Vocabulary
Traits
A feature or characteristic of an organism
How many steps do you take for to successfully create a working model?
as many as it takes
A behavior we are born knowing
Instinct
True or False
Offspring look exactly like one parent or the other
False
A message from the tip of your finger to your brain travels though...
Nerves, or nervous system
Anything that can be changed in an experiment.
Variable
The first model of something
Prototype
A bird flying for the first time is an example of
an instinct
One variation to the trait of eye color in cats
(any color)
When someone drops a ruler and you try to catch it, this is an example of...
reaction time
The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates
environment
Which step do we evaluate the prototype?
Testing
Hibernation is an example of
an instinct
Inherited traits come from
parents to offspring
Maria finds a grasshopper in her driveway, where should she put it so it could best survive?
Grass
Differences among living things of the same kind.
Variations
Name one variable in the parachute experiment
(Length of suspension lines, number of canopies, canopy material)
Eating with a fork is an example of
a Learned Behavior
One trait of Asian Ladybugs that had no variation.
Head pattern
Eyes, tongue and skin are examples of
Sense organs
inheritance
getting traits from parents
How many variables should be tested at a time?
one
Burning your hand on the stove, then avoiding a hot stove is an example of learning by gathering through your ______________, processing the information and storing it as a memory.
senses
The trait variation that helped beetles survive in our simulation
Color
What is the largest organ of the human body?
Skin