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41 Cards in this Set
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Unit 1: How can organisms be divided into groups? |
Based on their physical characteristics
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Unit 1: How can plants be divided?
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Flowering and Non-Flowering
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Unit 1: How can animals be divided?
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Vertebrate and Invertebrates
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Unit 2: Plants are organisms that are made of many parts and are capable of what?
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Producing their own food
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Unit 2: What is a Flowering plan?
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Makes seeds within their flowers (Some plants enclose their seeds within fruits that animals like to eat. Once animals eat the fruit, they distribute the seeds when they defecate.) |
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Unit 2: Give some examples of Flowering plants.
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Fruit trees (apples, plums), tomatoes or beans.
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Unit 2: What are non-flowering plants?
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Plants that make seeds within cones or produce spores instead of seeds. |
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Unit 2: Give some examples of non-flowering plants?
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Pines, Spruce, Cedar trees produce cones Ferns and mosses produce spores |
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Unit 3: Animals are organisms that can be made of many parts, but cannot what?
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Make their own food
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Unit 3: Animals must get energy from where?
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Eating plants or other animals
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Unit 3: On way to classify animals is?
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If they have a backbone or not
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Unit 3: Vertebrates means what?
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Animals with backbones
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Unit 3: How can vertebrates be further divided?
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Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals
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Unit 3: What are some vertebrates physical characteristics?
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Protective skin covering, an inside skeleton, muscles attached to the bone, lungs or gills for obtaining oxygen from the air.
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Unit 3: Invertebrates are?
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Animals without a backbone
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Unit 3: Give examples of invertebrates with hard shells.
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Insects, crabs, clams
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Unit 3: Give examples of invertebrates with no hard shell or covering.
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Jellyfish, worms, shrimp, crayfish, sponges, sea stars, snails
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Unit 4: Plants have a unique pattern of growth and developmentcalled?
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a life cycle
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Unit 4: Examples of seeded plants include but aren't limited to? |
Conifers, Redwood, Oaks
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Unit 4: Seeds are produced when?
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After pollination (spreading of pollen from flower to flower), may be stored in fruits.
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Unit 4: Seeds contain tiny undeveloped plants and enough food for?
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Growth to start
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Unit 4: What do seeds need to begin to grow (germinate)?
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Water and warmth
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Unit 4: What are seedlings?
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First sprouts from a seed
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Unit 4: What do seedlings produce?
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Parts of the plant that will be needed for the adult plant to survive in its habitat
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Unit 4: The stem starts to grow towards what?
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Light
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Unit 4: The first leaves form where?
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on the stem
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Unit 4: What will form later to help the plant make its own food?
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Leaves
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Unit 4: Mature plants have the same structures (roots, stems, leaves) as seedlings but they also what?
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Are able to reproduce using flowers or cones, which produce seeds.
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Unit 5: Are the stages of growth and development (life cycle) the same for all animals? |
NO |
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Unit 5: Some animals give birth to babies that what? |
Look like small adults |
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Unit 5: As babies grow they change how? |
Size, color, shape or type of covering (example: horses give birth to babies that look like small horses. Chickens lay eggs that hatch babies that look like small chickens) |
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Unit 5: Some animals being as an egg and then undergo changes in their life cycle. What are some of these changes? |
Appearance, color, shape, growth of new bodily structures. The changes are called metamorphosis. |
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Unit 5: What are the beetles stages of metamorphosis? |
Egg, larva, pupa, adult |
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Unit 5: What are the grasshoppers stages of metamorphosis? |
Egg, young (nymph), adult |
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Unit 5: What are the classes of Animals? |
Mammal, Reptile, Amphibian, Insect, Bird, Fish |
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Unit 5: Mammals: Stages of Development Give examples of mammals |
Stages of Development: Young-Adult Examples: dog, squirrel, human, whale (all have live birth) |
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Unit 5: Reptiles:
Stages of Development (2) Give examples of reptiles |
1. Stages of Development: Egg-Young-Adult Examples: snake, turtle, lizard, alligator 2. Stages of Development: Young-Adult Example- Rattlesnake (live birth) |
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Unit 5: Amphibians:
Stages of Development Give examples of amphibians |
Stages of Development: Egg-Young-Adult
Examples: frog, toad, salamander |
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Unit 5: Insect Stages of Development (2) Give examples of Insects |
1.Stages of Development: Egg-Larva-Pupa-Adults Examples: butterfly, beetle, housefly, mosquito 2. Stages of Development: Egg-Young-Adult Example: grasshopper, cockroach, praying mantis |
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Unit 5: Bird Stages of Development Give examples of Birds |
Stages of Development: Egg-Young-Adult Example: chicken, robin, hawk, duck |
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Unit 5: Fish Stages of Development (2) Give examples of Fish |
1. Stages of Development: Young-Adult Examples: guppies, goldfish (live birth) 2. Stages of Development: Egg-Young-Adult Examples: minnows, catfish |
