Plant & Animal Parts

Plants are able to make their own food because they–

• have special parts.

• grow from seeds.

• live in different places.

• don’t have a mouth.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Gazelles with short legs are caught and eaten by predators more often than gazelles with longer legs. This observation would best support which of the following ideas?

• There are no gazelles with very long legs.

• All types of predators run faster than all gazelles.

• Longer legs help gazelles escape predators.

• Gazelles with short legs live longer than others.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Farmers notice that an apple tree that does not produce flowers will not produce any fruit, and no seeds. This is evidence to support the idea that–

• flowers help protect an apple tree from insects.

• an apple tree can’t live unless it makes fruit.

• the fruit of some trees does not contain seeds.

• apple trees use flowers to produce offspring.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4

Students have the idea that the mouth parts of an insect are adapted to the kind of food they eat. What observation could be used to support this idea?

• The mouth parts of an insect can change over its life cycle.

• Insects with different mouth parts eat different kinds of food.

• Insects that are closely related have the same mouth parts.

• The mouth parts can be different on insects that live in the same place.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Name 3 EXTERNAL structures of a frog.

Name 3 INTERNAL structures of a bear.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Name one external structure of a cactus and explain how that structure helps it survive.