Adaptations
Adaptations and how they help
Heredity
Inherited Traits
Acquired Traits
100
An animal without a backbone is called this.
What is an invertebrate?
100
These help a reptile hold in water.
What are scales?
100
An inherited behavior that is done automatically is called this.
What is an instinct?
100
Traits that are passed down from parents to offspring are called these.
What are inherited traits?
100
Traits that are picked up over your lifetime are called these.
What are acquired traits?
200
An animal with a backbone is called this.
What is a vertebrate?
200
This process helps a tadpole with gills move from water to land once it becomes a frog with lungs.
What is a life cycle?
200
The process of passing inherited traits from parents to offspring is called this.
What is heredity?
200
A puppy might have different color fur than either of its parents because these combined in different ways.
What are genes?
200
An example of an acquired trait is this.
What is (answers may vary. ex: ears pierced, hair dyed, etc.)
300
A body part or behavior that helps an animal survive in its environment is called this.
What is an adaptation?
300
These help mammals like jackrabbits and elephants stay cool.
What are big ears?
300
Of the 46 of these, you received half from your mother and half from your father.
What are chromosomes?
300
Genes and your DNA are found in this cell organelle.
What is the nucleus?
300
An example of an acquired trait is this.
What is (answers may vary. ex: ears pierced, hair dyed, etc.)
400
An adaptation where an organism blends in with its environment is called this.
What is camouflage?
400
Having feathers, wings, and these help a bird to fly.
What are lightweight bones?
400
A trait that stands out because it is the stronger trait is called this.
What is a dominant trait?
400
Inherited traits can be affected by factors and changes in this.
What is the environment?
400
Acquired traits are influenced by our _____.
What is environment (or lifestyle or role models)?
500
An adaptation where an organism looks like something else or copies it is called this.
What is mimicry?
500
This type of adaptation allows the viceroy butterfly to copy the monarch butterfly.
What is mimicry?
500
A trait that does not stand out because it is the weaker trait is called this.
What is a recessive trait?
500
A cat has three kittens. Those kittens got genes from ____.
Both parents
500
When a bird discovers where a bird feeder is with good bird seed, he is exhibiting this.
What is a learned trait?
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