Classifying
What does it mean if an animal is a vertebrate?
What has a backbone.
What is the main organ of the nervous system is the?
What is the Brain
What part of the plant takes in water from the soil?
What is Roots?
An organism that makes its own food is called what?
Producer
Give one example of a natural change to an ecosystem
Wildfire, flood, drought, volcano, ect
Which kingdom do mushrooms belong to?
Which part of the cell is found only in plants and not animals?
What is cell wall or chloroplasts
Plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make what?
What is food (glucose or sugar)
What is the difference between a consumer and decomposer?
Consumer eats other living things; decomposer breaks down dead material.
Give one example of a human-change to an ecosystem
Pollution, deforestation, building cities, ect
Name two differences between mammals and reptiles.
What is Mammals have fur/hair, are warm-blooded, and feed milk. Reptiles have scales, are cold blooded, and lay eggs.
Put these in order:
-Cell -Organs
- Organ System -Tissue
-Organism
1. Cell 2.Tissue 3.Organs
4. Organ System 5. Organism
What are two ways plants can reproduce?
Seeds or Pollination
What happens to the insect population if frogs decreased?
Insects increase (because few predators eat them)
What is the difference between hibernation and migration?
Hibernation- deep sleep during cold
Migration- Moving to warmer places
Which group of animals lays eggs in water and breathes through gills when young?
Which two systems work together to carry oxygen through your body?
What is Circulatory and Respiratory Systems
How does a cactus's thick stem help it survive in the desert
Stores water inside to survive long without rain
Give an example of mutualism
Birds eating insects off zebras. (answers may vary)
How can Pollution harm biodiversity?
It can kill species, reduce food chains, or cause extinction.
Why do Scientists classify living things into groups?
What is to organize living things and show how they are related.
When you are running, what happens to your circulatory and respiratory systems, and how do their main organs respond?
Heart beats faster to pump blood: lungs work harder to bring in oxygen and remove carbon dioxide
If pollinators like bees disappeared, what would happen to seed production in many plants?
Why are there fewer animals at the top of an ENERGY pyramid?
Less energy is available at higher levels of the food chain.
A forest fire burns down many trees. How will this affect producers, herbivores, and carnivores?
Producers (Trees/Plant) Decrease, Herbivores decrease (Less Food), Carnivores decrease (Less Prey)