Plant Life Cycles
True or False: All plants make flowers as part of their life cycle
False
What are the stages in an organism's life called?
What is the word used to describe a young organism from a parent?
Offspring
True or False: Living things in an ecosystem can interact with non-living things.
Trye
What term describes something that helps to make an organism better or more likely to suceed?
Advantage
A young plant is protected by a ________ until conditions are right for it to grow.
What is the name of a series of steps that frogs and butterflies go through to change form?
Metamorphosis
What is an example of something a young oak tree inherits from its parent tree?
Brown bark, roots that grow down, green leaves, etc.
What terms describes a group of a single type of organism living in the same place at the same time?
Population
Are the spines/spikes on a cactus in a desert a helpful or harmful trait? Explain.
They are helpful because they protect the cactus from being eaten by animals looking for water and food.
What is germination?
When a seed starts to grow
What stage happens between being young and being an adult?
Adolescence
True or False: Traits can only be the physical features of an organism.
How does a cactus survive in a desert with very little water?
The cactus stores water inside it for when there is little water in the desert.
What is the ultimate reason organisms have helpful traits?
To survive!
What 3 things does a plant need to germinate?
Light, water, and heat
How is a chicken egg like a plant seed?
What did Gregor Mendel notice when he studied alot of pea plants and their flowers?
The plants had different traits and patterns of inheritance that they gave to their offspring.
What is the difference between an ecosystem and an environment?
An ecosystem is all the living AND non-living things in the same place. An environment is ONLY the area where something lives.
What term describes a color or pattern that helps an organism blend in with its environment?
Camouflage
What are the stages in a plant life cycle? (There are 4 steps)
1. Germination
2. Growth
3. Reproduction
4. Death
How is the life cycle of a frog different from the life of a chicken or mouse?
A young frog develops legs after it is born and loses a tail. But a chicken and mouse have all their body parts when they are born.
How can 2 sibling ducks have 2 different patterns of color feathers?
Each sibling inherits different traits from its parents
How is it an advantage for the fur on some foxes to change to white when winter comes?
Because with white fur, they can blend in with the snow to hunt for food and hide from predators.
What might happen to an organism if its environment changes?
The animal could become extinct if it can not quickly change to survive in the environment. If the animal can change enough to survive, over generations it can become fit to live in the new habitat.