A tuna is an ocean fish that is well adapted to catching small, fast-moving prey. Which of the following adaptations most helps a tuna swim fast to catch its prey?
A. large fins
B. sharp teeth
C. small gills
D. tough scales
What is large fins?
100
Owen tested a physical property of a mineral. He rubbed a mineral sample on a piece of white tile. The mineral left a red mark on the tile. He was trying to determine this property of minerals.
What is streak?
100
What object will absorb the least amount of light?
a. white
b. black
white.
100
What is physical adaptation?
Give an example.
an adaptation of an organism's body part , coloring, or anything about the structure of the animal
200
A material that allows electricity to travel through it.
What kind of material is a good conductor?
What is conductor?
Anything Metal.
200
Which of the following best represents
one particular stage in a life cycle?
A. a fish swimming
B. a seed sprouting
C. a leaf growing
D. a dog eating
What is B
200
Which of the following happens only during the adult stage of the life cycle of a frog?
A. A frog lays eggs
B. A frog swims in the water
C. A frog begins to lose its tail
D. A frog begins to develop lungs.
A
200
The diagram below names three of the four stages in the life cycle of a butterfly.
egg.... ____________ .... pupa .... adult
What is larva
200
What is behavioral adaptation?
Give an example.
the behaviors or the things that organisms do to survive
300
A student hears the sound of a bell. This carries the sound of the bell to the student.
What is vibrating air?
300
Term for how plants use energy from sunlight.
What is photosynthesis? (when the make their own food)
300
Which of the following describes an instinctive behavior?
A. a behavior that occurs only in adult fish
B. a behavior that occurs only in small mammals
C. a behavior that an animal learns how to do over time
D. a behavior that an animal is born knowing how to do
For an extra 100 points... explain what learned behavior is.
What is D
300
Judy observed a new moon in the sky on a Tuesday evening. She will need to wait this many days until she sees the next new moon.
What is 28 days?
300
What is stimuli
anything that causes a living thing to respond to its environment
400
Term for when a liquid changes to a solid.
What is freezing?
400
Many bacteria and mushrooms are decomposer
organisms. The reason why they connect the food chain.
How are they different from producers?
What is the return the nutrients back into the soil in order to help the plants grow?
Producers make their own food from the sun.
400
A student is growing a flowering plant next to a lamp in a dark room. Explain how the plant most likely grows in response to the light from the lamp?
Because of phototropism the flowers and leaves will face the light
400
1. The reason why we have different seasons on Earth.
2. The reason why we have day and night.
What is Earth revolves around the sun?
What is the Earth rotates on its own axis?
400
Amphibians
What are some features of amphibians?
How is it different from a reptile?
Amphibians are animals that have gills when they are born so they can breathe in water and then they grow lungs. Reptiles are not born with gills in water.
500
Term for what happens when you put two like poles near one another.
Give an example of two poles that might do this
What is repel?
North/North or South/South
500
A trait or characteristic that an organism inherits from its parents.
Give one example of an inherited trait
Give one example of an environmental factor?
What is an inherited trait?
The color of your skin is an inherited trait
The way that hair is cut or the condition of a plant.
500
Some types of trees are able to survive the heat of a forest re. Which of the following characteristics would best help a tree survive are?
A. large leaves
B. shallow roots
C. thick bark
D. thin trunks
What is C?
500
During the fall, changes in the environment in Massachusetts cause many animals and plants to prepare for the coming winter season.
a. Describe two change in the environment in Massachusetts during the fall that cause animals to prepare for the winter.
b. Identify one way that animals in Massachusetts prepare to survive the winter. Explain how this helps the animals to survive the winter.
c. Identify one way that plants in Massachusetts prepare to survive the winter. Explain how this helps the animals to survive the winter.
500
What is photosynthesis
the process by which green plants and use sunlight, air, and water to make their own sugar or food