Science Chapter 2 Animal Review 11/10/2018

The five basic needs of animals are: Air Water Food Shelter Space 11/10/2018

In your mind, choose two animals. What adaptations do these animals possess? Is each animal’s adaptation an adaptation for growth and development, survival or reproduction? 11/10/2018

My First Pick… A polar bear has thick white fur to keep it warm (purpose – survival). Its fur also helps it to blend in with its artic environment (purpose – camouflage for survival). 11/10/2018

My Second Choice… The bright red body of a male cardinal helps it attract a mate (purpose – reproduction). In other animals, bright colors tell predators to stay away. They have learned the animal is poisonous! 11/10/2018

What is an organism? An organism is any living thing. 11/10/2018

What animal only eats plants and vegetation? A herbivore 11/10/2018

What animal only eats meat? A carnivore 11/10/2018

What animal eats both the meat from other animals and plants? An omnivore 11/10/2018

What is an animal called that hunts for its food? A predator 11/10/2018

An animal that is food for a predator is called prey 11/10/2018

A ________ is an organism that makes its own food. producer 11/10/2018

What is a consumer? A consumer is an organism that eats a producer or another consumer in a food chain. 11/10/2018

A _________ is an animal that eats dead animals that it does not kill. scavenger 11/10/2018

What is a decomposer? A decomposer breaks down the remains of once living materials. 11/10/2018

Mild Forest Ecosystem Food Chain…If one of these organisms were taken out, how would this affect the rest of the food chain? 11/10/2018

What is an example of an inherited trait? Eye color Hair color 11/10/2018

Animals hunting for food A dog doing tricks Learned behaviors are behaviors that animals learn through experience. Give an example of a learned behavior. Language Animals hunting for food A dog doing tricks 11/10/2018

Baby sea turtles going to the sea. Instinctive behaviors are patterns of behavior that are automatic. Give an example of an instinctive behavior. A Spider spinning a web. Migration Baby sea turtles going to the sea. 11/10/2018

What is an inherited behavior? An inherited behavior is much like a reflex. It is a behavior that is inherited from our parents, such as scratching an itch or crying. 11/10/2018

What is a metamorphosis? A change in body form. 11/10/2018

List the steps of a complete metamorphosis. Egg Larva Pupa Adult 11/10/2018

List the steps of an incomplete metamorphosis. Egg Nymph Adult 11/10/2018

Life Cycle of a chicken… 11/10/2018

A vertebrate is an animal with a backbone. What is a vertebrate? A vertebrate is an animal with a backbone. 11/10/2018

What is an invertebrate? An invertebrate is an animal without a backbone. 11/10/2018

What are the characteristics of a fish What are the characteristics of a fish? Identify one animal in this class. Lives in water Breathes through gills Has a backbone Covered with scales Cold-blooded 11/10/2018

What are the characteristics of amphibians What are the characteristics of amphibians? List one animal in this class. Lives part of life in water and part of life on land. Cold-blooded Has a backbone Has smooth, moist skin and no scales Usually goes through a metamorphosis 11/10/2018

What are the characteristics of reptiles? List one animal in this class. Dry, rough, scaly skin Has lungs for breathing Cold-blooded Has a backbone Most hatch from eggs 11/10/2018

What are the characteristics of birds What are the characteristics of birds? List one example of an animal in this class. Has feathers Warm-blooded Hatches from an egg Has a backbone Has a beak Has two legs and two wings. 11/10/2018

What are the characteristics of mammals? List one animal in this class. Babies are fed with milk from the mother’s body Has a backbone Has a well-developed brain Warm-blooded Has fur or hair 11/10/2018

Identify one environmental change and describe how this change could either be beneficial or harmful to the ecosystem. Fire can be both beneficial and harmful. Fire can destroy our land and animal’s habitats but it can also clear away dead or diseased plants and brush to make new room for organisms to grow. 11/10/2018

Identify one environmental change that can be caused by humans. Fire Construction 11/10/2018

List three differences between an insect and an arachnid and one thing these organisms have in common. Differences – insects have 6 legs and arachnids have 8, insects have 3 body parts and arachnids have only 2 body parts and insects can fly and arachnids can not fly Common – they are both invertebrates 11/10/2018

List three differences between a reptile and an amphibian and two things these organisms have in common. Differences – reptiles have dry, rough, scaly skin and amphibians have smooth moist skin, reptile babies look like smaller copies of their parents and most amphibians go through a metamorphosis, and amphibians have gills part of their lives and lungs the other part of their lives, reptiles breathe through lungs all their lives. Common – they are both cold-blooded vertebrates 11/10/2018

Good luck on your test! Be sure to study, study, study! 11/10/2018