Built to Survive
Which part of a plant helps it take in water and hold it in place in the soil?
What are roots?
Which body part helps most animals see what's around them?
What are eyes?
What do we call the preserved remains of plants or animals found in rock?
What are fossils?
What do we call a big shaking of the ground that often happens near plate boundaries?
What is an earthquake?
What is one natural Earth event that can cause the ground to shake and damage buildings?
What is an earthquake?
What does a plant’s stem help it do?
What is hold the plant up and move water and nutrients?
Your hand touches something hot. What does your brain tell your body to do?
What is move it away (or pull back your hand)?
If you find seashell fossils in a rock layer on top of plant fossils, what does that tell you?
What is the land was once underwater?
Many volcanoes are found around the edges of what ocean?
What is the Pacific Ocean?
What is one thing people can build to help stay safe during a flood?
What is a levee or a dam?
Name an external body part (outside the body) that helps an animal survive and explain how it helps.
What is fur, because it keeps the animal warm? (Other valid answers: claws, beak, tail, etc.)
What does the brain do with the information it gets from the senses?
What is it processes the information and decides how to respond?
You see a canyon with a river at the bottom and many layers in the walls. What caused the canyon to form?
What is the river slowly cut through the rock over time?
If you look at a world map, you will see a lot of mountains and volcanoes along the west coast of South America. What does that tell you?
What is there’s a plate boundary there?
Name one way scientists help people stay safe from volcanoes.
What is they monitor volcanoes for signs they might erupt?
The heart, lungs, and stomach are examples of what kind of structure in animals?
What are internal structures?
Other answers: organs, internals
True or false: All animals respond the same way to the same information. Why?
What is false? Different animals respond in different ways depending on their bodies, senses, and instincts.
True or false: Fossils found deeper underground are usually older than the ones found closer to the surface.
What is true?
True or false: Earthquakes and volcanoes happen randomly all over the Earth. Why?
What is false? They happen in patterns near tectonic plate boundaries.
How can buildings be made safer during earthquakes?
What is designing earthquake-resistant buildings or using flexible materials?
How do the colorful petals of a flower help with reproduction?
What is they attract pollinators like bees?
A deer hears a stick snap in the woods. Describe the full path the information takes, from hearing the sound to what the deer does next.
What is the ears hear the sound, send a signal to the brain, and the brain tells the deer to run?
A mountain has layers of fossils: shells at the bottom, then ferns, then animal bones at the top. What story do these layers tell about how the landscape (think land types - ocean, swamp, etc.) changed over time?
What is the land changed from ocean to swampy land to dry land with animals?
What kind of map shows mountains, valleys, and other shapes of the land using wavy lines?
What is a topographic map?
Which solution is better during an earthquake: a tall glass building with no supports or a low building with flexible materials? Why?
What is a low building with flexible materials, because it can move with the shaking and won’t break as easily? Flexible buildings can bend without falling, which keeps people safer during earthquakes.