1. Science Chapter 2 Study Guide
How Animals Live

2. Test Questions
Your test will include… multiple choice questions. true or false questions. short answer questions.

3. How does a pelican’s bill help it survive?
It helps the bird catch fish.
It helps the bird store water.
It helps the bird attack other animals.
It helps the bird balance when it walks.

4. Answer
A. It helps the bird catch fish.

5. Body parts, such as webbed feet, are inherited, or…
learned.
never changed.
passed on from parents to offspring
not adapted to different environments.

6. Answer
C. passed on from parents to offspring

7. An instinct is a behavior that animals…
copy
are born to do.
teach each other.
must learn so they can survive.

8. Answer
B. are born to do.

9. Which kind of animal usually develops inside its mother?
Bird
Insect
Mammal
Amphibian

10. Answer
C. Mammal

11. What do we usually call a butterfly when it is a larva?
Egg
Pupa
Chrysalis
caterpillar

12. Answer
D. caterpillar

13. True or False
Animals know when to hibernate, or fly south for the winter. There they can find food.

14. Answer
False

15. True or False
There are many more invertebrates than vertebrates.

16. Answer
True

17. True or False
Some animals start their lives as eggs.

18. Answer
True

19. True or False
A very young frog acts much like a fish.

20. Answer
True

21. True or False
Traits are features of animals, like fish’s gills or scales.

22. Answer
True

23. Short Answer Questions
Please restate the question and check your answer for proper spelling, capitalization and punctuation.

24. Questions
Describe one similarity and one difference between a butterfly’s life cycle and a frog’s life cycle. (page 45-47)
Describe 2 ways that migrating helps animals survive. (page 52)