Heredity
Every living thing has ____?
Traits
What is a producer?
Living things that make their own food. Example, trees, plants
What are the two classifications of plants?
vascular and non vasuclar
What are the 5 classification/categories of vertebrates?
mammals, reptiles, fish, birds, amphibians
How do hummingbirds know when to fly south to Mexico for the winter?
inherited behavior- instincts
Give an example of an inherited trait
curly/straight hair, detached earlobes, dimples, brown hair/eyes
What is a consumer?
Eat other living things for energy example: animals
What does vascular mean?
plants that have tubes (they are typically the high or tall plants) examples: trees, grass, flowers, cacti, and bushes
What's the characteristics of a mammal?
give live birth, produce milk, warm-blooded, and has fur/hair
Give an example of an instinctive trait/ inherited behavior
do drools seeing food, bears hibernate in the winter, birds build a nest, turtles lay eggs
What is a decomposer?
Breakdown of remains of living organisms to feed on them. Example: mushrooms
What does nonvascular mean
plants without tubes. Nonvascular typically doesn't have roots. Example: moss, algae
What's the characteristics of a bird, give an example? What's the characteristics of an amphibian-- give one example of an amphibian.
Birds: lays eggs, has feathers, warm-blooded, most can fly, but some cannot. Example: Eagle, Falcon, Hummingbird
Amphibians: Example, frogs. cold-blooded, lives in water breaths through gills when they are young. Lives on land when they are adults and breaths through lungs.
What is an example of a learned behavior?
learning to cook, read, sew, throw a baseball
Animals that have a backbone
Vertebrate
What is a gymnosperm?
nonflowering plant that do no produce fruits or flowers. example: pine trees (reproduce through cones)
What's the characteristic of a fish?
What are inherited traits?
a physical characteristic that is passed down by parents to their babies or offspring
Animals that don't have a backbone?
invertebrate
What is an angiosperm?
flowering plants who have their seeds enclosed. Example: flowers, fruits, and veggies
How are angiosperms and gymnosperms different from one another?
angiosperms are flowering plants like flowers, fruits, and veggies. Their seeds are enclosed. Gymnosperms are not flowering, but reproduce using cones. Their seeds are exposed.