What is a characteristic of the reproduction of most fish and amphibians?
They lay their eggs in water.
100
Instead of backbones, crabs and insects have...
Exoskeletons
100
Plants are usually split into two different groups. What are those 2 groups?
Flowering and non-flowering plants
100
Young small plants that have not reached the adult stage are called...
Seedlings.
200
What are the 5 main characteristics of a fish?
Breath with gills getting oxygen from the water, have scales, have fins, cold blooded, lay eggs.
200
All birds and mammals are _______.
warm-blooded
200
What most likely identifies an animal as a bird and NOT as any other animal?
A bird has feathers!
200
What part of the plant brings in water and minerals?
The roots.
200
A flowering plant begins its life cycle as what?
A seed.
300
Describe a reptile's eggs?
LEATHERY- shelled eggs
300
Seeds are created from flowers in flowering plants. Conifer plants produce what to hold their seeds for reproduction?
Cones
300
What does cold blooded mean?
BONUS- What is another word for cold blooded.
Cold-blooded means that the body of an animal does not produce its own heat so it is not able to maintain a constant body temperature. Their body temperature is the same as the temperature of the wai or water around them.
BONUS- Ecotothermic
300
What are the 5 basic needs of a plant?
Sunlight, water, air, minerals, and space.
300
In a flowering plants, seeds are created from?
From the flowers.
400
What is an OBSERVABLE characteristic?
An observable characteristic is a characteristic you can see with your eyes.
400
Ferns and Mosses BOTH reporduce by forming _______.
Spores.
400
Which organisms undergo metamorphosis?
A. Grasshopper
B. Frog
C. Butterfly
D. All of the above
B and C- Frog and Butterfly
400
Which plant structure makes most of the plant's food from sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide?
Plants make food in their LEAVES. The leaves contain a pigment called chlorophyll, which colors the leaves green. Chlorophyll can make food the plant can use from carbon dioxide, water, nutrients, and energy from sunlight.
400
When ________, _________, ________, and/or ________ carry pollen from one flower to another, it is called ______________.
When insects, animals, wind, and/or water carre pollen from one flower to another, it is called pollination.
500
What are the 6 main characteristics of a mammal?
Warm blooded, live births, breaths air with lungs, fur or hair coverings, sweat glands, produce milk for the youngs
500
What is the difference between Monotremes, Marsupials, and Placental mammals?
Monotremes:are primitive egg-laying mammals.
Marsupials: their young are born in an extremely immature state. Carry them in a pouch until they are mature enough.
Placental mammals: their young are born at an advanced state
500
Why can't you classify animals based on the ability to fly?
Answers may vary.
500
What is it called when plants make food from sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide?
This process is called photosynthesis.
500
What is germination?
Germination is the process of a seed starting to grow or sprout.