Detects colors, shapes, sizes, space/distance, light, and, movement
What is sight?
100
Animals are born with certain behaviors that allow them to survive.
What are instincts?
100
In order to survive within an ecosystem, plants, and animals act in distinctive ways.
What are behaviors?
100
Animals, including humans, have ___________ that allow them to detect changes in their environments.
What are sensory organs?
100
Seeds will not ____________ if the proper amount of rainfall or temperature is not available
What is germinate?
200
Receives vibrations and detects sound.
What is hearing?
200
A response to a change in the environment. Both plants and animals respond to their environment.
What is a behavior?
200
Some characteristics that organisms have are __________ (come from their parents).
What is inherited?
200
Examples include echolocation in bats, night vision of some snakes, electric senses of rays and sharks, and magnetic senses of migratory birds, butterflies, and some whales.
What are special senses some animals have to survive?
200
Building houses, paving roads, cutting forests.
What are examples of how humans change ecosystems?
300
Detect flavors; humans detect salty, sweet, bitter, and/or sour. Allows you to judge which foods are okay to eat.
What is taste?
300
A change of behavior resulting from specific experiences.
What is learning?
300
Some examples of animal characteristics may be weight, hair length, or changes due to injury.
Some examples of plant characteristics may be number of leaves, length of roots, or amount of branching.
What is physical characteristics of organisms that change over time?
300
Any part of the body that receives signals from the environment. They help to keep them out of danger and enable them to find food and shelter.
What are sensory organs?
300
Recycling, planting trees, not littering, reduce carbon emissions...
What are examples of how humans can help ecostystems?
400
Detects odors and allows one to avoid danger; find food; and recognize other organisms.
What is smell?
400
Examples include a duck knowing how to swim across the lake without being taught, different birds build different types of nests without being taught how, and migration and hibernation.
What are instincts?
400
Examples may be:
o A dog can learn to roll over on command.
o A baby bird is taught to fly by its parent.
o A bear learns to fish for food.
What are learned behaviors?
400
Plants respond to light, water, gravity, and touch. Some examples of ways in which plants respond to their environment may be:
•Their roots grow down, while stems grow up.
•Vines will grow up a support; or some leaves close up
when touched.
•Leaves grow toward the light.
What are behavoirs?
400
Animals fertilize the fields on which they graze and new plants can grow; beavers create pond environments in which new plants and animals can survive; and kudzu can be used for food or other resources.
What are helpful changes organisms cause in the enviroment?
500
Detects shapes, size, temperature, texture, pain, vibrations, and pressure. Allows them to identify food; react to dangerous situations; and care for each other.
What is touch?
500
Some examples include: a dog can learn to roll over on command, a baby bird is taught to fly by its parent, and a bear learns to fish for food.
What are learned behaviors?
500
Some examples of this type of animal physical characteristics may be type and color of body coloring, type and shape of sensory organ, or body structure. Some examples of this type of plant physical characteristics may be type of leaf, color of flowers, or type of fruit.
What is inherited?
500
The number of organisms in an environment will increase or decrease depending on the availability of __________ & ____________.
What are food and other resources?
500
Herd animals might overgraze land leading to erosion, beavers build dams which block the flow of water; and kudzu, a plant that was introduced from another environment, has overgrown many other plants and trees in their environment.
What are harmful changes organisms cause in the environment?