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classification
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What criteria?
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Define classify
Classify means to arrange things into groups by their similarities
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An animal runs and hides from danger. This is an example of how an animal...
responds...( to an external stimulus)
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Legs, wings, arms, fins are all of these.
What is an appendage?
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Define taxonomist. What does a taxonomist do?
A scientist who names and organizes living things according to a classification system.
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You and I both have fins. What criteria is used to show do we have in common?
We have appendages so the criteria is our body plan.
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Give an example of something a fish and a whale's body plan has in common.
Fins
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What does it mean to acquire materials?
Acquiring materials means finding food, oxygen, water or any material needed to survive.
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What are four protective environments in which organisms develop?
Egg, womb, nest, and pouch.
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Define body plan.
Body plan is the overall shape and layout of an organism's body.
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We both run and hide from danger. We are scared. What criteria is used to show what we have in common?
How we respond is the criteria.
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What criteria is used when describing how bacteria split in half to form new organisms?
Reproducing
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What is an internal stimulus? Give an example.
An internal stimulus is anything that causes an organism to respond from within its own body. I feel hunger and I get food.
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Define omnivore. Give an example.
An omnivore is an organism that eats both plants and meat. Example: bear, pigs, badgers, hedgehogs, opossums, skunks, squirrels, raccoons, chipmunks, mice, rats, chimpanzees and of course, people
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Why do organism's that live in the same habitat often have similar characteristics?
They are designed to meet the same needs and challenges in their habitat.
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Bacteria and amoebas split in half to form new organisms. What criteria is used to show what they have in common?
The criteria is how they reproduce.
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What does habitat mean? Give an example of a camel and a scorpion's habitat.
A habitat is where an animal lives, finds its food and shelter. A camel and scorpion both live in the desert.
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What is bilateral symmetry?
A body plan in which the right side and the left halves of the body mirror each other. example: dog, cat, cow, etc. People,too.
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Define biotic and abiotic factors.
Biotic factors are the living parts of a habitat. example: trees, plants, animals Abiotic factors are all the non living parts of a habitat. example: rocks, sand, gravel, water, oxygen, wind
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Why have people throughout history tried to classify living things?
People want to identify and understand living things and reveal the order of God's creation.
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Two organisms are both designed to live in the hot dry desert. What criteria is used to show what we have in common?
Habitat or body plan!
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Describe what a snake's and a worm's body plan has in common.
They both have no appendages.
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What is an example of an external stimulus? Give an example.
Anything that causes an organism to respond from outside an organism's body. example: danger bell whistle alarm
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Define vertebrate and invertebrate. Give an example of each.
A vertebrate is an animal with a backbone. example: all mammals such as dogs, cats, wolves, lions, deer, squirrels, guinea pigs, etc. An invertebrate is an animal without a backbone. example: all insects such as ants, bees, wasps, termites, flies grasshoppers,beetles, butterflies, moths, spiders, scorpions, worms, lobster, crabs, barnacles, shrimp, jellyfish, etc.
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Why do different people classify organisms in different ways?
People classify things based on their own beliefs, purposes, and criteria which are not always the same as everyone else.
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Two organisms can both live in the freezing Arctic climate of the North Pole. What criteria is used to show what they have in common.
Habitat or body plan