PlANTS
ANIMALS
INSECTS
Adaptations: structural, environmental, behavioral, physiological
Life Cycles
100
light fluffy seeds from the dandelion plant helps...
What helps dandelions spread to many locations in the school yard?
100
a behavioral adaptation for a Virginia opossum
What is running, growling, becoming stiff, drooling and playing dead?
100
egg, larva, pupa, adult
What is the correct order of the stages of metamorphosis?
100
Eating milkweed leaves which contain sap that is toxic to many animals but not to monarch butterflies caterpillars. This trait protects the monarch from predators.
What is an inherited trait of monarch butterfly caterpillars?
100
egg - tadpole - frog let - adult frog
What is the life cycle of a frog? What is an incomplete metamorphosis?
200
Ground-hugging, low growing plants. Leaves coated with tiny hairs. Fast-growing plant with short flowering period. show short video about Tundra Biome: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83AvChhe6iU
What is a plant adaptation for survival in a tundra environment where growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing season?
200
webbed feet
What foot is better adapted for surviving in a water environment?
200
All of these are important in making a web about metamorphosis EXCEPT: change, stages, adulthood, freezing
What is freezing?
200
The cactus has thorns and thick skin for living in a desert environment.
What is a structural adaptation?
200
egg - larva/caterpillar - pupa/chrysalis - adult monarch
What is the life cycle of a butterfly? What is a complete metamorphosis?
300
long beak of a hummingbird
What is an adaptation which enables the hummingbird to obtain nectar from deep inside a flower?
300
Number of Days in Each Life Cycle A egg=1, larva=4, pupa=5, adult=20 B egg=3, larva=5, pupa=2, adult=10 C egg=2, larva=3, pupa=3, adult=14 D egg=4, larva=?, pupa=4, adult=12 E egg=1, larva=4, pupa=6, adult=25
Which insect spends twice as much time as an adult as a larva? Which insect has the shortest total life span? If the total average life span of Insect D is 24 days, how much time does Insect D spend in the larva stage?
300
Plants with short growing seasons must grow quickly and set seeds before the winter weather moves in.
What is an environmental adaptation?
300
egg-meal worm/larva-pupa/chrysalis-adult/Darkling Beetle
What is the life cycle of the Darkling Beetle? What is a complete metamorphosis?
400
All of the following are adaptations that help animals survive in a cold environment EXCEPT: growing thick fur, hibernating, climbing a tree, gathering and storing food
What is climbing a tree?
400
Animals that eat lots of food to store up fat reserves and sleep for long periods of time in cold winter months. Animals that slow their breathing rate down and pretend they are dead to avoid predators.
What is behavioral adaptation?
400
seed germinates - plant grows - plant flowers - flower produces fruit - fruit releases seeds - plant dies http://theseedsite.co.uk/lifecycle.gif
What is the life cycle of a plant?
500
The tropical rain forest of Sumatra has an abundance of fruit and seeds. Birds use their beaks to crack open hard seeds and cut off pieces of fruit.
What is a parrot beak? http://www.biology-resources.com/images/bird-beak-parrot-big.jpg
500
Animals secreting venom and plants self pruning.
What is a physiological adaptation?
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