Key Events in American Revolution
The year the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is 1776?
This stage comes after birth and before reproduction in all living things.
What is growth?
This animal's long neck is an inherited trait that helps it reach food high in trees.
What is a giraffe?
Meerkats live in groups to protect each other from these.
What are predators?
This is the term for animals that hunt for prey to eat.
What are predators?
The colonial protest where tea was thrown into the Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
Frogs lay their eggs in this environment.
What is water?
This type of trait is passed down from parents to offspring.
What is an inherited trait?
These animals keep watch while others find food in group-living species.
What are lookouts?
The animals that predators hunt for food are called this.
What is prey?
This battle marked the end of the Revolutionary War.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This process occurs when a plant grows from a seed.
What is germination?
An example of an inherited trait.
What is hair color, eye color, detached ear lobes, dimples, hair texture, skin color, etc.?
Wildebeests use this group behavior to avoid predators while grazing.
What is keeping watch (looking out)?
Salmon swim in these to stay safe and find food together.
What are schools?
This phrase was the colonists' slogan, expressing their frustration with being taxed by Britain without representation.
What is "No taxation without representation"?
Frogs go through this stage after the tadpole and before becoming adults.
What is the froglet stage?
Inherited traits like fur color and eye shape are passed down from these.
What are parents?
These animals with large, flappy ears live in groups to protect their young and help each other find food, which helps them live longer.
What are elephants?
Animals use this strategy to hide from predators by blending into their surroundings.
What is camouflage?
These laws, passed in response to the Boston Tea Party, were meant to punish the people of Massachusetts.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
The series of stages a living thing goes through, from birth to death.
What is a life cycle?
This special stage in the ladybug's life cycle comes before it becomes an adult.
What is the larva stage?
Animals in groups can work together to do this to predators.
What is avoid them?
This behavior allows animals to avoid predators by working together in groups.
What is cooperation (working in groups)?