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Plant/Animal Structure Help Them Survive
Plant/Animal Behavior Help Them Survive
Environment Affects Survival
All Plants/Animals Survive?
Anonymous
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What is an Adaptation?
structure or behavior that helps a living thing survive in environment
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Why is living in groups a type of adaptation?
Because it can help animals find more food and be protected
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What is pollution? What are the different types?
harmful material added to environment. Air, Land, and Ocean Pollution
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What does endangered and extinct mean?
endangered is when the population number declines and is in danger of becoming extinct extinct is when plant/animal disappears completely
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What is camouflage? Why do animals do this?
colors or patterns that allow a living thing to blend with environment, to hide from predator
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What are 3 examples of adaptation in plants?
plant vines for more sun, pine trees and wax, cactus save water
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What is 2 examples of animals living in groups?
pride of lions, colonies of meerkats
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What are 2 ways we can protect the environment?
carpool, recycle, avoid littering
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Why do plants/animals become endangered and/or extinct? Give example
Because there is a change in their habitat by pollution, like burning down forest and getting sick from unhealthy chemicals.
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What are 2 examples of camouflage?
walking stick & Horned frog
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What are 3 examples of adaptation in animals?
fiddler crab:large eyes, claw spiders: escape on silk web Walrus: tusks to dig food, fat for warmth
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What happens in a pride of lions?
1 0r 2 lions stay behind to protect territory and 5 lionesses hunt for food: some attack, others hide then attack
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How do we get rid of trash? What happens in that process?
Landfills! Trash gets thrown in a large hole and is pressed on with soil/mud
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What is an example of an animal that was endangered and one that has become extinct? How?
California Condor was endangered (9 to 120 now) Tasmanian wolf has gone extinct because killed by ranchers
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What are 3 examples of moms caring for their young?
1) bird sits on egg for warmth and finds food 2) red fox dig hole to protect kids from predators 3) monkey moms groom hair for fleas
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What is migration & Hibernation? Give examples of both
migration- movement of animal from one place to another as seasons change hibernation- long deep sleep where animal heart rate and breathing is slow. No eating, drinking, or energy
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What are examples of air, land, and water things that cause pollution?
air: volcanos, fires, cars, power plant land: garbage, litter, solid waste water: trash, oil spills
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What are fossils? Give some examples
remains/marks of plant or animals that lived long ago. ex. bones, footprints, teeth
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What is the difference between TRUE and OTHER hibernators? Give examples
TRUE doesn't wake up during hibernation OTHER can get up to eat, goes back to sleep ex. TRUE is ground squirrel and OTHER is brown bear
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What is an adaptation and camouflage example of what we saw in the video of frogs protecting themselves from a fox ?
The frog can squirt blood from eyes to scare predator and can also blend with background so fox does not see it.
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Where did the gray whales and the sea turtles migrate from and to?
gray whales: Pacific Ocean to Mexico sea turtles: Atlantic Ocean to Brazil
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What can pollution lead to over time? (use scientific words we learned)
animals can become endangered and go extinct
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How does a fossil form over time? (5 steps)
1) living thing dies 2) covered by mud 3) covered by more mud over years 4) makes a rock (hardens) 5) Becomes a Fossil!
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What is Symbiosis and what are the 2 scientific words that describe it? Give example
symbiosis is the special way 2 things live together. Parasite (benefits) feeds on the Host (harmed) Flea and Dog