Heredity

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Science
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4th Grade
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Melinda Carney
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10 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Spiders spin web by instinct. Which statement best describes the behavior of spiders?
The spider learns how to spin a web from its mother.
The spider can spin a web only after practicing how to do it.
The spider learns how to spin its web by watching other spiders.
The spider knows how to spin the web the first time the spider does it.
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which of the following explains why
some animals hibernate?
Hibernating is a response to changes in the environment.
Animals hibernate as a defense against predators.
Hibernating is an inherited physical adaptation.
Most animals hibernate to avoid the summer’s heat.
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS2-4
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Arctic Hares are brown in the summer and white in the winter. Which of these is most likely the
cause of this color change?
a new learned behavior
the quality of the food the hare eats
the amount of sunlight
changes in the environment
Tags
NGSS.MS-LS1-5
NGSS.MS-LS2-4
NGSS.MS-LS4-4
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
At an aquarium a dolphin swims through the water, jumps into the air, and takes food out of a
trainer’s hand. What kind of behavior does the dolphin demonstrate at the aquarium show?
learned only
hereditary only
both learned and inherited
neither learned or inherited
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
You are studying different types of flowering plants for a class project. What is an actual observation you can make about plants?
That the flowers have funny shapes.
Most people would like the smell of the flowers.
The number of flowers each plant has.
That the pink flower is prettier then the purple flower.
Tags
NGSS.4-LS1-1
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Your teacher asked what you did today and you said that you rode a bike to school, spoke Spanish with a friend, jumped when the fire alarm sounded, and finished science and math homework. What did you do that was instinctive behavior?
Spoke Spanish
Rode a bike
Completed math and science homework
jumped at the sound of the fire alarm
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Which is a characteristic that you probably did not inherit from your parents?
color of hair
size of feet
length of hair
shape of ears
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