A behavior that an animal or plant does to stay safe or get resources.
What is a function?
100
What is an offspring?
Answers may vary
Child, baby or product of a parent plant or animal
100
Name the 3 R's.
What is reduce, reuse, and recycle?
100
Name the five stages of a tomato plant.
What is seed, young plant, adult plant, flower and fruit?
100
What science tool and what unit of measurement would you use to find the length of a mealworm?
What is ruler?
What are centimeters?
200
What adaptation does an insect or animal have to blend into its environment?
What is camouflage?
200
What are characteristics that are passed from parents to their offspring?
Inherited traits
200
Give an example of how to reuse a tire.
Tire swing
200
This is the stage in your life cycle when you learned how to multiply.
What is the child stage?
200
What is another entry for parts of a plant?
roots
leaves
flower
fruit
What is a stem?
300
If you wanted to create a model of a porcupine, hedgehog, or a cactus to show how they would protect themselves from predators, what materials could you use?
Possible answers:
needles
pins
toothpicks
staples
300
Polar bears have special pads on their feet that keep them from slipping on the ice and snow in the arctic tundra. Is this type of adpatation an inherited trait or learned behavior?
Inherited trait
300
Turning off the lights when you leave a room and the water when you are brushing your teeth are examples of what?
What is conservation or reducing?
300
What is germination?
When a plant breaks out of its seed and the roots begin to grow down in the soil and the stem and leaves grow up out of the ground.
300
Name three ways seeds are spread.
Answers may vary.
Animals fur
Wind - ex. blowing the seeds off a flower
Water
Animals eating
400
What is an example of a structure that would be inherited by an animal to survive in its environment?
Answers may vary.
Ex. - a duck's webbed feet to help it swim in the pond, thick fur to keep warm in the arctic, a jackrabbit's big ears to stay cool in the desert.
400
An animal hunting for its food
A toddler walking
Birds migrating for the winter
Riding a bike
These are all examples of what?
Learned behaviors
400
A material that is found in nature and is used by living things.
What is a natural resource?
400
Compare the life cycles of a ladybug and frog. Name two stages they have in common.
Both begin as eggs and become adults.
400
Why would a scientist repeat an investigation more than one time?
To make sure it is reliable
500
This is a function of an animal that allows it to survive during the cold winter when very little food is available.
What is hibernation?
500
Which of these would not be an inherited trait?
Color of eyes
Blubber to keep warm
Scar from an attack by a predator
Thick fur
Scar from an attack
500
Why is it important to conserve natural resources?
So we do not use them all up for future generations.
500
Contrast the life cycles of a ladybug and frog. Name two different stages for each one.
Ladybug - Larva and Pupa
Frog - Tadpole and Froglet or Tadpole with legs
500
Give a title for this category:
eye color
attached or unattached ear lobes
curling your tongue
sharp claws
waterproof feathers