Lots of Living Things
Growing, and Changing, and Multiplying, oh my!
Life Cycles
Earthly Ecosystems
Marvelous Miscellaneous
100
The main difference between vertebrates and invertebrates
What is a backbone and no backbone?
100
A behavior that an animal is born able to do.
What is an instinct ?
100
The four common factors in the life cycles of all living things.
What is they are born, they grow, reproduce, and die?
100
A place where a living thing makes its home is called this.
What is a habitat ?
100
The names for the following: living things that make their own food, living things that eat other organisms, and living things that break down waste and dead plant and animal matter.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers ?
200
The scars on this elephant seal are an example of the characteristics that living things may get during their lifetime.
What is an acquired characteristic?
200
Name two examples of learned behaviors in humans.
What are [e.g. learning how to read, solving math problems, tying your shoelaces, eating with a fork, etc.] ?
200
The four stages in the life cycle of a butterfly (in order).
What are egg, larva, pupa, adult ?
200
All of the populations that live in the same place form this.
What is a community?
200
The oldest known fossils.
What are bacteria ?
300
Foxes can best be described as _____________ because they eat both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore ?
300
Some trees shed their leaves before winter - This is an example of a(n) __________.
What is an adaptation ?
300
The process of the change in form during an animal's life cycle is called this.
What is metamorphosis ?
300
The definition of an ecosystem.
What is a community where living and non-living parts interact ?
300
Name two things we can learn about the past from studying fossil records.
What is extinct plants and animals and how the Earth has changed ?
400
What are two ways in which living things can be classified?
What is how they look, how they act, where they live, what they eat, how they give birth, etc. ?
400
The two main ways that animals can be born.
What are hatching from eggs and live births ?
400
The name of the animal group that has mostly live births.
What are mammals ?
400
The correct order of the flow of energy in a food chain that consists of a tomato plant, a student, and the sun.
What is 1)sun, 2)tomato plant, 3)student ?
400
Three examples of fossils.
What are fossilized bones, molds of plants/animals, preserved insects in tree sap (amber), preserved footprints, etc. ?
500
Name two of the main groups of vertebrates.
What are fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals ?
500
Name two traits that plants inherit from their parents.
What are leaf shape and flower color ?
500
The way that a frog's body must change during the tadpole stage before it can live on land.
What is grow lungs so it can breathe air or grow legs so it can hop ?
500
The three categories of change that can occur in an ecosystem.
What are living things, natural events, and seasonal changes ?
500
The name of the largest group of invertebrates with a hard covering outside of its body.
What are arthropods?