Inherited and Acquired Traits
This type of trait is passed down from parents to offspring, like eye color or fur pattern.
Inherited Trait
This large group of animals has a backbone.
What are vertebrates?
This group of plants makes seeds, like trees and flowering plants.
What are seed-producing plants?
This type of reaction causes bioluminescence in animals.
What is a chemical reaction?
This type of process builds up the Earth’s surface, like when lava forms new land or sediment creates a delta.
What is a constructive process?
Learning to ride a bike or getting a scar are examples of this type of trait.
Acquired trait
Animals without a backbone, such as insects and worms, belong to this group.
What are invertebrates?
Mosses and ferns belong to what group?
What are non–seed-producing plants?
Name one acquired trait an octopus has.
Learning to camouflage/hide, avoiding danger, using tools, solving puzzles, squeeze into tight places, etc.
These processes break down or wear away the Earth’s surface, such as erosion by water, wind, or earthquakes.
What are destructive processes?
This is the difference between inherited and acquired traits: one is passed down, and the other is developed during life.
What is how the trait is obtained or developed?
Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals are all subgroups of this main animal group.
What are vertebrates?
This type of seed-producing plant makes seeds in cones rather than inside fruits.
What are conifers?
These vertebrates are warm-blooded, have hair or fur, and usually give birth to live young.
What are mammals?
This landform is created over time by the movement of water, wind, or ice wearing away rock and soil.
What is a canyon?
This characteristic is learned over time and not passed down from parents, such as learning a new skill or developing muscles.
Acquired trait
This vertebrate group is cold-blooded, lays eggs, and usually lives both on land and in water during its life cycle.
What are amphibians?
A fern is placed in the non–seed-producing plant group because it reproduces using this instead of seeds.
What are spores?
These seed-producing plants produce flowers and fruits to protect their seeds.
What are flowering plants?
This flat, fertile landform is created by the buildup of sediment where a river meets a larger body of water.
What is a delta?
This is what you are doing when you explain whether a trait is inherited or acquired using words, pictures, or models.
Communicating information
This vertebrate group has scales, lays eggs on land, and is cold-blooded.
What are reptiles?
This is the main difference scientists use to classify plants into two major groups.
What is whether they produce seeds?
Write one exhibit design from the Georgia Aquarium that we could possibly make next Exhibit Night.
Something cool.
This type of circuit allows electricity to flow along only one path, so if one part is broken, the entire circuit stops working.
What is a series circuit?