Vocabulary
Butterfly Life Cycle
Butterfly Observations
Variations of Traits
Plants/Animals
100
What is a feature of a living thing that is passed down from parents to offspring.
A trait
100
Which is the first stage of the butterfly life cycle?
egg
100
Where do butterflies often lay their eggs?
on a leave the larva will eat
100
Why do different offspring from the same parents look different?
Offspring my inherit different traits from each parent.
100
Why do some animals change color?
An animal may change color to camouflage to protect itself.
200
What is the offspring of an organism?
The next generation of that organism
200
What is the 4th stage of the butterfly life cycle?
Adult Butterfly
200
Why were parts of the butterfly larva exoskeleton that we observed in class left behind in the cups?
As they grow, the larva shed their exoskeleton.
200
Which variation of peppered moths would be more likely to survive in a dark forest and why?
The dark winged peppered moths because they blend in better with their environment.
200
What is the first stage of a plant life cycle?
Germination/Seed
300
What is the name of the waste produced by insect larva?
frass
300
Which is the second stage of the butterfly life cycle?
larva stage
300
Why do butterflies look so different from larva?
They undergo a metamorphosis
300
A nest of baby alligators hatched and were all female. What probably happened?
The nest was between 82 degrees and 86 degrees.
300
Is a plant an organism? Explain why or why not.
A plant is an organism because it is a living thing.
400
A butterfly life cycle is considered metamorphosis because the insect changes so much from start to finish.
A grasshopper goes through “incomplete
metamorphosis”. What is an incomplete metamorphosis.
It doesn’t change much after the egg stage!
400
Which is the 3rd stage of the butterfly life cycle?
pupa
400
When you observed the butterfly larvae, why was it important to measure them daily?
They grow so quickly that we had to measure daily. This helped us collect accurate data.
400
If having long wings is better for bats to catch prey, do you think scientists would see more long-winged bats, or less of them? Why?
Scientists would see more of them since that trait helps them survive.
400
The environment can influence traits. What is an example of a plant variation based on the environment.
Different colored petals based on the Ph of the soil.
500
What is the name of the red liquid butterflies excrete that is made up of waste material that is produced during the pupal stage?
meconium
500
What is the name of the stage in the butterfly’s life cycle when it is a caterpillar?
pupa
500
The viceroy butterfly looks exactly like the poisonous Monarch butterfly, but the viceroy is not poisonous. Why do you think it looks exactly like the monarch?
It looks like the Monarch so that predators don’t eat it (since the Monarch is poisonous).
500
How does humans illegally hunting large tusked elephants cause change a trait variation of elephants?
Illegal hunting is killing all large-tusked elephants.Now, there are less elephants with large tusks living so they can’t produce large-tusked offspring.
500
Describe what the life cycle of any insect or animal is like.
Answers should describe different stages in the life of that organism.
Egg or baby
Growing up or changing into a new stage
Adult
Reproduction
Death