Which of the following behaviors was probably inherited?

• A child riding a bike to school

• A young bear going to campsites to find food

• A baby horse taking its first breath

• A young chimpanzee making a tool to catch termites

Which statement below is an example of an inherited trait in a living thing?

• A child learns how to read a book

• A cat has a kitten with a broken leg

• A white dog has a puppy with white fur

• A woman has a scar from falling down

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One class of students is collecting seeds from a sunflower. They notice that most of the leaves on the sunflower plant have patterns of holes made by chewing insects, as shown in the picture. Next school year, the students are going to plant the sunflower seeds they collected. How many of the sunflower plants that grow would be expected to inherit the chewed leaf pattern?

• All of the plants

• Most of the plants

• Half of the plants

• None of the plants

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Baby chicks peck their way out of their shells when they hatch. This activity is an example of which of the following types of behavior?

• Instinctive

• Planned

• Social

• Learned

A trait is—

• the ability to thrive and survive

• a characteristic of an organism

• a reward for doing good work

• an activity that is easy to learn

Which of the following is a learned behavior for the child pictured?

• shivering when his body is cold

• zipping up his winter coat to keep warm

• having hair on his body to keep warm

• closing his eyes when the wind blows

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Which of the following is a learned behavior?

• A snake slithering on the ground

• A bee pollinating flowers

• A duck swimming in a pond

• A dog fetching a newspaper

Which of the following organisms can learn a behavior?

• Apple tree

• Dandelion

• Rabbit

• Rose bush

A dog owner feeds his new dog in its sleeping crate. Soon, the dog runs to the crate when he is hungry. This behavior is an example of—

• inherited behavior

• learned behavior

• instinct

• migration pattern

Some traits and behaviors are learned and some are inherited. Which of the following traits are inherited?

• speaking Spanish

• bird saying hello

• cat using a litter box

• spines on a cactus

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