How Do Plants Grow & Reproduce?
How Do Animals Grow & Change?
How Do Living Things Depend on their Environment?
How Do Adaptations Help Living Things Survive?
How Do Living Things Interact With Their Environment?
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What do all plants need in order to survive?
Air, water, sunlight and soil
100
What do all animals need in order to survive?
water, nutrients and air
100
What do all living things need from their environment?
Air, water, energy and space
100
What adaptations to a sea turtle have to help it survive? What adaptations do a tortoise have to help it survive?
A sea turtle has flippers and a tortoise has legs.
100
How does a plant adapt to seasonal changes in the northern United States?
Their leaves change color in the fall, and the leaves begin to fall to the ground. The trees remain bare during the winter.
200
Why are honeybees important to flowering plants?
They help with pollination.
200
What are the 4 stages of a complete metamorphosis?
egg, larva, pupa, adult
200
Which of these makes food out of sunlight, water and air? *predators *producers *consumers *decomposers
producers
200
What are 3 adaptations an animal has for getting food?
beak, claws, camouflage, mouths, teeth,
200
Give an example of how an animal might adapt to the coming winter.
migration, hibernation, rabbit's fur changing to white, deer fur growing thick.
300
The life cycles of conifers and flowering plants both include seeds that...
Germinate and grow into adult plants.
300
When a cricket hatches out of its egg, it looks like a tiny version of an adult cricket. Then it grows and eventually becomes adult sized. What stage is the cricket in just after it hatches?
nymph
300
Which of these shows how energy passes from one living thing to another? a.) herbivore eats a carnivore b.) producer eats a herbivore c.) carnivore eats an omnivore d.) producer eats an omnivore
C.) Carnivore eating an omnivore
300
Give an example of how animals communicate and what they may be communicating.
birds "singing" warning of danger, protecting, mating skunk spray: stay away dog barking: danger
300
What is one positive way and one negative way that a plant changes the environment?
Positive: grasses and plants give off oxygen that we breathe, grass roots hold the soil in place, help build up soil Negative: invasive plant
400
Give at least 3 examples of seed dispersal.
Animals (by eating berries and seeds, or the hooks of seeds sticking to an animal's fur) Wind (seeds have tiny wings that blow in the wind) Water (coconuts float and are carried away in water)
400
Which of these is an example of an acquired trait? * a scar on a goat's face * the size of an alligator's head * a curve in an elephant's tusks * the way a spider weaves its web
a scar on a goat's face
400
Lions are zebra's predator. What will happen to zebras if the population of lion's decreases?
The zebras will increase in number
400
What adaptations do plants have to survive?
needles, thorns, leaves, stems
400
How do animals both positively and negatively change the environment?
home building: beavers build a dam, causing flooding change the soil, eat the plants, killing them create water holes invasive animals
500
What is the purpose of flowers on a tree?
The flowers contain seeds that allow the plant to germinate and grow into new plants.
500
A cat's fur color is a result of heredity. A cat has kittens with black fur. How did the kittens most likely get this fur color?
The black fur was passed on to the kitten from the kittens' parents.
500
How are producers and consumers different?
Consumers need to find their food Producers make their own food
500
How do fossils help us tell Earth's history?
Fossils show the kinds of living things that have been on Earth, and they also show what the environment was like at different times.
500
How do people change the environment? Give an example how they help the environment. Give an example of how they hurt the environment.
Help: recycling, conserving energy or natural resources. Hurt: pollution, farming
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