Plant Life Cycle
The scattering of seeds away from their parent plants.
What is dispersal?
Physical characteristics passed down to offspring from their parents.
What are inherited traits?
One full orbit of an object around another object
The process of changing water vapor into water.
What is condensation?
Materials through which an electric charge can move easily.
Materials through which an electric charge moves with difficulty.
What is a conductor?
What is an insulator?
The process through which seeds develop into a new plant.
Characteristics that were not inherited but were instead caused by interactions with the environment.
What is an acquired trait?
An imaginary center line around which a planet rotates.
What is an axis?
Living things that play a vital role in recycling nutrients.
What is a decomposer?
Electric charge in motion.
What is an electric current?
The plant structure that produces seeds for reproduction.
What is a flower?
Classify the following as either an inherited or acquired trait: Brown Fur, Strong Arms, Sharp Teeth, Broken Wing, Long Legs
Inherited, Acquired, Inherited, Acquired, Inherited
The phase of the moon when the entire half of the moon that faces Earth is lighted.
What is a full moon?
What is runoff?
Occurs when an excess positive or negative charge is built up on an object
What is static electricity?
Plants’ seeds are dispersed (spread) in different ways. Describe two ways that a plant’s seeds can be dispersed.
Seeds are dispersed by hooking onto the fur and clothes of passing living things. Seeds are dispersed by being covered by fruit and eaten by animals that carry the seed in their body and later spread it in their waste. Seeds are dispersed by floating in bodies of water or through the wind.
Provide a physical and behavioral adaptation that would most likely help an animal survive during the winter.
The fur gets thicker. Migration or hibernation.
Describe one way that the apple tree changes as fall turns to winter.
From fall to winter, the apple tree loses its leaves and fruit. It is not able to make its own food because it is not receiving enough Sun.
Identify two ways that the deer depends on plants to survive.
Nutrients/food
Camouflage/protection
Soak up toxins in the air
DD! What energy conversion takes place in a TV?
Electrical energy is converted into thermal, sound, and light energy.
List and draw the sequence of the four stages in the life cycle of an insect.
Egg -> Larva -> Pupa -> Adult
Why aren’t cold environment physical adaptations beneficial in hot environments?
Cold environment physical adaptations are not beneficial in hot environments because the adaptations are suited to take on the survival challenges in cold environments. There are different survival challenges in hot environments which those adaptations cannot tackle.
Why does the sun appear to move across the sky?
The Sun appears to move across the sky because the Earth is rotating along its axis which causes areas on Earth to turn towards and away from the Sun over the course of a day.
Explain the difference between weathering and deposition.
Weathering is the process through which rocks in Earth’s crust are slowly broken into smaller pieces. Deposition is the process through which weathered rock is carried away and dropped elsewhere.
Describe the difference between conduction, convection, and radiation.
Conduction is the transfer of heat that occurs when one thing touches another. Convection is the transfer of thermal energy as matter moves. Radiation is energy that is sent out in waves.