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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 1: What are Cells Why are cells considered the building blocks of living things? |
All living things are made up of one or more cells.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 1: What are Cells What are cells? |
Cells are the basic units of structure and function in a living thing
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 1: What are Cells What functions must a cell be able to carry out? Why? |
Cells must be able to carry out all the activities needed to stay alive because cells are living things.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 1: What are Cells What is a cell? |
the basic unit of structure and function in a living thing.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 1: What are Cells What type of materials do you think the cell membrane allows to enter the cell? |
materials the cell needs, such as food and water
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 1: What are Cells What types of materials leave the cell through the cell membrane? |
wastes
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 1: What are Cells What parts are common to all cells? |
cell membrane and cytoplasm
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 1: What are Cells What are parts found only in animal cells? |
nucleus, mitochondria, vacuoles
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 1: What are Cells What are some ways that cells differ from each other? |
size, shape, and the parts they contain
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 1: What are Cells How do the outermost parts of plan and animal cells differ? |
The outermost part of a plant cell is the cell wall; the outermost part of an animal cell is the cell membrane.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 1: What are Cells Besides having a cell wall, what are two other ways a plant cell differs from an animal cell? |
Plant cells have chloroplasts and usually have fewer and larger vacuoles than animal cells.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 1: What are Cells What cell parts are found in plant cells, but not in animal cells? |
cell walls and chloroplasts
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 1: What are Cells What are microoganisms? |
Living things that are too small to be seen without in microscope.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 1: What are Cells What are specialized cells? |
cells that have features to do a specific job
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 1: What are Cells For what types of jobs are some cells specialized? |
movement, getting food, digesting food
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 1: What are Cells Why are cells called the building blocks of living things? |
All living things are made up of one or more cells.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 1: What are Cells How are chloroplasts important to plant cells? |
Chloroplasts contain chlorophyll, which is needed by plants to make food.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 1: What are Cells What cell part controls all of a cell's activities? |
the nuclueus
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 2: What are Animals? What is a simple animals? |
an animal with a body made up of only a few types of cells
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 2: What are Animals? How many cell layers make up the body of a sponge? |
two
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 2: What are Animals? What are some examples of simple animals? |
sponges and worms
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 2: What are Animals? What are vertebrates? |
aniamls with backbone and have an internal skeleton made of bone and cartilage,
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 2: What are Animals? Give examples of animals are vertebrates. |
birds, snakes, bats and humans
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 2: What are Animals? What are invertebrates? |
animals that do not have a backbone; an outer covering, such as a shell usually spports the body of an invertebrate.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 2: What are Animals? What are arthropods? |
the largest group of invertebrates. Arthropods are animals, such as ants, siders, and crabs, that have legs with several joints.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 2: What are Animals? What is one way of grouping animals? |
by structures that support their bodies
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 1: What are Cells Give examples of arthropods? |
beetles, spiders, ants, centipedes
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 2: What are Animals? Give examples of invertebrates. |
beetles, spiders, ants, and centipedes
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 2: What are Animals? Why are bats considered vertebrates? |
They have a backbone and an internal skeleton.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 2: What are Animals? Why are bats considered mammals? |
They are vertebrates, have fur covering their bodies, give birth to live young, and nurse their young with milk made by the mother.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 2: What are Animals? What type of body does a sponge have? |
bag-type
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 2: What are Animals? What is the main difference btween a simple animal and a complex animal? |
A simple animal has many cells but few body parts. A complex animal has many body parts
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 2: What are Animals? What are arthropods? |
Arthropods are invertebrates that have jointed legs and are supported by an external skeleton.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 3: Plants with Seeds What is inside a seed? |
a young plant (embryo) and food
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 3: Plants with Seeds What is an embroyo? |
a young plant
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 3: Plants with Seeds In what plant parts are seeds found? |
in cones or fruits
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 3: Plants with Seeds What kinds of plants form seeds? |
cone-bearing plants and flowering plants
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 3: Plants with Seeds Where do the seeds of a pine tree form? |
The seeds of a pine tree form between the scales of its cones.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 3: Plants with Seeds Where is the seed in a peach located? |
The seed of a peach is located inside the pit.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 3: Plants with Seeds Where is the seed of a rose located? |
contained in a plant part called the rose hip
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 3: Plants with Seeds What is a seed? |
A seed is a plant part from which a new plant can grow.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 3: Plants with Seeds What kinds of plants form seeds? |
cone-bearing plants and flowering plants
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 3: Plants with Seeds What are three examples of cone-bearing plants? |
pines, firs, redwood, cycads, junipers, and spruces
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 3: Plants with Seeds How are the seeds of cone-bearing plants and flowering plants different? |
Cone-bearning plants produce unprotected seeds. Flowering plants produce seeds that are protected by a fruit.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 3: Plants with Seeds What is the main job of a fruit? |
protect the seeds inside
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 4: What are Fungi? Why were fungi once classified as plants? |
Fungi often grow in soil and their cells have cell walls
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 4: What are Fungi? What important characteristic makes fungi different from plants? |
Unlike plants, fungi cannot make their own food.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 4: What are Fungi? How do fungi obtain food? |
They absorb it from other living things or from dead things.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 4: What are Fungi? How do the cells of fungi differ fromt he cells of plants or animals? |
The cells of fungi may have more than one nucleus.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 4: What are Fungi? What are fungi? |
single-celled or many-celled living things that cannot make their own food
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 4: What are Fungi? What are hyphae? |
Hyphae are densely packed, threadlike fungus parts
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 4: What are Fungi? How are fungi similar to plants and animals? |
Like plants, fungal cells have a cell wall.
