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Heredity or Environment
Plants
Animals and Senses
Adaptations
100
Processes by which characteristics pass from parents to offspring
What is Heredity
100
A characteristic such as type and color of body coloring, type and shape of sensory organs, or body structure
What is an inherited trait?
100
This part of a plant feeds the embryo until the plant can make its own food.
What is the seed?
100
These are groups of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
What is an invertebrate?
100
Special structures that allow plants and animals to adapt to their environments.
What are adaptations?
200
A growth produces in which an animal goes through major changes in body form over the course of the life cycle.
What is Metamorphosis
200
The shape of leaves, color of flowers, or type of fruit.
What are characteristics that plants inherit?
200
Ferns and Mosses reproduce from these.
What are spores?
200
Animals use these to detect signals in their environments.
What are senses?
200
This plant has a root structure that spreads out close to the surface for living in dry habitats.
What is a cactus?
300
All the stages an organism goes through
What is a Life Cycle
300
Traits that do not change an organism into another kind of organism. For example, temperature, nutrition, and disease.
What are environmental characteristics or traits
300
When a plant has roots, stems, leaves and can also reproduce.
What is a mature or adult plant?
300
These animals do not have a backbone. Some have a hard outer covering or a shell. Examples include insects, crabs, or clams.
What are invertebrates?
300
These adaptations include quills, fangs, or warning stripes in skunks.
What are adaptations for defense/protection?
400
An animal life cycle that includes egg, young, and adult.
What is the stage of development of a reptile, amphibian, or bird?
400
Temperature changes may cause this in animal fur.
What causes animal fur to thicken?
400
What a seed does once it has perfect growing conditions like warmth and moisture.
What is germinate?
400
Butterflies and other insects grow through this type of development.
What is metamorphosis?
400
A monkey swinging with its tail, a squirrel climbing with its claws, a bird flying with its wings.
What are some structures for locomotion?
500
A pattern of growth and development that includes seed, seedling, and mature plant
What is the life cycle of a flowering plant?
500
blue or brown eyes, black or blond hair, tall or short
What kinds of traits are inherited?
500
This is what happens when wind or insects make the sperm and egg of a plant meet.
What is pollination?
500
Bats use this to adapt to their environment.
What is echolocation?
500
A color or pattern that allows an animal to blend into its environment and be protected from being seen.
What is camouflage?