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Science Unit One Study Guide
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1.Some animals’ bodies are surrounded by a thin hard covering called an
EXOSKELETON.
2. All living things are made of building blocks called CELLS.
3. Scaly-skinned vertebrates that breathe through lungs are called REPTILES.
4. All plants go through a food-making process called PHOTOSYNTHESIS.
5. Animals stay safe in a place called a SHELTER
6. Animals and plants get what they need to survive through different STRUCTURES.
7. Animals that have backbones are VERTEBRATES.
8. All living things can be described as ORGANISMS.
9. Animals without backbones are INVERTEBRATES.
10. All living things are surrounded by an ENVIRONMENT.
11. How do trees make food? PHOTOSYNTHESIS
12. How do plants and animals differ? Animals cannot make their own food.
13. Name an animal that has gills and cannot survive out of water. FISH
14. What do nutrients do? Help living things grow and stay healthy.
15. What type of animal looks like a fish when they hatch, but change? AMPHIBIANS
16. What structure allows bird to take in oxygen? LUNGS
17. What structure allows fish to take in oxygen? GILLS
18. Why would a plant not grow in a dark room? Plants’ leaves trap energy from the
sunlight to help them grow.
19. Be able to draw and label a tree’s roots, stem, and leaves.
20. Name a characteristic unique to frogs. Start out with gills, grow lungs to live on
water.
21. Name a characteristic unique to fish. Breathe through gills, spend entire lives in the
water.
22. Passing traits from parents to their young is called HEREDITY
23. A process through which an organism’s body changes form is called
METAMORPHOSIS.
24. When an insect hatches, it is called LARVA
25. Traits that are passes down from parents to their children are called INHERITED
TRAITS.
26. The stage in an insect’s life cycle between larva and adult is called the PUPA.
27. Features of a living thing, are called TRAITS.
28. Conifers use CONES to reproduce.
29. A LIFE CYCLE is the stages in an organism’s life.
30. The process of moving pollen from the male part of a flower to the female part of a
flower is POLLINATION.
31. A new plan grows from a SEED.
32. When a seed is planted in the soil and the conditions are right, it begins to grow in a
process called GERMINATION.
33. What is the first stage in the life cycle of a ladybug? EGG
34. Riding a bicycle is an example of what king of trait? LEARNED TRAIT
35. What three factors affect an organism’s traits? Heredity, environment, learning.
36. What is the larval stage of a frog called? TADPOLE.
Students will also have an open response about Inherited and Learned traits.