Beaks and Claws
The Freckled Reader
What's for dinner?
What a life cycle!
Randomness
100
A body part or behavior that helps a living thing survive
What is an adaptation?
100
A characteristic that is passed from parents to their offspring. Give 3 examples.
What are inherited traits? (The color of eyes, dark green leaves, dark hair, sharp teeth)
100
An animal with a long pointy beak and long legs that wades by the water most likely eats this.
What are fish?
100
The stage of the plant's life cycle where seeds are produced.
What is the adult?
100
An example of an acquired trait. a. Blue eyes b. Small feet c. Bruise on leg
What is Bruise on Leg?
200
Some animals such as polar bears, arctic hare, preying mantis, chameleon, grasshopper adapt by doing this, which allows them to blend in with their environment.
What is camouflage?
200
Give 3 examples of learned behaviors of animals.
What are doing tricks, begging for food at the dinner table, avoiding a skunk who sprayed them in the past, tipping a trash can to get food?
200
An small animal with a long, fast, sticky tongue most likely eats this.
What are bugs and insects?
200
Two stages in their correct order, that you will not find in incomplete metamorphosis.
What are the larva and pupa stages?
200
Johnny said "As the temperature gets hotter, more birds come to the bird bath." If Johnny researches this, he would need to keep track of these two pieces of data.
What is the temperature outside and the number of birds on bird bath?
300
Name 3 adaptations an animal living in the Arctic might have to help it survive in the environment.
What are blubber to keep warm, feathers, white skin or fur to camouflage?
300
Shape of leaves, texture of leaves, color of flower, and height.
What are inherited traits of plants?
300
Comparing a nymph and a larva, one is more likely to eat the same thing as the adult.
What is a nymph?
300
The part of the plant that will develop into the fruit of the plant.
What is the flower or the blossom?
300
One of the following is NOT a learned behavior? a) Skipping b) A dog walking on a leash c) An arctic hare's white fur d) A bird building its nest on top of a lamp post.
What is an arctic hare's white fur? Note: nesting is instinct, but where a bird nests is learned
400
Name two adaptations of a desert plant and how the adaptations help it survive in its environment.
What are waxy stems, spiny needles? Accept reasonable responses.
400
3 ways you can learn a behavior.
What are 1) being taught 2) watching 3) interacting (experiencing) with the environment?
400
Animals that are nocturnal usually have these so they can see their prey better at night.
What are big eyes?
400
egg > larve > pupa > adult
What is complete metamorphosis?
400
Turtles lay their eggs in the sand on the beach. They do not stay there to raise their young. When the baby turtles hatch they go straight toward the sea. This is an example of..
What is instinct?
500
Name two adaptations of a penguin. How do these adaptations help it survive in its environment?
What are feathers, flippers, webbed feet, beak to catch fish, storage stomach? Accept reasonable responses.
500
Three things you inherited from your parents and 3 behaviors you have learned.
inherited: freckles, curly hair, blue eyes, same shape fingernails behaviors: tying shoes, climbing stairs, using the remote Accept all reasonable responses.
500
Hunting is an instinct, but how, when and where an animal chooses to hunt are learned. Give an example of this.
A coyote always hunts but he may have learned to avoid the edge of the forest since there are cars on the highway. He may also hunt in a certain part of the forest at about sunset each day because he has learned that is when the most rabbits are there.
500
The part of the incomplete metamorphosis that comes before adult?
What is the Nymph?
500
Type of feet, beak, skin, fur, feathers, hands, thorns, bright flowers and many more are all structural adaptations. Camouflage, mimicry, hibernation, and migration are special behavioral adaptations. All adaptations have at least one of 5 purposes. Name 4 of the purposes of adaptations.
Get or retain water, get food, protection from predators or environment, air, reproduce
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