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A feature passed on to a living thing from its parents

What is a trait?

A trait that helps a living thing survive in its environment

What is an adaptation?

An animal with a backbone

What is a vertebrate?

A trait that has been passed on from a parent to offspring Hint: They were born with it. Example red hair.

What is inherited?

The stage in an insect’s life after it hatches from the egg

What is larva?

The stage in an insect’s life between larva and adult Hint: This is where the big change takes place

What is pupa?

To spend the winter resting when body systems slow down to save energy Bears and bats do this

What is hibernate?

To move to another place to find better climate, food, or a mate

What is migrate?

This adaptation, the pouch on a pelican, helps the pelican survive by doing this

What is catch fish?

This is a behavior that an animal is born able to do Example: migrate, open mouths for food

What is instinct?

Fill in the blank: Chimpanzees______ how to use sticks to dig for insects by watching other chimpanzees like their parents

What is a learn?

This is when an animals blends in with its environment to stay protected

What is a camouflage?

An animal must have these to live in the water

What are gills?

Name one way that an animal is considered to be a mammal

What is they have fur, develop inside the mother’s body, and get milk from their mother

Plants get food by making it in their leaves. This is how animals get food

What is from eating other plants and animals?

This is when an animal copies another animal to stay protected Example: the monarch butterfly and poisonous snakes

What is mimicry?

Tadpoles develop these so that as they get bigger and turn into a frog they can survive on land

What are lungs?

This is the remains of an animal from years ago

What is a fossil?

This is a sticky tree sap that has hardened and traps insects

What is amber?

This is a type of fossil where dirt and mud have hardened and filled it in

What is a cast fossil?

This is the number of groups of animals that have vertebrates

What is 5?

This is the term used to describe animals without a backbone

What are invertebrates?

This type of vertebrate can fly because of its wings and hollow bones

What are birds?

This type of vertebrate lives underwater and breathes through gills

What are fish?

This type of vertebrate can live both in the water and on land

What are amphibians?