Like animals, fungi cannot make their own food |
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 4: What are Fungi? How are fungi different to plants and animals? |
differ from these groups in that they may be single-celled or multi-celled, and their cells may have more than one nucleus
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 4: What are Fungi? How is a spore similar to a seed? |
Like a seed, a sproe is a reproductive cell.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 4: What are Fungi? What is a lichen? |
A lichen is a living thing formed by a fungus and an alga that live together and depend on each other for life?
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 4: What are Fungi? What is a fungal spore? |
a cell from which a new fungus can grow
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 4: What are Fungi? Where do the spores of a mushroom form? |
in the gills
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 4: What are Fungi? How do most fungi get their food? |
by absorbing food from other living things or from dead things
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Lesson 4: What are Fungi? How do fungi feeding on dead plants help a pond or a forest? |
by helping to clear away dead things from the forest
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review A common type of fungi that look cottony or woolly are called ---. |
molds
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review The long threadlike parts that make up the body of a fungus are ---. |
hyphae
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review The part of a plant cell that provides support to a plant is the ---. |
cell wall
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review An animal with a backbone is a ---. |
vertebrate
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review The young plant inside a seed is called an ---. |
embryo
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review The basic unit structure of all living things is the ---. |
cell
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review A snail is an example of an ---, or an animal without a backbone. |
invertebrate
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review Most of the inside of a cell is taken up by ---. |
cytoplasm
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review A yeast is an example of a --- because it is made of only one cell. |
microorganism
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review An insect is an example of an invertebrate that is also an ---. |
arthropod
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review The --- is the control center of a cell. |
nucleus
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review Flowering plants produce seeds that are protected by a ---. |
fruit
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review The outermost part of an animal cell is the ---. |
cell membrane
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review The green plant-cell part used in food-making is the ---. |
chloroplast
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review Like those of plants, the cells of --- are enclosed by a cell wall. |
fungi
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review A --- contains reproductie parts of a fruit-bearing plant. |
flower
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review The cell part that allows material into and out of a cell is the ---. |
cell membrane
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review A small cell that can grow into a new fungus is called a ---. |
spore
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A World of Living Things:
What are Plants with Seeds? Unit A Chapter 1 Review What type of body type does a sponge have? |
bag-type
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review What type of body type does a worm have? |
tube-type
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review What type of body type does a snail have? |
complex type
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review Why can't fungi make their own food? |
their cells have no chloroplasts
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review Give an example of a microorganism. |
paramecium
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review Give an example of a cone-bearing plant. |
pines, cycads and firs
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review All fruit-bearing plans make seeds in ---. |
flowers
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review The part of a cell that stores waste or materials that the cell needs is the ---. |
vacuole
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review Give an example of a microorganism with many cells. |
rotifer
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review One reason that water is important to life is that the --- is made mostly of water. |
cytoplasm
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review If you were looking at cells from an onion stem and from a mushroom under a microscope, how could you tell which cells came from which living thing? |
The cells of the onion would each have one nucleus, a cell wall, and chloroplasts. The cells of the mushroom could have more than one nucleus, would have cell walls, and would not have any chloroplasts.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review What are three characteristics that fungi share with animals? |
Fungi cannot make their own food, their cells do not have chloroplasts, and some are made up of many cells.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review Both bats and insects have legs with joints. Why is a bat not clasfied as an arthropod? |
A bat has a backbone and is therefore a vertebrate. Arthropods are invertebrates.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review Observe the plant cfell shown on page A8 and the cells of the mushroom shown on page A26. How do the cells compare? |
Both cells have cell walls and cytoplasm. the mushroom cells have more than one nucleus per cell, but the plant cell has only one nucleus per cell. The plant cell has chloroplasts it uses to make food. The mushroom cells do not have chloroplasts.
