Life Cycles and Traits

How does camouflage help an animal survive?

• It makes it taste bad to predators.

• It helps it find a mate.

• It helps it run or swim faster.

• It makes it less visible to predators and/or prey.

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When an animal gives birth, its young, or offspring,

• make a brand new species

• are the same species as the mother and each other

• are all the same species, but are a different species than the mother

• are all a different species

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If Mrs. Mortimer has 3 plants of the same species and same age in her home, which environmental change might cause one plant to be smaller than the rest?

• It does not get as much light as the others.

• It doesn't get enough water.

• It has bugs in the soil.

• All of the above.

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How do the peacock's colorful feathers help it survive?

• They help it attract a mate.

• They help the peacock find food.

• They help him hide from predators.

• They help it stay dry when it is raining.

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The shape of a cardinal's beak is an example of one of its

• environments

• offspring

• behaviors

• traits

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A baby panda is pink. What will it most likely look like when it grows up?

• Black and white, like its parents.

• Green, like the bamboo it will eat as an adult.

• Pink, like it is as a baby.

• Grey, due to an inherited trait from its parents.

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How does having sweeter strawberries help a strawberry plant reproduce?

• Sweeter strawberries make it more attractive to other strawberry plants.

• Animals are less likely to eat it and ruin the seeds.

• Sweet strawberries are best at protecting the seeds from the environment.

• Animals are more likely to eat the strawberries and carry the seeds to new soil.

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A pine tree with needle-shaped leaves passes this inherited trait to its offspring. This means that the offspring's leaves are

• wide and flat

• circular

• needle-shaped

• smaller than the parent tree's leaves

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Which of the following is an example of how offspring inherit traits from their parents.

• A duckling has webbed feet like its parents.

• A cat can have different colored fur than its parents.

• A dandelion grows in a different place from its parents.

• An oak tree has more branches than its parents.

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Which of the following life cycle stages is unique to mammals?

• adult, or fully mature

• inside of an egg in a hard shell

• baby, because young mammals look very different from their parents

• developing inside the mother's body