Plants
What is a vascular plant?
Plants with vascular tissue that grow tall. Examples include flowers, trees, and ferns.
How are animals classified?
Vertebrates and Invertebrates
Warm-blooded and Cold Blooded
What are 2 examples of traits?
Traits are features or visible characteristics.
They can include things like hair color, tooth shape, beak shape, bone size, or muscle structure.
How can we remember the 5 groups of vertebrates?
BFARM!
Describe the characteristics of a mammal.
a warm-blooded vertebrate animal that has hair or fur, produces milk by females for the nourishment of the young, and (typically) the birth of live young (don’t lay eggs).
How are plants classified?
Vascular and Non-Vascular
Seeded and Seedless
Angiosperm and Gymnosperm
What are the 5 phyla (groups) of vertebrates?
BFARM!
Birds, Fish, Amphibians, Reptiles and Mammals
Compare and contract instincts and learned behaviors.
Instincts are the things you are born knowing how to do, like breathing and crying. Learned behaviors are things you learn how to do after you are born, like riding a bike or learning how to write.
ANGIE loves flowers! Flowers for Angie!
Describe the characteristics of a reptile.
Have Scales
Cold Blooded
Lays Eggs
Vertebrate Animals
What is an example of a non-vascular plant?
Mosses
Give an example of an invertebrate.
Spider, Crab, Octopus, Ladybug
Compare and contrast inherited and acquired traits.
Inherited traits are trails your are born with, like hair color, eye color, or height. Acquired traits are those you get after birth, like scar or a tattoo.
At the gym! Gymnosperms!
Describe the characteristics of a amphibian.
Amphibians are vertebrate animals such as frogs and toads that can live both on land and in water
Describe an angiosperm.
Plants that have flowers and produce seeds.
Give an example of an animal instinct.
Fish – Swimming
Chickens – Pecking
Lovebirds – Nest Building
Mammals – Suckling to get milk
Birds – Migrating south
Squirrel – Hibernating
Beaver – Making Dam
Spider – Spinning a web
What kind of trait is received from a parent?
What is a vascular plant with no seeds? What does it have instead?
Describe characteristics of a fish.
a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins and living wholly in water
Are seed producers vascular or non-vascular?
VASCULAR!
What group of phyla (group) does a shark belong to?
Fish!
Give an example of an acquired physical trait?
Scars
Calluses on feet
Tattoo
Teeth marks on turtle shells
What is the type of plant that lies flat on the ground? Is is vascular or non-vascular? seeded or non-seeded?
Moss, non-vascular, non-seeded
Describe the characteristics of a bird.
Correct Answer: Beak, feathers, flight, lungs, warm-blooded, lay eggs