Vocabulary
What is the definition of appearance?
How a thing looks.
___________ - Is the process that a plant goes though to make its own food.
Photosynthesis!
Which of the following animals could not be in the same classification as the others?
Whales
Frogs
Eagles
or Otters
Eagles. They do not live in water.
What is the correct vocabulary word for this definition?
___________ - When something blends in with its
surroundings, making it hard to see.
Camouflage!
What are the five parts of a plant?
Roots, stems, leaves, flower, and seeds.
What does it mean to classify something?
To put it in a group with other things with similar characteristics.
For example: We can group cacti, camels, and Joshua trees together because they all live in desert climates.
Name a special structure of a desert plant and its purpose!
Answers will vary.
Example: Cacti have needles to keep predators away so that they can store water in their stems.
Name a structure of an animal and tell about its purpose!
Answers will vary.
Example: Howler monkeys have prehensile tails that help them hang from branches to reach the ripest fruit.
What is the definition of transpiration?
When leaves release water in order to keep the plant cool.
What are the three ways we can classify plants and animals?
By their structures, habitat, and appearance.
What are adaptations?
Special features that help living things survive in their environment.
What is germination?
The processby which a seed sprouts and starts growing.
All animal structures have one of three purposes. What are the three purposes?
To find food, protect itself, or move in a certain way.
What is the difference between internal and external structures?
Internal structures are structures that are on the inside of animals or plants (such as a pitcher plants digestive juices) and the external structures are what can be seen from the outside such as a turtles shell.
The ability of some animals such as birds and turtles to sense and respond to Earth's magnetic field is called ________________
Magnetoreception
What is a habitat? Give three general examples.
Examples: Ocean, desert, forests, wetlands, etc.
What is the correct vocabulary word that matches this definition?
_____________ - when plant roots grow toward water sources.
Hydrotropism!
What is the animal that I am describing?
I am scaly so that I have a hard exterior.
I have a very long and strong tail that helps propel me in water quickly.
I have very sharp teeth in order to rip prey.
I have nostrils and eyes on the top of my head so that I can breathe and see from the top of the water.
I am one of the oldest predators still on the planet.
Alligator/Crocodile!
What does it mean when I say that a tree is dormant?
When it stops photosynthesizing for the winter to conserve energy.
How can we define living things?
Things that can breathe, move on their own, reproduce, and need to eat and drink.
DAILY TRIPLE
What is the difference between biotic and abiotic?
Biotic describes living things and abiotic describes non-living things
What is phototropism?
When a plant grows towards light. (Like the plant in the hallway toward the gym!)
______________________ is how animals emit calls out to the environment and listen to the echoes of those calls when they bounce off various objects near them.
Echolocation.
What is the difference between camouflage and mimicry?
Camouflage is when something blends in to its SURROUNDINGS and mimicry is when it is IMITATING something in order to look like it.
In insects the UV receptors are located in their
Compound eyes