True or False
A vertebrate does not have a backbone.
What is False? (A vertebrate does have a backbone.)
Name an omnivore.
What are bears, gorillas, birds, dogs, raccoons, foxes, certain insects, and even humans?
An invertebrate has no ________________ .
What is a backbone?
This adaption often helps animals hide from their predators.
(begins with the letter "c")
What is camouflage?
This is not an example of an instinctive behavior.
A.) a spider building a web
B.) a lion jumping through a hoop at a circus
C.) cat feeding her kittens
D.) bird building a nest
What is B?
A producer makes it's own food.
What is TRUE?
Name a carnivore.
What are lions, tigers, wolves, leopards, hyenas, polar bears, and cheetahs?
_______________ help breakdown dead organisms.
(producers, consumers, decomposers or omnivores)
What are decomposers?
The shape of a bird's beak could be an example of an ___________ .
(begins with the letter "a")
What is an adaption?
This is not an example of an invertebrate.
A.) octopus
B.) sea jelly
C.) earthworm
D.) lizard
What is D? (A lizard is a vertebrate, it has a backbone.)
An omnivore only eats meat.
What is FALSE? (A carnivore only eats meat.)
Name an herbivore.
What are deer, koalas, some bird species, as well as invertebrates such as crickets and caterpillars?
Food _______ are made up of many food ________ .
(webs/chains or chains/webs)
What are webs/chains?
A skunk's smelly spray protects it from __________ .
(begins with the letter "p")
What are predators?
In a food chain with berries, deer, and tigers... this will happen if the tigers disappear.
A.) Nothing
B.) there will be more berries
C.) There will be more deer
D.) There will be less deer
What is C? (There will be more deer because there are no tigers that will eat them!)
A community is made up of one type of organism in one area.
What is False? (A community is made up of all types of organisms in one area.)
Name an amphibian.
What are frogs, toads, salamanders and newts?
Eye color is an ______________ characteristic.
(adaptive, inherited, or acquired)
What is an inherited characteristic?
A callous that develops on someone's finger from playing the guitar is an example of an ______________ characteristic.
(begins with the letter "a")
What is an acquired characteristic?
In a food chain that has a hyena, a snake, and a frog.... this could come before the frog in the food chain.
A.) an insect
B.) a rat
C.) a squirrel
D.) an owl
What is an insect? (Frogs eat insects.)
Nursing their young, having hair/fur, and being warm blooded are all characteristics of a mammal.
What is True?
Name a reptile.
What are turtles, lizards, snakes, and crocodiles?
Living things need _________, __________, and _________ to survive.
What are food, water, and air?
Animals that are cold blooded and have dry, scaly skin are called ______ .
(begins with the letter "r")
What are reptiles?
In the food chain that includes plants, sheep, wolves, and lions... these are herbivores.
A.) lions
B.) wolves
C.) plants
D.) sheep
What is D? (Sheep are herbivores, they eat plants.)