Vocabulary
Adaptation
Fossils
Traits
Miscellaneous
100
The physical and behavioral characteristics we get from our parents.
What is Heredity
100
The coat of a horse in the summer is relatively smooth with short hairs. The coat of a horse in the winter is coarse with long hairs.
What is Seasonal Change
100
A hiker has found seashells in some of the rocks up a mountain.
What is the rocks were formed in an ocean and later uplifted when the mountain was formed.
100
An animal that returns to the same place for food in order for it to survive.
What is a Learned Behavior
100
What is a naturally occurring pollutant?
What is Volcanic Ash
200
Traits or features that you can see.
What is Physical Characteristics
200
Why do Polar Bears and Arctic Foxes have white fur.
What is Hunting Seals
200
How does Earths fossils record shows evidence
What is more complex life forms probably have evolved from less complex life forms.
200
One factor that causes a flamingo to turn pink when eating shrimp.
What is Heredity
200
What type of bird preys on other birds?
What is Sharp-Shinned Hawk
300
Behaviors or body parts that are especially designed to help animals survive in an ecosystem.
What is Adaptation
300
What helps a rabbit survive being chased by a predator.
What is Powerful Legs
300
What is the main cause of a larger number of species becoming extinct.
What is Habitat Destruction.
300
Give an example of an inherited trait.
What is Blue Eyes
300
Give three examples that could be inherited rather than learned.
What is eye color, hair color, any facial features.
400
This traits can not be passed on genetically.
What is Acquired Traits
400
Give one explanation as to why the color of the fur of rabbits living in the wild changes from brown to white in the winter months.
What is White rabbits are more difficult for predators to find in the winter.
400
What is evidence that show something once existed on earth.
What is Fossils.
400
Give an example of an acquired trait.
What is appetite.
400
Give three examples of an acquired trait.
What is Broken Arm, Playing a Sport, Different Language
500
A living thing (plant and animals)
What is Organism
500
Why do Tigers have stripes?
What is to help them to hide in the tall grass.
500
What do scientists believe caused dinosaurs to disappear from Earth.
What is an Asteroid.
500
What is an example of a salmon returning to their birthplace to lay their eggs.
What is Instinct
500
Name one organism that does not adapt in the cold winter months.
What is Chameleon.
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