Vocabulary
What are adaptations?
Adaptations are characteristics that help plants and animals survive in their environment.
What is one adaptation a bear might have?
Examples:
Thick fur
Hibernation
Sharp teeth/claws
Is a baby human learning to walk an instinct or a learned behavior?
Learned behavior.
What is one way to classify animals?
Examples:
Number of legs
Meat eater or plant eater
Lungs or gills
Vertebrates or invertebrates
Scales, fur, or feathers
What is the sepal?
The sepal protects the flower bud.
What are instincts?
Instincts are behaviors that animals are born with.
What is one adaptation of zebras?
Stripes.
Is a porcupine using its quills to protect itself an instinct or a learned behavior?
An instinct.
How does the bee-like appearance of the flower help the bee-orchid?
What are the stamen and pistol?
The male and female parts of a flower.
What is reproduction?
What adaptation might be useful for an animal that eats nectar from plants?
Fins, wings, fast legs, or short beak?
Wings
Which is an example of an instinct?
A spider spins a web.
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A sea lion balances a ball on its nose.
A dog stays away from skunks.
A spider spins a web.
Which is an inherited characteristic of an animal?
Staying away from predators.
Opening doors that have sensors.
Fetching a ball.
Having white feathers.
Having white feathers.
What are the waste products of Photosynthesis?
Oxygen and sugar.
Describe the difference between chloroplasts and chlorophyll.
Chloroplasts are where photosynthesis takes place. Chlorophyll is the pigment that gives plants their green color.
How does having sharp teeth help the beaver survive in its environment?
It is able to cut down trees to create dams to live in.
How does a bear's instinct to hibernate help it survive?
It helps it conserve its energy when food is scarce.
Which characteristic shows a change due to a stimulus in the environment?
A zebra's stripes have a different pattern than its parent.
A pea plant grows white flowers.
A flamingo's feathers turn pink due to its diet.
A flamingo's feathers turn pink due to its diet.
If two parent pea plants have pink flowers what color will the offspring pea plant be?
Pink
Describe the process of Photosynthesis.
Plants take in carbon dioxide and create sugar and oxygen.
What is one adaptation that might help a red-tailed hawk survive better in an environment that another red-tailed hawk?
Better eyesight.
How does a goose's instinct to migrate help it survive?
It helps it know that it needs to go south for the winter where it is warmer.
Mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.
Explain how seed dispersal helps a plant reproduce.
Seeds are moved to new areas where they have room to grow and thrive.