Vocabulary
Define camouflage. Give an example of an animal that camouflages.
Helps some animals blend into their surroundings which helps animals to hide from their predators.
Examples: chameleons, geckos, crab spider, filefish, arctic fox
An animal's life starts out as an _____. Describe how it is developed.
Egg.
Egg develops inside the mother and she gives birth to a live young. Or, mother lays eff outside her body and they hatch.
What do nearly all animals need to survive?
Nearly all animals need water, oxygen, food and shelter to live.
Name one animal and explain how it protects itself from danger.
Answers vary.
In the textbook there is a fossil cast of a dinosaur skull. What does it look like in todays day?
A modern day crocodile.
Define trait
Body features that are passed on to an animal from its parents.
Describe what happens when a caterpillar is a larva.
Larva must eat a lot to survive.
It grows.
It sheds its skin several times.
It spins a covering around itself and a chrysalis forms.
Are there more vertebrates animals or more invertebrates animals?
More invertebrate animals.
What are 2 things some animals do when the seasons change and why?
They migrate for warmer weather or to find food to survive the winter.
They hibernate and don't need much food to survive.
What do fossils tell us?
How animals and the Earth have changed over time, the kinds of animals that lived long ago.
Define adaptation. Give an example.
A trait that helps an animal meet its needs in the place where it lives.
Example: Answers vary.
What would happen to a frog's eggs if they hatched on land?
Tadpoles could not use their gills to breathe and would die.
Name 2 ways to group animals.
Animals can be grouped by how they look, how they act, where they live, or animals without or without backbones.
What are 2 ways an animal acquires a behaviour?
By instinct it is born with and, in many cases, by learning.
What happens when habitats change?
Only plants and animals that are adapted to the new habitats survive.
Define mimicry. Give an example.
Other animals have colours or markings that copy those of a more dangerous animal.
Examples: hover fly, butterfly (viceroy), king snake
Name the butterfly's life cycle.
Egg, larva, pupa, butterfly (adult butterflies lay eggs).
Sea jellies
Worms
Mollusks
Anthropods
How does it help a non-poisonous king snake to look like the deadly coral snake?
Animals that eat snakes may think the king snake is poisonous and avoid it.
How is a fossil cast different from a fossil mold?
A cast is a fossil mold that has been filled with rock materials over time.
Fossil mold is a space in the shape of an animal in rock.
Define instinct. Give an example.
Example: animal's response to hunger, instinct to migrate, hibernate
What are the 5 groups of vertebrate animals?
fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
Name 2 ways animals protect themselves (use the vocabulary we learned). Give examples of how they protect themselves.
camouflage
armor
mimicry
poison
Describe 4 kinds of fossils.
Mold
Cast
Amber
Tar pits