Organisms
plants and animals
How are organisms classified?
The main purpose of a flower is to ___________.
What is make seeds?
What is a life cycle
The way animals or plants live their lives.
Organisms in the same kingdom have similar ______ and these are used to sort organisms into smaller groups.
What is traits?
Specific behavior patterns depend on what?
What other organisms are around
the availability of food or other resources
Physical characteristics
the sensory organs animals use to survive
Can you list them?
What are the five senses?
sight, touch, hearing, taste, smell.
Animals without a backbone?
What is an invertebrate?
Any living thing
What is an organism?
What are the two types of plnats? Give an example of each
Flowering and non flowering.
fruit tree fern
What are some animals adaptations?
Longer fur, shorter fur, claws.
The differences between inherited behavior and learned behavior are ______________________________.
What are: inherited behavior--actions parents pass on to offspring or an instinct -- a way of acting that is not learned; and learned behavior -- when an animal changes its behavior through experience?
What is a vertebrate?
Animals with a backbone
How are plants and animals divided?
By their physical characteristics.
These plants make spores to reporuduce.
What is a nonflowering plant.
What types of adaptations do plants have?
Thorns, long roots, short roots.
The changing of color, shape, or adding new body parts.
What is metamorphosis?
What is the life cycle of an animal that lays eggs?
egg, old, young
Write down two characteristics plants and aminals share.
1. They both reporduce
2. They both adapt to their environments to survive.
The three main parts of a plant’s life cycle are the _______, __________, and the ___________.
Seed, seedling, mature plant.
List the four adaptations we have learned
Defense, locomotion (movement), camoflauge, obtaining resources.
Give me three reasons animals characteristics are affected
1. Temperatures in the environment will change how thick or thin an animals fur is
2. Changing of the seasons will change an animals coat.
3. Sunlight can cause changes to the skin color of humans and other animals.
What is the life cycle of an animal that gives live births?
young, old