Life Science Unit Review

Why do trees in northern states lose their leaves in winter while in Florida they keep them all year?

• The trees in Florida get less sun year round

• The winter in Florida is milder

• The soil in Florida has more nutrients for the trees

• The trees in the northern states originally came from Florida

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What is an observation you could make about a flowers inherited traits?

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What would be an example of a learned behavior?

• A dog guiding a disabled person to a crosswalk

• A kitten knowing to suckle milk when it is born

• A turtle returning to the same nesting ground every year

• A salmon swimming upstream to lay eggs

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Animals must get their energy from eating

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When an insect hatches from an egg and looks like a tiny version of the adult insect

What stage of metamorphosis is it?

• adult

• larva

• nymph

• pupa

How are pine tree seeds dispersed?

• the wind

• water

• animals

• children

How does a caterpillar get energy from the sun?

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A hummingbird is drinking nectar from a flower. As it is drinking it brushes against pollen on the stamen. When it moves to the next flower the pollen rubs off on the pistil of the new flower. What is this process called?

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A producer gets it's energy from

• fertilizer

• the sun

• a predator

• a decomposer

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What could fit in the missing part of the food chain?

Sun -> Dandelion-> ? -> Fox

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