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Vocab
Environment
Adaptation
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Animal Research
100
What is survival?
To stay alive
100
Which environment is aquatic and covers more than half the earth?
Oceans
100
True or False: Do all organisms need to adapt?
True! Adaptions means they can survive in their environment!
100
What is the vocab word for a baby plant waiting to grow?
Embryo.
100
What is one adaptation a lizard has to survive?
Camouflage. Tail breaks off and grows back. Tongue.
200
Define adaptation
a structure or behavior that helps an organism survive
200
Which environment is made up of plains and prairies? There are few big trees and small bushes.
Grasslands.
200
Describe an adaptation for movement.
Wings, fins, legs, etc.
200
What 2 forms of energy does the Earth get from the sun?
Light and Heat
200
What is one adaptation the cheetah has?
Spots, tail, speed, etc.
300
What is camouflage?
An organism's ability to blend and hide in its environment
300
What is the difference between a desert environment and a tundra environment?
Both are harsh environments, a desert is hot and a tundra is cold.
300
Describe an adaptation for getting food.
Frogs' sticky tongues. Birds' beaks. Butterfly's proboscis.
300
What does H2O mean? What is O2?
Water & Oxygen
300
What is one adaption an owl has? How does it help the owl survive?
Behavior: Hunts at night so it has good night vision.
400
What is an environment?
Where an organism lives.
400
Describe a forest environment and the type of plants AND animals that live there.
Forests have big trees, mountains, snow in the winter and warm in the summer. Bears hares, owls, deer live there. They can eat berries, grass, or other animals.
400
Describe how a crayfish can survive in a wetland environment. Talk about the plants and animals in this environment. What adaptations helps the crayfish survive in this environment?
Wetlands are ponds, lakes, and streams. Crayfish eat emall insects and plants that grow in the ponds. They can hide under the rocks and plants.
400
What is the one most important thing a seed needs to grow?
Water
400
The lynx has tufts of fur on the top of its ears. Is this a structure or behavior adaptation?
Structure because it is a physical characteristic, something we can LOOK at.
500
Explain the difference between behaviors and structures.
A behavior is how an organism acts and what it does. For example, an orca lives in a pod. A structure is a physical characteristic. For example, an orca has 4 in' teeth!
500
Describe a wetland environment. Weather? Plants? Animals?
Ponds and lakes. Moderate temperature (no snow, rainfall). Cottonwood and cat tails. Fish, crayfish, ducks, geese, insects.
500
Give three examples of adaptations for protection. (For example, a shell protects a turtle because....)
Answers will vary. Camouflage, poison, spines, etc.
500
Draw and explain the stages of the plant life cycle.
Seed, Germinate, Seedling, Root, Stem, Leaves, Flower, Fruit
500
Is this an observation or an inference and Explain: I notice the monkey hollers when danger is near by so the sound it makes must mean "DANGER! Get in the tree everybody."
An inference. You use your observations and your schema to come up with a conclusion. You can't ask the monkey if that's what his hollers means, but you can infer based on evidence.