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Unit A: Living Things
Chapter 1: Living Things Review You observe several new mushrooms in a yard the day after a rainstorm. What are two things you might infer based on this observation? |
The spores of this mushroom type need a lot of moisture to grow; these mushrooms grow only in grassy areas.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *What are the Basic Needs of Animals? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 What makes up an animal's environment? |
The environment is everything that surrounds and affects the animal, including livng and nonliving things.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *What are the Basic Needs of Animals? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 What are examples of living and nonliving things in an environment? |
plants, other animals, rocks, soil, air, and water
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *What are the Basic Needs of Animals? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 What are some basic needs all animals have? |
the needs for food, water, and a place to live
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *What are the Basic Needs of Animals? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 Do all animals meet their basic needs inthe same way? Explain your ideas. |
No; animals that live in different environments may meet thier basic needs in different ways.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *What are the Basic Needs of Animals? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 How are the climates of a desert and a tropical rain forest alike? How are they different? |
Both have warm climates. Both provide animals with what they need to live. The tropical rain forest has a wet climate. The desert is dry.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *What are the Basic Needs of Animals? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 Where do fish get the oxygen they need? |
directly from the water that passes over their gills
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *What are the Basic Needs of Animals? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 Define: climate. |
the average temperature and rainfall of an area over many years
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *What are the Basic Needs of Animals? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 What is oxygen? |
one of the many gases in the air
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations How Animals Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 What are three basic needs of animals? |
food, water, and shelter
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations How Animals Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 Why do animals need food? |
to get the energy they need to live and grow
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations How Animals Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 Why do animals need water? |
to replace the water they lose from their bodies
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations How Animals Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 What are examples of shelters found in the natural environment? |
hollow trees, rocks, logs and leaves
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations How Animals Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 Where do animals get the water they need? |
Most drink from ponds lakes, streams, and puddles. Others get mosture from the food they eat or from the body processes.
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations How Animals Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 Define: shelter |
a place where an animal is protected from other animals or from the weather
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations How Animals Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 Why would an animals that has only a few young take care of them for months after birth? |
It must care for its young to help them live and maintain the species.
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations How Animals Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 Define: metamorphosis. |
The process of change; for example, from an egg to an adult butterfly
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations How Animals Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 How do butterflies reproduce and develop? |
They lay eggs. The eggs hatch and develop into caterpillars. The caterpillars shed their outer skins several times. They slowly change inside a chrysalis and then break out as butterflies.
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations How Animals Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 What pattern do you see in metamorphosis? |
It is almost like the creatures have two distinct lives. In each stage their appearance is different and they meet their needs in different ways.
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations How Animals Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 How do reptiles reproduce and develop? |
Most lay eggs. The eggs hatch, and the young are much like the adult.
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations How Animals Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 How do mammals reproduce and develop? |
Mammals give birth to their young and most care for them for a period of time.
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations How Animals Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 Whay would an animal that has only a few young take care of them for months after birth? |
It must care for its young to help them live and maintain the species.
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations How Animals Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 What is an environment? |
An environment is everyting that surrounds and affects an animal, indclucing livng and nonliving lthings.
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations How Animals Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 What five basic needs do animals have? |
Animals need the right climate, oxygen, food, water, and shelter
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations How Animals Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 1 Why do animals produce young? |
Animals produce young to continue their species.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Body Parts Help Them Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 2 How does having a thick, heavy beak help a bird eat seeds? |
A bird with a thick, heavy beak can easily crush the hard outer covering of a seed to get the food inside.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Body Parts Help Them Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 2 Define: adaptation |
a body part or behavior that helps an animal meet its needs in its environment
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Body Parts Help Them Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 2 How do strong claws help a hawk meet its need for food? |
Strong claws make it wasy for the hawk to catch and carry its prey.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Body Parts Help Them Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 2 What are three different kinds of body coverings? |
feathers, fur or hair, and scales
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Body Parts Help Them Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 2 You know that a bird's feathers are an adaptation that help birds fly. How are the body coverings of other kinds of animals an adaptation to help the animals survive? |
Fur or hair protects a mammals's skin and helps keep the animal warm. Scales help protect a fish from other animals. A retile's scales protect it from dangers in the environment.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Body Parts Help Them Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 2 Why would a puffed-up fish scare away predators? |
If the prey looks larger, it might scare away a smaller predator.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Body Parts Help Them Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 2 Would the spines on a porcupine fish discourage predators? Why? |
Yes; if the spines were sharp, they might scare predators.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Body Parts Help Them Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 2 Why would clear hair make it easier for the light to reach the polar bears' skin? |
Clear hair allows the light to pass right through it.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Body Parts Help Them Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 2 How do scales prevent the loss of water from an iguana's body? |
