Plant and Animal Structures

Plants are able to make their own food because they–

• have special parts

• grow from seeds

• live in different places

• have mouths

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Gazelles with short legs are caught and eaten by predators more often than gazelles with longer legs. This observation would best support which of the following ideas?

• There are no gazelles with very long legs.

• Longer legs help gazelles escape predators.

• All types of predators run faster than all gazelles.

• Gazelles with short legs live longer than others.

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Farmers notice that an apple tree that does not produce flowers will not produce any fruit, and no seeds. This is evidence to support the idea that -

• flowers help protect an apple tree from insects.

• an apple tree can’t live unless it makes fruit.

• the fruit of some trees does not contain seeds.

• apple trees use flowers to produce more trees.

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Which observation could be used to support the idea that insects’ mouth parts are adapted to the kind of food they eat?

• The mouth parts of an insect can change over its life cycle.

• Insects that are closely related have the same mouth parts.

• Insects with different mouth parts eat different kinds of food.

• The mouth parts can be different on insects that live in the same place.

Photosynthesis is-

• the process of changing carbon dioxied to sugar for food

• the proces of changing oxygen to sugar for food

• the process of plants changing sunlight to sugar for food

• a nonsense word that has no meaning

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The process of staying alive and in existence is:

• survival

• growth

• behavior

• external structure

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A type of organism that gets its energy directly from the Sun and is unable to move from place to place on its own:

• growth

• worm

• plant

• reptile

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Organisms are:

• some living things

• animals

• plants

• all living things

An increase or expansion of something:

• survival

• growth

• internal structure

• external structure

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How an organism acts in its envrionment:

• kind

• survival

• behavior

• function

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