Life Cycles
What is the first stage in a butterfly’s life cycle?
What is the first stage in a butterfly’s life cycle?
Egg
What tool measures temperature?
Thermometer
What is a fossil?
A preserved sign of life from the past
Which of these traits is inherited?
Eye color
What is motion?
movement: a change in position
Which animal does NOT go through metamorphosis? Frog, butterfly, turtle, wasp
turtle
What does a rain gauge measure?
Amount of rainfall
Where are most fossils found?
Sedimentary rock
What do you inherit from your parents?
→ Traits like hair color, eye shape, etc
What force pulls things toward Earth?
gravity
What is the purpose of a life cycle?
→ To show how living things grow and change
What do clouds help scientists do?
Predict the weather
What can fossils tell us?
→ What plants and animals lived long ago
Which of the following is a learned behavior?
a.) speaking a language
b.) eye color
c.) height
Speaking a language
Is magnetism a contact or non-contact force?
non-contact
Which part of a plant makes seeds?
Flower
Why does weather change from day to day?
Because of moving air masses and changes in temperature and pressure
Why might a fossil of a fish be found in a dry desert?
→ The desert used to be underwater
What is the word for traits passed down from parents?
→ Heredity
What can stop or slow motion
Friction
What is the complete life cycle of a frog?
Egg → Tadpole → Froglet → Adult
What type of weather might you expect if dark, tall clouds start to form?
Rain or thunderstorms
Why are fossils important to scientists?
They show what animals looked like long ago
Which of these is NOT inherited?
a. eye color
b. height
c,favorite food
d. hair color
→ Favorite food
Two types force
Gravity and magnetism