CELLS
Grouping Living Things
Classifying Plants
Classifying Animals
Animal Adaptation
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The building block of life.
What is a cell?
100
This system is used to identify, compare and study organisms.
What is the classification system?
100
Name one way that scientist classify plants.
Plants are classified by how they move food and water.
100
Scientists divide the animal kingdom into two groups, name these two groups.
Vertebrates and invertebrates.
100
What is adaptation and how does adaptation help an animal?
An adaptation is a physical feature or behavior. Adaptation helps animals get food, protect themselves, or reproduce.
200
This part controls a cell's activity.
What is the nucleus?
200
The largest classification system.
What is a kingdom?
200
What are Vascular plants?
Vascular plants are plants that move food and water through tubes?
200
Mollusks are the second largest groups of invertebrates. Name three animals that are mollusks.
Clams, Octopuses, Snails, Sea Slugs, and Squids.
200
What is migration?
Migration is traveling to find food or a place to reproduce.
300
These two types of cells have a cell membrane, cytoplasm, and a nucleus.
What are plant and animal cells?
300
The number is six.
How many Kingdoms are there?
300
I am a plant that grows cones that have seeds; I am an evergreen.
What is a conifer?
300
What is the largest group of invertebrates. Give two characteristics of these animals. Give a name of one animal from this group.
Arthropods. They have jointed legs, and a hard outer skin called and exoskeleton. Insects, Spiders, Shrimps,and Crabs are all Arthropods.
300
What are instincts, how do instincts help animals, and give an example of an instinct?
Instincts are behaviors that organisms inherit from their parents. Animals have instincts to help them live. One example of an instinct is duckings are born with the instinct to follow their mother. This helps the duckings stay protected and get food.
400
This is an instrument that makes things look larger than they are help with the study of cells.
What is a microscope?
400
The kingdom of living things gets its food from other living and non living things and lives on land is called?
What is fungi?
400
Which 2 statements are true? A. Ferns and mosses make seeds. B. Ferns and mosses make tiny cells called spores. C. A spore gets it food in dry sunny places. D. Both seeds and spores can grow into new plants.
B. Ferns and mosses make tiny cells called spores. D. Both seeds and spores can grow into new plants.
400
Compare and contrast the life cycle of a Burmese Python and a snail.
Both mate and lay eggs. The snail leaves and the Python stays until the eggs hatch. When the eggs hatch both young are on their own. The Python lives longer than the snail.
400
What is hibernation, where do animals that hibernate get their energy, animals usually hibernate during what type of weather?
Hibernation is when animals slow down their body functions and spend their time sleeping. Animals that hibernate get their energy from stored body fat. Animals hibernate when the outside weather turns cold.
500
Which two statements are true? A. All cells look the same and have the same job. B. All cells have a cell wall. C. Cells that look alike can have different jobs. D. Plant cells have a cell wall.
C. Cells that look alike can have different jobs. D. Plant cells have a cell wall.
500
What are the first and second part of an organism's scientific name?
The first part is genus; the second part is species.
500
1. Name one way seeds and spores are alike. 2. Name two ways that seeds and spores are different.
Alike- seeds and spores are different sizes and shapes. Different- Seeds are many celled and spores are one celled. Spores are found under the leaves of ferns and seeds are found on flowering plants.
500
Name the five groups of vertebrates.
Fish, Amphibians, Birds, Mammals, Reptiles
500
Explain the difference between instinct and learned behaviors.
Instincts are behaviors that are inherited (animals are born know these behaviors). Learned behaviors are behaviors that are taught to animals by their parents. Ducklings instinctively follow their mother for food and protection. An example of learned behavior is a sparrows song. Sparrows know what their song sounds like, but they need to learn to sing the song from its parents.