Sclaes form a watertight container for the iguana, similar to a plastic container or a self-sealing plastic bag for foods.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Body Parts Help Them Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 2 Why would having hair make it harder for a dolphin to glide through the water? |
The hair would make the dolphin's body surface rougher and would make it drag through the water.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Body Parts Help Them Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 2 What do the hedgehog and the porcupine fish have in common? |
They both make a ball shape with spines when they are threatened.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Body Parts Help Them Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 2 How does camouflage help an animal survive? |
Camouflage is an animal's ability to blend in with its surroundings. Blending in with the surroundings makes it more difficult for an animal's enemies to find it.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Body Parts Help Them Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 2 How does mimcry help an animal survive? |
An animal may survive by mimicking another animl that has a protective adaptation. Birds don't eat monarch butterflies because of their bitter taste. Viceroys look so much like monarchs thta birds leave them alone, too.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Body Parts Help Them Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 2 How is a viceroy butterfly a mimic? |
It looks like a bad-tasting monarch butterfly.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help Them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 List at least 3 bird adaptations. |
General adaptations may include beaks, feathers, talons, hollow bones, and large eyes.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Body Parts Help Them Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 2 How are mimicry and camouflage different? How are they alike? |
Mimicry is an adaptation in which one animl looks very much like another animal. Camouflage is an adaptation that enables an animl to use color to blend in with its surroundings.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Body Parts Help Them Meet Their Needs Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 2 What adaptation would best help a hawk catch a mouse? |
talons
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*A World of Living Things:
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 What instinct do monarch butterflies hve? |
the behavior of flying south for the winter
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*A World of Living Things:
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 Define: instinct. |
a behavior that an animal begins life with
Instincts are adaptations that help animals meet their needs. |
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*A World of Living Things:
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 What is migration? |
is the movement of a group of one type of animal from one region to another and back again. It is a behavioral adaptation.
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*A World of Living Things:
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 Name some animals that migrate. |
monarch butterflies, Atlantic green turtles, gray whales, salmon, and many birds
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*A World of Living Things:
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 How do gray whales and Pacific salmon know where to go? |
instinct
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*A World of Living Things:
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 Where and why do gray whales migarte? |
between the Arctic Ocean and Mexico; to find food more easily and to give birth to young, or reproduce
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*A World of Living Things:
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 Where and why do Pacific salmon migrate? |
They travel from the rivers and stream where they hatch to the ocean, where they can live. To produce young, each salmon returns to the river or stream in which it hatched.
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*A World of Living Things:
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 What might an animal do if there is a lack of food? |
migratate to a region with more food
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*A World of Living Things:
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 What might an animal do if the temperature is too cold? |
migrate to a warmer climate or hibernate to lower body temperature
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*A World of Living Things:
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 What might an animal do if there is a reduced food supply? |
hibernate to reduce the need for food
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*A World of Living Things:
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 Define: hibernation |
a period when an animal goes into a long, deep "sleep".
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*A World of Living Things:
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 What conditions change during winter to cause animals to develop adaptations? |
The temperature is colder, and there is less food available.
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*A World of Living Things:
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 How are a hibernating animal's needs different from its normal needs? |
It needs little or no food.
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*A World of Living Things:
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 What two bodily changes occur to reduce the animal's requirements for food during hibernation? |
Both body temperature and heart rate decrease.
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*A World of Living Things:
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 How does an animal's body change during hibernation? |
An animal's body temperture drops, and its heartbeat rate and breathing rate fall. It requires less energy.
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*A World of Living Things:
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 What are two things animals must do before they can successfly hibernate? |
eat extra food and find or make a shelter
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*A World of Living Things:
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 What skill must a tiger cub learn to be able to survive? |
A tiger cub must learn to hunt
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help Them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 How are a cub's hunting skills learned? |
by watching its mother hunt and by playing with other tiger cubs
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help Them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 What behaviors does a chimpanzee learn? |
To communicate with sounds, to build a leafy nest, and to use a stone to crack open a nut
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help Them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 How is an instinct different from a learned behavior? |
A learned behavior is one that an animal develops by watching or hearing other animals. An instinct is a behavior that an animal is born with. Hunting is a learned behaviaor among tigers. Hibernating among bears is an instinct.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help Them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 What is migration? |
Migration is the movement of a group of one type of animal from one region to another.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help Them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 How does migration help an animal meet its needs. |
It helps to ensure that the animals will live in a region that provides for their basic needs.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help Them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 What is hibernation? |
Hibernation is a period during which an animal goes into a long, deep sleep.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help Them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 How does hibernation help an animal meet its needs? |
Hibernation protects an animal from cold temperatures and reduce food supplies durng the winter.
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*Living Things
*Animal Growth and Adaptations *How Do Animals' Behaviors Help Them Meet Their Needs? Unit A Chapter 2 Lesson 3 An animal's body temperature drops for a long period when it is ---. |
hibernating.
