Adaptations
True of false: All organisms of the same species share the same adaptations.
False
This organ is the command center of the body.
Brain
To put harmful materials into the air, water, or soil
Pollute
A streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in Earth's atmosphere.
Meteor
To make more of a species.
Reproduce
What happens to an organism that can not adapt to environmental change?
They die off.
Plants use this process to convert sunlight into energy.
Photosynthesis
Natural, nonliving solid crystal that makes up rocks.
Minerals
A natural satellite that revolves around a planet.
Moon
The part of an organism you can see.
Feature
Some animals, like chameleons and octopuses, use this adaptation to blend into their surroundings and avoid predators.
Camouflage
Changes, occurring within or outside the body, that affect nervous system functioning.
Stimuli
The many different types of life that exist in an environment.
Biodiversity
Small objects mostly found in orbit between Mars and Jupiter.
Asteroids
Some traits, like eye color in humans or fur patterns in animals, are passed from parent to offspring through these units of heredity.
Genes
Unlike physical adaptations, these types of adaptations involve how animals behave, such as birds migrating south for the winter.
Behavioral adapatations
Specialized cells that convert physical energy into electrical energy that can be transmitted as nerve impulses to the brain.
Sense receptors
______ can lead to extinction by changing the conditions of the species' environment so much that the species cannot survive.
Habitat destruction
Observatory
The reason siblings from the same parents may look different is because they inherit a unique combination of traits from each parent through this process.
Genetic variation or inheritance
Adult and baby groundhogs have curved sharp claws for digging. What is the best explanation for why the baby groundhogs are born with curved sharp claws?
Inherited trait
Conducting cells of the nervous system, specialized for transmitting impulses
Neurons
What would NOT contribute to species becoming extinct?
Ms. Jaffe will decide if your answer is correct!
The solar system contains the sun, planets with their moons, and which three objects?
Asteroids, comets, meteors
Lindsey has black hair like her dad, but she cannot color inside the lines like her mother. What explains the difference between Lindsey and her mother?
Black hair is an inherited characteristic, but coloring inside the lines is a learned behavior.