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17 Cards in this Set
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Trees make their own food for energy and are called |
Autotrophs |
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An organism that becomes larger and more complex is showing what characteristic or living things? |
Grow and develop |
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What characteristic is shown when a plant goes into dormancy during the winter |
Respond to stimuli |
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Why are animals considered hetotrophs? |
They obtain energy by consuming food |
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What type of reproduction-one parent produces offspring identical to the original parent |
Asexual |
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What is the order of classification from broadest to most specific? |
Kingdom,phylum,class,order,family,genus,and species |
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What is the scientific name for wolf? |
Canis lupis |
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What classification group contains organisms that are able to breed and produce young of the same kind? |
Species |
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Which characteristic of living things is demonstrated:a rabbit becoming perfectly still when it hears a sound |
Respond to stimuli |
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A frog goes through metamorphism to become a frog,this makes it what kind of animal? |
An amphibian |
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An animal with a backbone is a |
Vertabrate |
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A bat,an elephant,and a weasel have what in common that allows them to be classified in the same group? |
Fur or hair |
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What happens to a cold blooded animal as the temperature drops? |
They slow down |
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Some snakes will gather by the hundreds and coil together in a huge ball.what would be the benefit of this behavior? |
It prevents heat loss |
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If a snake is laying on top of moist soil and becomes too hot once the sun rises,what might it do? |
Burrow into the soil |
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What is the difference between endothermic and ectothermic animals! |
Ectothermic is cold blooded and endothermic is warm blooded |
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In order to maintain a constant body temperature,what do endothermic animals do more often than ectothermic? |
Eat |
