Plant Parts
This plant part absorbs water from the ground and holds the plant in place.
What are roots?
Which of the following is not a need of an animal?
Sunlight
Food
Oxygen
Space
Daily Double: Briefly explain why an animals needs these things.
Sunlight- only plants need sunlight to make energy
Animals need food to grow and stay healthy. They need oxygen to breathe. They need space so they can hunt for food and to build homes.
Where does photosynthesis take place?
leaves
A trait is a quality or a characteristic of a living thing. Living things have multiple traits; however, each trait can fall into one of two categories __________ and ____________.
What are inherited and acquired traits?
The _____________ is the part of the plant that carries food and water throughout the plant.
What is the stem?
A porcupine has sharp quils. How does this structure help the animal survive?
The sharp quills of the porcupine help protect it from predators.
Daily Double: Photosynthesis is the process that turns sunlight, cardon dioxide, and water into ______.
sugar
What is the job of the leaves of a plant?
The leaves take in sunlight and oxygen to make food for the plant.
Camouflage, Migration, or Mimicry?
A tiger has stripes to help it blend into its environment.
What is camouflage?
The three things that must be present in order for photosynthesis to occur are:
1.
2.
3.
What are water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight?
1. height
2. tattoo
3. crying
4. skin color
A. A bird using its long skinny beak to get insects from inside a log.
B. A tadpole becoming a frog.
C. A lizard cooling off under a rock when it was too hot from the sunlight.
D. A fish using its gills to breathe.
C. A lizard cooling off under a rock when it was too hot from the sunlight.
Which of the following is not a part of a plant?
A: Seed
B: Beak
C: Flower
D: Cone
DAILY DOUBLE: How does the fruit help with plant reproduction?
Beak
Daily Double: The fruit protects the seed(s).
Camouflage, Migration, or Mimicry?
A stickbug looks like a small twig of a tree.
What is mimicry?
What gas is created during photosynthesis?
oxygen
A. birth mark, hair color, attached ear lobes
B. speaking english, scar, a flamingo's pink color
C. writing in cursive, breathing, dyed hair
B. speaking english, scar, a flamingo's pink color
Birds like ducks and geese have _______ feet for swimming, birds like hawks have _________ feet to help them capture their prey, and birds like flamingos have _______ feet for walking in deeper water and seeing food from a higher viewpoint.
Birds like ducks and geese have WEBBED feet for swimming, birds like hawks have RAPTOR feet to help them capture their prey, and birds like flamingos have WADING feet for walking in deeper water and seeing food from a higher viewpoint.
What kind of food is made in the leaves of a plant?
Sugar
Camouflage, Migration, or Mimicry?
Monarch butterflies will fly south to Mexico before winter.
What is migration?
Why is the process of photosynthesis only important for plants and not animals?
Plants, or producers, must make their own food for energy.
Animals, or consumers, must intake their food to receive energy.
A. weight
B. reading
C. fingernail length
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2.
3.
4.
5.
Daily Double: What is the only category that has live young and nurse their young when born?
Daily Double: Mammals