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 2 Review The body changes that a butterfly goes through as it grows from an egg into an adult are called ---. |
metamorphosis
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 2 Review An adaptation in which an animal looks like another animals is ---. |
mimicry
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 2 Review A place such as a burrow where an animal can protect itself is a ---. |
shelter
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 2 Review A body part or behavior that enables an animal to meet its needs is called an ---. |
adaptation
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 2 Review The average temperature and rainfall of an area over a long time make up its ---. |
climate
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 2 Review --- enables an animal to blend in with its surroundingings. |
Camouflage
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 2 Review A period when an animal goes into a long, deep sleep is called ---. |
hibernation
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 2 Review A behavior such as migration that an animal does not have to learn is an ---. |
instinct
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 2 Review The movement of a group of one type of an animal from one region to another is ---. |
migration
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 2 Review Everything that surrounds and affects an animal is its ---. |
environment
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 2 Review Some animals meet their need for --- by breathing. |
oxygen
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 2 Review Behaviors that help animals get their basic needs. |
learned behaviors and instincts
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 2 Review Animals leaving in the correct climate will get the what four needs meet. |
oxygen, shelter, food, water
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 2 Review Ways that animals hide in order to hide from attack. |
mimicry and camouflage
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 2 Review When a winter storm is coming, animals often look for ---. |
shelter
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 2 Review A bird's hollow bones help the bird --- more easily. |
fly
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 2 Review When preparing to hibernate, animals must ---. |
eat extra food
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 2 Review Rabbits have large ears. Infer how this adaptation helps rabbits meet their needs. |
Large ears allow a rabbit to hear a predator more easily. They could be especially helpful when the rabbit is lying low and can still hear a predator approaching.
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A World of Living Things:
Animal Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 2 Review Because humans can think, they can adapt to new environments by making things or changing behaviors. Describe how your life would change if you moved to a place where the climate was very differnt from where you live now. |
different type of shllter and different clothing.
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 What does air contain for plants? |
carbon dioxide
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 What is in soil that plants need? |
nutrients (minerals)
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 How is water taken in by plants? |
Some water is taken in through leaves, but most water is taken in through a plant's roots.
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 How is carbon dioxide taken in and oxygen given off by a plant? |
through tiny holes on the undersides of leaves
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 What traps energy from sunlight? |
chlorophyll in leaves
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 How is water taken in and moved through a plant to its leaves? |
Roots take in water and stems carry water to the leaves.
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 What four things do plants need to live? |
air, nutrients, water, and light
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 What does a plant need to carry out photosynthesis? |
light carbon dioxide, chlorophyll, and water
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 What are the 4 steps of photosynthesis |
1. Carbon dioxide and water are used with other nutrients to make sugar.
2. Energy starts the food-making process 3. Carbon dioxide and water are used with other nutrients to make sugar 4. Oxygen is given off. |
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 What is the waste product of photosynthesis? |
oxygen
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 What is made suring photosynthesis? |
sugar (food for the plant)
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 What is photosynthesis? |
a plant makes its own food by a process that is called photosynthesis
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 How do waterlilies captue sunlight? |
They have flat pads that float on the surface of water.
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 What adaptation do vines have? |
long stems to reach sunlight
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 What adaptation do cacti have to collect rainwater? |
Their roots grow near thesurface
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 How are waterlilies and vines similar? |
They both have long stems.
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 How is the cactus stem adapted for dry climates? |
It is thick to store water.
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 How do stems that are adapted for climbing help vines meet their needs? |
Because vines often grow where there is dim light, stems that are adapted for climbing help the leaves reach the sunlight they need to make food.
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 What are the four things that plants need to live? |
air, water, soil, and sunlight
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 What provides the energy for photosynthesis to take place? |
sunlight
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 What adaptations do cacti have for life in the desert? |
The roots grow near the surfce to collect water, and the thick stems hold water for the plant to use during dry periods.
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 What would happen if there were no carbon dioxide in the air? |
Photosynthesis could not take place. Plants could not make food, could not give off oxygen, and would die. Animals would die withoutthe food and oxygen that plants provide.
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations What Do Plants Need to Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 1 What are the two main types of leaves? |
needles and broad leaves
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*A World of Living Things:
*Plant Growth and Adaptations *How Do Leaves, Stems, and Roots Help Plants Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 2 What characteristic of plants determines whether a plant lives one season or more seasons? |
the type of stem
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*A World of Living Things:
*Plant Growth and Adaptations *How Do Leaves, Stems, and Roots Help Plants Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 2 What do roots do to help plants survive? |
take in water and nutrients and hold plants in soil; some store food made by leaves
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*A World of Living Things:
*Plant Growth and Adaptations *How Do Leaves, Stems, and Roots Help Plants Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 2 What is transpiration? |
the giving off of water by plant parts
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*A World of Living Things:
*Plant Growth and Adaptations *How Do Leaves, Stems, and Roots Help Plants Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 2 What does it mean that a plant is in a state of dormancy? |
Trees enter dormancy, a lower actiy, until spring because there is less daylight for photosynthesis.
