Inherited and Acquired Traits
Explain the difference between inherited and acquired traits.
What is: Inherited traits are passed from parents to offspring, while acquired traits are learned?
This is the ultimate source of energy for all living organisms.
What is: the sun?
Explain what a structure is.
What is: a part of an organism (plant or animal)
A jack rabbit might have this adaptation to keep it cool in the desert
What is: large ears
Explanation: Blood flows through the ears to cool down before it gets back to its body
Energy flows through a food web, while matter _______.
What is: cycles?
Explain what an adaptation is.
A bush is an example of this part of a food web (scientifically)
What is: a producer?
What is: what a structure does to help the plant survive
This adaptation helps grassland plants not break when strong winds blow against them
What is: a flexible stem
Freckles are this kind of trait
What is: inherited/physical
This is an example of what kind of trait:
scaly skin
What is: an inherited/physical trait?
Explain the difference between a producer and a consumer
What is: a producer produces its own food/energy, while a consumer has to eat something else to get energy.
What is: aquatic?
The chloroplast in a plant has this function
What is: to absorb sunlight for photosynthesis
Give one example of an acquired trait that an animal in a hot, dry environment might develop.
Answers may very:
- burrowing underground
- only coming out at night
- living under shrubs/trees
Identify one predator in this food chain:
grass---> grasshopper----> bird-----> fox
What is: bird/fox
This is the function of shallow roots on a desert plant
What is: to soak up water as quickly as possible?
This is an acquired trait that many desert animals use to handle the extreme heat
What is: burrowing or becoming nocturnal (active at night)
This structure of a plant is responsible for absorbing Carbon Dioxide (CO2) for photosynthesis
What is: stomata?
Give one example of an inherited trait that an animal in an aquatic environment may have.
Give an example of an organism that is a consumer, but not a predator.
Answers may vary: could be any animal that is an herbivore (only eats plants) or a scavenger (only eats dead animals)
This structure's function is to trap water inside a plant
What is: waxy coating/waxy leaves
This is the thick root that digs very deep to keep a plant with shallow roots anchored to the ground
What is: a tap root?
Explain why you might find a nautilus shell fossil in the middle of a desert
What is: the desert used to be covered in ocean/aquatic