All living things are able to do these five things
What are?
1. reproduce
2. move
3. grow
4. respond to a stimulus
5. metabolic activities
What do invertebrates NOT have?
What is
a backbone?
This is the difference between coldblooded animals and warm-blooded animals
What is...
coldblooded animals depend on the temperature outside their bodies to get and keep them warm or cool
The water cycle
What is
evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff
important resources can we get from the sea
What is...
A. fresh water, salt, gasoline, and drift wood
B. gasoline, fresh water, salt and hydrogen
C. gas, oil, fish, and fresh water
D. oil, helium, fish, and salt
The six basic needs of living things are...
What are?
1. living space
2. proper temps
3. water
4. food
5. oxygen
6. energy
This class of invertebrate includes crustaceans, millipedes, centipedes, arachnids, and insects.
They have jointed legs (their name means jointed and leg) and exoskeletons.
What are Arthropods?
Vertebrates have this one common feature
What is a backbone?
Most of the Earth's water is found...
What is
in the oceans?
This causes tides
What is
A. wind
B. ships
C. the Moon
D. other planets
Describe a producer, consumer, and decomposer and give examples for both.
What are examples of primary and secondary consumers?
what are?
producer: make energy usable (plants)
consumer: animal that eats other animals OR plants (lion, giraffe, etc)
decomposer: gets energy from breaking down producers or consumers
primary: animal that eats only plants
secondary: animal that eats other animals
This funny named phyla of invertebrate has tentacle stinging cells and a hollow body structure, with one opening.
Give me one example.
What are Cnidarians?
Examples: jellyfish, coral, sea anemones
Fish have these three capabilities...
What are..
1. breath through gills
2. fins help them steer, stop, and swim
3. eggs reproduced outside of the female
Earth's four main oceans
Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Artic
a squid is
A. an arthropod
B. a mollusk
C. a cnidarian
D. an echinoderm
Fill in the blank:
All living things are made up of _________
All __________ come from other living _________
What are Cells?
The stages of a metamorphosis for a butterfly include these three
What are..
1. caterpillar
2. pupa
3. butterfly or moth
The life cycle of a frog or toad
What is
1. begin in water where eggs are laid
2. hatched young are called tadpoles
3. grow older with long tails instead of legs
4. develop legs and become an adult
An iceberg is ______________ and it floats because _________________
What is "pieces of glaciers that break off into seawater"
They float because they are freshwater and frozen which is less dense than sea water
A. a fish
B. an echinoderm
C. a mammal
D. a reptile
The scientific method has these six steps you must follow in order.
What are:
1. ask a question or state the problem
2. gather information
3. hypothesis
4. experiment
5. analyze data
6. state a conclusion
This phyla will have a soft body, covered with a hard shell and sometimes has a thick, muscular foot
what are Mollusks?
list four ways reptiles are different from amphibians
give four examples of reptiles
life cycle is all on land, eggs have a leathery shell, no tadpole stage, and skin of adult is dry and scaly
snakes, lizards, turtles, tortoises, crocodiles, alligators
three types of precipitation that return water to the ground
What are
rain, hail, snow
New Orleans was devastated by:
A. the 2002 tsunami
B. Hurricane Kent
C. Hurricane Katrina
D. a tornado