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*A World of Living Things:
*Plant Growth and Adaptations *How Do Leaves, Stems, and Roots Help Plants Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 2 What are taproots? |
a root that deeply penetrates soil. It is like a spike that can be easily driven or "tapped" into the soil
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*A World of Living Things:
*Plant Growth and Adaptations *How Do Leaves, Stems, and Roots Help Plants Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 2 What are fibrous roots? |
root that are near the surface of the ground
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*A World of Living Things:
*Plant Growth and Adaptations *How Do Leaves, Stems, and Roots Help Plants Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 2 Cacti have roots that are close to the surface of the soil. Which type of roots are they? |
fibrous roots
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*A World of Living Things:
*Plant Growth and Adaptations *How Do Leaves, Stems, and Roots Help Plants Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 2 Which type of plant usually grows for only one season? |
plant with soft and fexible stems
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*A World of Living Things:
*Plant Growth and Adaptations *How Do Leaves, Stems, and Roots Help Plants Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 2 How do adaptations for trapping insects help some plants meet their needs? |
They help plants get nutrients that are missing from poor soil.
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*A World of Living Things:
*Plant Growth and Adaptations *How Do Leaves, Stems, and Roots Help Plants Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 2 What are the two types of leaves? What is one unusal leaf adaptation? |
Needles and broad leaves; some plants have have leaves that trap and digest insects
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*A World of Living Things:
*Plant Growth and Adaptations *How Do Leaves, Stems, and Roots Help Plants Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 2 What is the main difference between the two types of stems? |
Some stems are soft and flexible. Others are woody and hard.
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*A World of Living Things:
*Plant Growth and Adaptations *How Do Leaves, Stems, and Roots Help Plants Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 2 Which parts of roots take in nutrients for a plant? |
root hairs
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*A World of Living Things:
*Plant Growth and Adaptations *How Do Leaves, Stems, and Roots Help Plants Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 2 Moisture from leaves is produced by transpiration. Why can you use the presence of moisture as evidence that a plant is exchanging gases, or "breathing"? |
Gas exchange (breathing) and transpiration happen at the same time. The presence of moisture means both transpiration and "breathing" occur. If the leaf's holes are blocked, neither happens; and since there is no moisture, the leaf dies.
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*A World of Living Things:
*Plant Growth and Adaptations *How Do Leaves, Stems, and Roots Help Plants Live? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 2 An insect is to a meat-eating plant as a --- is to a human. |
vitamin pill
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 What is the first part of a flowering plant's life cycle? |
seeds
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 In what ways do seeds form? |
Stamen makes pollen that is collected by pistil, which forms the seed.
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 Where do spores form on ferns? |
capsules or small cases
on the back of the leaves |
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 What are two ways plants reproduce? |
seed and spores
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 What kind of plant reproduces from spores on the back of its leaves? |
a fern
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 What type of climate probably speeds up a plant's life cycle? |
a warm, moist climate
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 What do most seeds need to begin to grow? |
air, water, and warmth
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 Define: germinate |
sprout
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 What is the biggest difference between seeds and spores? |
the tiny plants that grow after spores germinate are not complete
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 What is the stamen? |
The stamen is the stalk-like part in the center of the flower. It comes from a Latin word that means "to stand".
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 What is the pistil? |
The pistil workds with the stamen to help the flower reproduce. It is the central structure of the flower surrounded by the stamens, the petals, and the sepals (petals at the base of a flower).
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 What is pollination? |
Pollination happens when pollen is carried from a stamen to a pistil by wind or animals.
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 What adaptation do spider plants have for reproduction? |
They have buds that grow on runners. The buds are immature plant shoots.
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 Which two plant adaptations can be split into pieces to grow new plants? |
bulbs, such as tulips, and tubers, such as potatoes
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 By what means can some plants stems be used to make new plants? |
Some stems can grow roots if left in water. Stems can also be grafted to the stem or roots of another plant.
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 What must both seeds and spores do before they begin to grow in soil? |
germinate
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 How do animals help pollinate plants? |
Because pollen often sticks to animals' bodies, they bring it with them to the pistil of the next plant
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 Spider plants, tulips, and potatoes can grow from seeds. How are their other ways of reproducing alide? |
They can all make new plants from plant parts such as buds, bulbs, and tubers.
