
What stage occurs between between being young and an adult?
What is adolescence?
True or False: traits are only physical features of an organism.
What is false?
How does a cactus survive in a desert with little water?
The cactus stores water inside.
What is the reason organisms have helpful traits?
What is to survive?
What three things does a plant need to germinate?
What is light, water, and heat?
How is a chicken egg like a plant seed?
Both the eggshell and seed protect the young organism until it is ready to grow.
What did Gregor Mendel notice when he studied a lot of pea plants?
Possible answers: plants have different traits, some flowers were white while others were purple, etc.
What is the difference between an ecosystem and a environment?
An ecosystem is all the living things in the same place. An environment is only the are where something lives.
What term describes a color or pattern that helps an organism survive in its environment?
What is to camouflage?
What are the stages in a plant life cycle?
What are germination, growth, reproduction, and death?
How does the life cycle of a frog differ from the life cycle of a chicken or mouse?
A young frog develops legs after it is born and loses its tail. The other two animals have all their body parts when they are born.
How would you describe how two sibling ducks could have two differnt patterns of feather color?
Each sibling inherits some different traits from its parents.
How is it an advantage for the fur on some foxes to change to white when winter comes?
What is because with white fur they can blend in with the snow to hunt for food and to hide from animals that would eat them?
What might happen to an organism if its environment changes?
The animal could become extinct if it cannot respond quickly enough to the changes in the environment. The animal could change enough to survive, and over generations it could become fit to live in the new habitat.