Classification
This feature helps scientists determine if an organism is a vertebrate or invertebrate.
What is having a backbone?
This type of trait is passed from parents to offspring.
a. Acquired
b. Learned
c. Inherited
d. Behaviors
c. Inherited
This plant is most closely related to an orange.
What is an apple?
Name a type of learned behavior:
Riding a bike, singing, playing a game, eating with a fork, going to the bathroom, etc.
What is the function of the nucleus?
It is the control center of the cell. It tells the other organelles what to do.
This type of organism has a backbone.
What is a vertebrate?
Tony’s dog barking and sniffing other dogs is an example of this type of trait.
What is an inherited behavior?
Evergreen needles are most similar to this plant part.
What are leaves?
Pete the Panda learned to play soccer after watching his friends play outside. His brothers and sisters do not know how to play soccer. Is playing soccer a learned behavior or an instinct?
What is a learned behvior?
Name the 5 types of vertebate
Mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish
What is it called when an animal uses its surroundings to regulate its body temperature?
What is exothermic (cold-blooded)?
Shelly the fish lives in a fish tank with other fish. Shelly and the fish swim around the tank without bumping into each other. Shelly's owner begins to lift the top of the fish tank and all of the fish swim to the surface to wait for their fish flakes. What question can be asked to find out which characteristic of Shelly and her fish friends is a learned behavior?
a. Do all the fish have stripes?
b. Are all the fish friends?
c. How do the fish not bump into each other?
d. How do the fish know when it is time to eat (feeding time)?
d. How do the fish know when it is time to eat (feeding time)?
A pine cone is most similar to this plant structure because of its function.
What is a flower?
Jay Z and Beyonce are having a baby. Jay Z is tall with short hair, and he loves to rap. Beyonce is tall with blonde hair, freckles, and brown eyes and loves to sing. They both love Jamaican food and learned how to speak French. What are 4 characteristics that their baby could inherit?
What is brown eyes, freckles, blonde hair, height.
What is the difference between flowering plants and non-flowering plants?
Flowering plants produce flowers, non-flowering plants produce cones or spores.
Birds are classified as this type of animal based on how they regulate body temperature.
What is endothermic (warm-blooded)?
Lucy's mom and dad are tall, have brown eyes, and black hair. Her parents both love hot wings and video games. Which 3 questions can be asked to learn about Lucy's inherited traits?
a. How tall is Lucy
b. What color is Lucy's hair?
c. Does Lucy love video games?
d. What color are Lucy's eyes?
e. Does Lucy like hot wings?
What is A,B,D?
This part of the plant changes sunlight into energy.
a. The stem
b. The roots
c. The flower
d. The leaves
What are leaves?
This is something animals do that is not inherited but learned from experience.
What is learned behavior?
Ms. Smith loves snacks. One day she brought trail mix with her lunch. Is her trail mix a mixture or solution.
A mixture because she can separate each different item in the trail mix.
These two plants belong to the same group because they reproduce using spores.
What are ferns and mosses?
When are inherited traits passed to an organism?
a. After it is born
b. When it grows up and gets older
c. Before it is born
c. Before it is born
What 3 things must a plant have to be considered vascular?
What are true roots, stem, leaves?
Scars on a cow’s ears are an example of this type of trait.
What is an acquired trait?
Lily wants to know if earthworm like to live in the light or in the dark. She puts earthworms in a box with dirt and covers half of the box and leaves them in there for a week.
What would Lily do next to figure out if earthworms like to live in the dark or the light?
Count the number of earthworms on both sides