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Snakes are reptiles. They use their tongues to gather information about scents in the air. This would be most like which human organ?
Since they gather information about scents, it would be most like the nose.
Which group of animals includes humans, dolphins, whales, cats, and elephants?
What is the mammal group?
This group of animals includes insects, worms, and jellyfish. They do NOT have backbones.
What are invertebrates?
This is where plants make their food.
What are the leaves?
This plant part anchors the plant in the ground and absorbs water and nutrients.
What are the roots?
There are tiny hairs on the wings of some butterflies that can sense changes in pressure. This is most like which human organ/part?
Nerves in the skin sense changes in temperature and pressure, so the skin is the organ most like these hairs on the butterfly's wings.
Water and nutrients must be moved throughout the plant. In the human body, blood is pumped throughout the body in a similar fashion. Which human organ pumps the blood?
What is the heart?
Rather than lungs, fish use these to breathe underwater.
What are gills?
Which part of the cactus is most helpful in preventing animals from eating it-the flower, the roots, or the needles?
What are the needles?
The fur on a mammal and the feathers on a bird share this job.
What is providing protection and warmth?
The bark on a tree acts as a protective layer. It keeps moisture in and harmful substances out. This would be most like which human organ/part?
Skin also keeps moisture in and harmful germs, etc. out.
Of a armadillo, a daisy, and a pig, which has the covering that would be most resistant to injury?
The armadillo since it is covered by armor-like, bony plates.
Finn finds a few white shelled eggs on the ground. He determines that they are most likely from one of two animal groups. Which two would be most likely to produce a few white-shelled eggs?
mammals*fish*amphibians*reptiles*birds
What are birds and reptiles?
Ferns and mosses reproduce through the use of __________ that do not have to be fertilized.
What are spores?
The exoskeleton of an insect, the stem of a plant, and the human skeleton share this job.
What is structural support and protection?
Think of the life cycle of the chicken and compare it to the life cycle of a lima bean plant. Which stage of the chicken would be most like the lima bean seed stage-chicken, chick, or egg?
What is the egg? Just like a seed has a baby plant that is waiting to grow, the egg has a baby chicken that is waiting to grow.
Muscles (with the help of bones) allow organisms to ____________.
What is move?
Which two animal groups are warm-blooded?
mammals*fish*birds*reptiles*amphibians
What are birds and mammals?
This is the part of the plant that stores the eggs. It shares a name with the specialized organ in the female body that stores eggs also.
What is the ovary?
The legs and feet of a dog, the wings of a bird, and the tail and fins of a fish all share this job.
What is to help the animal move?
Leaves of a plant take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen. Which organ in the human body also helps with taking in and releasing oxygen and carbon dioxide?
What are the lungs?
Which animal group lives part of its life on land and part in water, has moist skin, and lays many eggs?
What are amphibians?
Which two stages are shared by incomplete and complete metamorphosis?
What are the egg and adult stages?
This part of the plant is where all of the reproductive organs are and where seeds are made.
roots*stem*leaves*flower
What is the flower?
This is the male reproductive part of a flower and produces pollen.
What is the stamen?
Some plant leaves, like those of the mimosa, sense pressure when touched and respond by folding up or closing. Because they can sense pressure, they are most like which human organ?
What is the skin?
Which stage of the plant life cycle is when egg and sperm unites?
What is fertilization?
Cockroaches go through three stages when developing-egg, nymph, and adult. Would this be complete metamorphosis or incomplete metamorphosis?
Two-Part Question
1. What is the sticky female part of the plant that receives pollen?
2. When pollen does move from the stamen to this part, the process is called this.
1. What is the pistil?
2. What is pollination?
It's the job of a seed to start to grow into a plant. What is this process called?
What is germination?