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 If you had a leafy plant with damaged roots, how might you start a new plant? |
by putting cuttings into water; by grafting
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 Which part of a flowering plant protects seed? |
fruit
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Living Things
Plant Growth and Adaptations How Do Plants Reproduce? Unit A Chapter 3 Lesson 3 What process ends with a "new and improved" plant? |
grafting
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 3 Review Water loss from a plant due to evaporation is ---. |
transpiration
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 3 Review Carrots have a ---, a single main root that grows deep into the soil. |
taproot
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 3 Review "Sprout" is another word for ---. |
germinate
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 3 Review Animals breathe out a gas called ---. |
carbon dioxide
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 3 Review A substance a plant needs in order to grow is a ---. |
nutrient
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 3 Review The way a plant makes food is ---. |
photosynthesis
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 3 Review The way a plant makes food is ---. |
fibrous roots
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 3 Review Potatoes have a swollen underground stem called a ---. |
tuber
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 3 Review Tiny reproductive cells of ferns are ---. |
spores
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 3 Review The part of a flower where seeds form is the ---. |
stamen
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 3 Review Pollen is made by the --- of a flower. |
pistil
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 3 Review When broad-leafed trees shed all their leaves in the fall, they are entering a period of ---. |
dormancy
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 3 Review The movement of pollen to the pistil of a flower is called ---. |
pollination.
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 3 Review A plant with a thick stem for storing water would probably grow in the ---. |
desert
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 3 Review Transpiration by plants could help form ---. |
rain clouds
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 3 Review A seed eaten by a bird may --- far from where it was eaten. |
germinate
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 3 Review What process can end with a "new and improved" plant? |
grafting
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 3 Review Why is photosynthesis one of the most important processes on Earth? |
It provides the oxygen that animals, including humans, need to live. Plants also use photosynthesis to make food that other living things eat.
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A World of Living Things:
Plant Growth and Adaptations Unit A Chapter 3 Review The fact that plants have many ways to spread seeds can cuase problems for gardeners. Why is this? |
Seeds of unwanted plants such as weeds can easily get into garden areas.
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 What are organs made up of? |
different tissues that work together
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 What are the basic building blocks of the body? |
cells
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 What is formed when cells of the same types work together? |
tissue
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 What do groups of tissues form? |
organs
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 What forms bone tissues? |
bone cells
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 What system is made up of the bones of the body? |
skeletal system
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 What is another name for the backbone? |
spinal column
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 What are the two main muscles of the upper leg? |
quadriceps and hamstring
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 Which type of muscles helps control organs within the body? |
smooth muscles
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 What do bones do for organs inside your body? |
protect them
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 Define: tissue |
is like the "fabric" of cells, much as a piece of cloth is made up of individulal threads
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 Define: organ |
body parts that do certain jobs for the body. Example: heart, liver, kidneys
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 What are cardiac muscles? |
the heart has special muscle cells that act as leaders. These cells contact and relax, causing surrounding cells to do the same.
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 What are smooth muscles? |
organs that rely on smooth muscles to function, scuh as the stomach, intestines, blood vessels, and bladder.
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 What forms the stripes of striated muscle? |
the working parts of the muscle cells
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 How does smooth muscle work? |
by squeezing and relaxing slowly and smoothly
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 What is unique about cardiac muscle? |
It squeezes and relaxes without stopping or ever getting tired.
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 Which two muscles are used to raise and lower the forearm? |
biceps and triceps
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 Which muscle shortens to pull the forearm up? |
biceps
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 What are the basic building blocks of life? |
cells
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 How do the skeletal muscular systems work to move the body? |
Muscles are attached to bones at joints. The muscles work in pairs. When one muscle of a pair gets shorter, the other gets longer.
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 Which type of muscle works without ever stopping? |
cardiac muscles
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 Why is it good that people don't have to think about smooth muscles doing their jobs? |
to stay alive, a person would hae to think all the time about the many jobs smooth muscles do.
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 --- move bones in differnt directions |
muscle pairs
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Skeletal and Muscular Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 1 Which type of muscle doesn't have stripes? |
smooth muscles
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Respiratory & Circulatory Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 2 What path does oxygen take to reach the lungs? |
It goes from the nose or mouth through the trachae to the lungs.
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Respiratory & Circulatory Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 2 What is the job of the circulatory system? |
to take blood to all parts of the body
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Respiratory & Circulatory Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 2 What are the main organs of the respiratory system? |
the lungs
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Respiratory & Circulatory Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Define: heart |
the muscle that pumps blood through your blood vessels to all parts of your body
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Respiratory & Circulatory Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Define: arteries |
Blood leaves the heart through blood vessels
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Respiratory & Circulatory Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Where are capillaries found? |
throughout the body and provide a way for gases, nutrients, and wastes to pass between the blood and cells
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Respiratory & Circulatory Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 2 What is the job of veins? |
return blood full of carbon dioxide from all body parts. The blood returned to the heart from the lungs is rich in oxygen
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Respiratory & Circulatory Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Which part of the circulatory system pumps blood to all body parts? |
the heart
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Respiratory & Circulatory Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Why doesn't blood leaving the heart mix with blood entering the heart? |
Blood leaves the heart through arteries and returns to the heart through veins
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Respiratory & Circulatory Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Where is the heart located? |
behind the lungs
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Respiratory & Circulatory Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 2 What connects the heart to each of the lungs? |
blood vessels -- arteries and veins
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Respiratory & Circulatory Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 2 What do you suppose the small blood vessels on the outside of the heart do? |
They supply the heart with oxygen-rich blood and remove carbon dioxide.
