1.5 Scientific Explanation: Environments & Survival

How easy is it for yellow shelled grove snails to meet their food needs in their environment?

• easy

• hard

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How easy is it for yellow shelled grove snails to meet their water needs in their environment?

• easy

• hard

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How easy is it for yellow shelled grove snails to avoid predators in their environment?

• easy

• hard

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This data card provides more evidence that

• banded shelled snails are not surviving well.

• banded shelled snails are surviving well.

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One known predator of the grove snail is the

• song thrush bird

• house sparrow bird

• wood thrush bird

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Which type of snail would be easiest to see from the sky?

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Making ​ (a)   is an ​ (b)   practice in ​ (c)   .

• explanations
• important
• science

Scientific explanations answer questions about

• when and where something happens.

• how or why something happens.

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Scientific explanations describe things that are ​ (a)   to observe.

• not easy
• easy

All the living and nonliving things in an area.

• environment

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• population

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• explanation

• to stay alive

• survive

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• predator

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