True or False: Are physical and behavioral characteristics determined by environment and heredity?
What is True.
100
What does an animal that is a vertebrate mean?
What is they have a backbone.
100
How many body systems are there?
What are 7.
100
Birds have very small light bones so they are able to take flight easier. Is this a physical or behavioral adaptation?
What is physical adaptation.
100
True or False: If a volcano erupts it may cause plants and animals to go extinct?
What is true. Why?
200
What is a behavioral characteristic?
What is the way animals behave
200
What does cold-blooded mean?
What is the animal's body temperature changes with enviornment
200
What does genetic relatedness mean?
What is a closeness or heredity in traits of an organism.
200
What is adaptation?
What is physical or behavioral changes in order to survive.
200
What is a catastrophic event?
What is a natural occurrence in which the environment is drastically changed.
300
What is it called when an animal uses or changes behavioral characteristics in order to survive?
What is an adaptation.
300
What are vertebrates?
What are animals with a backbone.
300
Why do people who run in long distance races need to drink water?
What is to replace water lost by sweating.
300
What is a physical adaptation?
What is a change in body structure to help an animal survive (snow hare)
300
What two ways do scientists study the history of animals and environmental conditions?
What are fossils and rock layers.
400
Suzie can roll her tongue, kick a soccer ball far, is left handed, and has green eyes. Which is NOT an inherited characteristic?
What is kick a soccer ball far.
400
What two body systems are responsible for bringing oxygen to a muscle?
What are respiratory and circulatory.
400
A bear cub takes its turn to catch its fish. Is that a learned behavior or learned adaptation?
What is a learned adaptation.
500
What are the three types of characteristics and their definitions?
What is physical, behavioral, and inherited. Answers may vary as for definitions.
500
If scientists said that a robin and a reindeer are in the same classification, what two classifications would they both fit in?
What are warm blooded and vertebrates.
500
When you are washing a car and accidentally spray yourself with water, your body knows the temperature. What body system does it use to recognize that?
What is the nervous system.
500
A mother and baby cow join the rest of a herd, and it becomes difficult to find them because they blend in. Is this due to an adapting trait called camouflage or an adaptive trait called habit?