Senses
A mother hen clucks loudly when danger is near and her chicks quickly gather around her. Which sense helps the chicks receive this warning about danger from their mother?
What is a sense of hearing?
Define Competition.
When two animals live in the same area and depend on the same organism for food.
A duck’s feathers are covered with a natural
oil that keeps the duck dry in the water.
What is a special feature, or adaptation which helps the ducks survive better in there environment?
Features of mammals include...
What is to be warm-blooded?
What is to have hair, or furn on one's body?
What is to need milk as a baby?
What is to give birth to live young?
The long neck on the baby giraffe is
_____________________.
What is an inherited trait?
This sense helps a fox find its food at night.
What is seeing in the dark?
When three baby birds are fighting for worms, they are competing for which resource?
What is food?
Every animal needs these three things in order to survive. The better an animal is adapted to it's environment, the more able it is to secure these things.
What is food, water, and air?
An animal which does not have a backbone like a jellyfish, a grasshopper, or a lobster.
What is an invertebrate?
Where a white rabbit be best protected from predators.
What is a snowy white field?
This sense helps vultures find dead animals from very far away.
What is smell?
Certain behaviors like the singing of a bird, and certain physical traits like a birds bright feathers make this species more competitive when looking for this resource.
What is looking for a mate?
When an animal has an adaptation like growing thick fur in the winter it is environment for this reason.
What is a winter adaptation.
An animal like a lizard who has lungs, lays soft sided eggs, and is cold-blooded.
What is a reptile?
Where a male puppy inherits its traits from.
What are both of its parents?
It is because of this sense that humans release serotonin (a feel happy hormone) whenever we hug.
What is touch?
When a brown-headed cowbird leaves her egg in another, smaller birds nest, her chick will eventually out-compete its nest mates. This is because the brown-headed cowbird is better at fighting for this essential resource.
What is food?
An adaptation which allows an animal to blend in to its environment.
What is camouflage?
An animal like a frog, which is born in the water, with gills and then later moves to the land and develops lungs.
What is an amphibian?
An inheritable trait on a human is which of the following:
a scar, long hair, a broken leg, or brown eyes?
What are brown eyes?
This sense tricks our brains into thinking that sweeter and saltier foods are better for us than healthy whole foods like vegetables.
What is taste?
Because animal populations tend to grow larger than their habitats are able to support, resources tend to become scarce. This leads to...
What is competition?
Adaptations like a turtle's shell help turtles to survive in their environment in this way.
What is to defend against predators?
An animal like an ostrich who lays hard-sided eggs and has feathers.
What is a bird?
When a characteristic is taught it is called...
What is a learned behavior?