Vocab
What something can do
Function
An animal that is hunted and eaten by another animal
Prey
Pupil
Lets in the light
What doe Tokay Geckos use to find their food?
Eyes/Vision
This animal has eyes as big as dinner plates
Jumbo Squid
Information that supports the answer to a question
Evidence
TO cause light to bounce off of material
Reflect
Respond or react to the light being let in
Light receptor
Where do the Tokay Geckos live?
The Rainforest
What is it called when an animal is most active during the day?
Diurnal
How strongly something responds to something else
Sensitive/Sensitivity
Something that can change in an investigation
Variable
Send information from light to the brain
Optic Nerve
When are the tokay geckos most active?
At night
What kind of light receptors does a Tarsier have
High sensitivity
A description of how something works or why something happens
Explanation
How an animal gets information from its environment
Sense
Brain
Forms an image and compares it to its memories
What kind of light receptors do the tokay geckos have?
High sensitivity
Name one animal that we read about that can see more colors than humans
Macaw or Damselfish
The way something is shaped or what it is made out of that makes it good for a specific function
Structure
To use any of the five senses to gather information
Observe
Retina
Where the light receptors are found
What animal was compared to the tokay gecko in an investigation that we read about?
Emerald tree skink/skink
How many eyes does a starfish have?
At least one on each arm (5 or more)