Vocabulary
Both breathing rate and body temperature change during _________________.
hibernation
Speaking is a ______________.
learned behavior
Which detail relates to learned behavior?
A.) A mother feeds her baby.
B.) A fish swims in a pond.
C.) You yawn.
D.) A kitten watches its mother hunt.
D.) A kitten who is watching its mother hunt is learning how to hunt.
How could your observations of a goldfish's behavior help you plan how to train it?
You can see its original behavior and decide how you would like for it to behave differently.
What is Ms. Locke's favorite color?
pink
The development of a thick beak for grinding seeds is an ____________.
adaptation
When you see a flock of geese fly south in the fall, you are watching a ____________.
migration
Which statement compares the camels of long ago with camels of today?
A.) Camels that live in Africa have hooves.
B.) Skeletons of camels of long ago are similar to those of camels today.
C.) Ancient camels ate grass.
D.) The bones of ancient camels are fossils.
B.) Comparing the skeletons of camels from long ago to those of camels today help us look at the similarities and differences.
What tool would you use for a model of a beak of a bird that eats seeds? A plier or tweezers?
Pliers - it needs to be strong enough to mash the seeds up to eat them.
True or False? - An example of an inherited trait is having brown eyes.
True
Behaviors that you begin life with are ___________.
instincts
An imprint of an ancient fern in rock is a type of ________.
Why don't you see any ground squirrels in winter?
A.) They are migrating.
B.) They don't like the cold.
C.) They are hiding.
D.) The are hibernating.
D.) They are hibernating -- it's cold!
Why do you think caribou grow hair on the bottom of each foot in winter and lose it in the summer? Hint: they live in an icy terrain.
The hair helps keep the caribou from slipping on its icy terrain. In the summer, when the ice melts, they don't need it anymore.
What is the difference between a vertebrate and an invertebrate?
A vertebrate has a backbone, and an invertebrate does not.
Air and water are ______________.
basic needs
True or False? - An example of a learned behavior is a spider learning to spin a web.
False: Spiders are born knowing how to spin a web, so that is actually an instinct.
What can you learn by studying the fossils of an organism?
A.) How long it lived.
B.) How well-adapted it was.
C.) Its color.
D.) How it compares with modern-day organisms.
D.) We can compare and contrast the animals from long ago to the animals that live today.
Suppose you want to help safe a bird that is threatened with extinction. What things should you study about its habitat? Please name at least one.
Amount of water available, materials and places available to build nests, number of local predators, amount of nearby food, places to hide from predators, etc.
What is the difference between plants that are vascular and nonvascular?
A vascular plant has tubes, a nonvascular plant does not.
When all the members of a species have died out completely, the result is called __________________.
extinction
True or False? - Mammoths are extinct.
True: There are no mammoths left on the planet.
What will probably happen to a tiger that isn't raised with other tigers?
A.) It will become friendly.
B.) It will never learn to hunt.
C.) It will live longer.
D.) It will lose its instincts.
B.) It will never learn to hunt because it cannot learn from other tigers.
Suppose you want to help save a bird that is threatened with extinction. Why would it be a good idea to find out if the birds are laying eggs and how many chicks are hatching?
This would give a better idea how long the species might live for.
There are two things that a plant cell has and an animal cell does not. Name one.
A cell wall and chloroplast.