S5L2.a/b Inheritance and Learned Behavior

What is behavior that you were born with and did not have to learn?

• Learned Behavior

• Inherited Trait

• Instinct

• Acquired Physical Trait

A burn mark on a tree in a forest is the result of

• the environment

• inheritance

• both the environment and inheritance

• the parent trees

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A bright red cardinal comes to a school bird feeder every morning. Like other cardinals, this bird makes a sharp chirping sounds as it hops around the bird feeder. Which of these is a learned behavior of this bird?

• Having red feathers

• Eating seeds during the day

• Coming to the bird feeder each morning

• Making a chirping sound

Inherited characteristics from a tree come from which of the following?

• air particles

• parent trees

• nutrients from soil

• several nearby trees

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

The eastern box turtle lives in Georgia. The list shows the characteristics of eastern box turtle.

What question can be asked to to find out which characteristics is a learned behavior?

• Do all eastern box turtles like the same food?

• Do eastern box turtles in other states live for 50 states?

• Do eastern box turtles in other states have the same color spots?

• Do all eastern box turtles hide in their shells when they are frightened?

Is the following a learned behavior or inherited trait? 
the ability to understand a language

• inherited trait
• learned behavior

Which of the following is NOT a Learned Behavior?

• Food Preference
• Height
• Religion 
• Language

A family takes a group picture where bluebonnets are blooming. The family notices that some of the blooms are white and the others are blue. The color of the blooms is most likely determined by

• air temperature

• the age of the plant

• the types of consumers that eat the plant

• inheritance from parent plants

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

All of the following can be inherited from an evergreen tree EXCEPT

• Height of tree

• Leaf Shape

• Leaf Size

• Broken Limb

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What a plant or animal does

• Behavior

• Run

• Skip

• Jump

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4