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Respiratory & Circulatory Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 2 What makes blood follow a one-way path through the heart? |
Valves allow flow in only on direction
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Respiratory & Circulatory Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Why is it easy for gases to pass between air sacs and blood? |
Air sacs have very thin walls.
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Respiratory & Circulatory Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Which blood vessels take blood away from the heart? |
arteries
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Respiratory & Circulatory Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 2 Which blood vessels in the lungs help your body take in and gie off gases? |
capillaries
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Respiratory & Circulatory Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 2 What do you think would happen if blood entering the heart mixed with blood leaving the heart? |
Blood carrying oxygen would mix with blood carrying carbon dioxide. The body might not get all the oxygen it needed.
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Respiratory & Circulatory Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 2 What is a waste product of cells? |
carbon dioxide
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 What is the control center of the nervous system? |
the brain
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 What parts deliver information to and from the brain? |
nerves
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 When a person is swinging a bat, what body parts receive the message to swing? |
muscles of the arms
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 What are the main senses and muscles used to throw a ball? |
Sight is the main sense used, and the muscles of the back, shoulders, and throwing arm are the main muscles used.
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 What two organs of both systems run parallel to one another from the head? |
spinal cord and esophagus
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 Define: brain |
the control center of your nervous system
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 Define: neurons |
nerve cells
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 Define: nerves |
groups of neurons, that pass along information
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 Define: spinal cord |
a tube of nerves that runs through your spin, or backbone
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 What is the control center of the nervous system? |
the brain
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 What parts deliver information to and from the brain? |
nerves
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 When a person is swinging a bat, what body parts receive the message to swing? |
muscles of the arms
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 What are the main senses and muscles used to throw a ball? |
Sight is the main sense used, and the muscles of the back, shoulders, and throwing arm are the main muscles used.
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 What two organs of both systems run parallel to one another from the head? |
spinal cord and esophagus
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 Which body part tells a batter whether or not to swing at a ball? |
the brain
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 Name the parts of the Nervous System. |
brain, spinal cord, nerves
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 Name the parts of the Digestive System. |
esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 Where does digestion begin? |
in the mouth
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 What is the main function of the stomach? |
to make food into a liquid
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 In which organ is most food broken down? |
small intestine
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 What is removed from food by the large intestine? |
water
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 What part of the digestive system does the most to digest food? |
the small intestine
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 How does the brain connect with other parts of the body? |
The sense organs in the head connect directly with the brain. Other parts of the body connect with the brain through the spinal cord and nerves.
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 What gives information to the brain? |
sense organs and nevers in the body
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 Where does digeston begin? |
in the mouth
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 Why would not chewing food enough make it harder for the digestive system to do its job? |
The rest of the digestive system has to work harder to break food into small pieces.
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Nervous & Digestive Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Lesson 3 Which part of the digestive system makes food mostly liquid? |
stomach
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Review Two long tubes of muscle that lead from the stomach and help absorb food are the --- and the ---. |
small intestine, and large intestine
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Review Your --- is a bag made up of muscles that churns food. |
stomach
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Review Three main parts of your nervous systems are the ---, ---, and ---. |
brain, spinal cord, nerves
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Review From your heart, blood first flows away through --- to the body, then through ---, and back to the heart through ---. |
arteries, capillaries, veins
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Review Your --- is the organ that pumps blood. |
heart
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Review The --- are the main organs of the repiratory system. |
lungs
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Review The cells that form nerves are ---. |
neurons
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Review A group of cells of the same types is a ---. |
tissue
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Review The --- connects your mouth to your stomach. |
esophagus
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Review An --- is made up of differnt tissues that work together to do a certain job in the body. |
organ
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Review The three types of muscles in your body are ---, or heart muscle; ---: and ---. |
cardiac, striated muscle, smooth muscle
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Review What are three types of muscules? |
smooth and skeletal (striated)
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Review Leg muscles that you use when you lift a box are ---. |
striated muscles
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Review The brain is --- that is part of your nervous system. |
an organ
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Review When you exercise, your body needs more ---, so you breathe faster. |
oxygen
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Review When blood passes through ---, it exchanges oxygen and carbon dioxide. |
capillaries
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Review Which body system tells you when to reach for and catch a falling book? |
nervous
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Review Why isn't the heart made up of smooth muscles like other organs inside your body? |
It needs a special kind of muscle that never stops working.
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A World of Living Things:
Human Body Systems Unit A Chapter 4 Review Which body system would smoking cigarettes affect most direcly? Explain. |
The respiratory system; smoke would get in the lungs. The lungs could become damaged.
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