Structures and Behaviors of Organisms TEKS 10

Which term describes a support structure on the outside of an animal?

• Exothermic 
• Exoskeleton 
• Endothermic

What is a species? 

• A group of organisms that can mate with each other and produce fertile offspring. 

• A group of organisms that can mate and produce offspring even if those offspring are infertile.

• A group of organisms that genetically are very different from each other. 

• Indivual organisms that live in the same environment. 

A population is best described as....

• When a new species is made from an existing species

• A group of individuals in the same species

• Mating

• Ability of an organism to have children

Differences

• Species

• Survival

• Trait

• Variations

Looks, acts or functions

• Species

• Survival

• Trait

• Variations

behaviors acquired by an organisms interactions with its environment/parents

• learned behaviors

• inherited traits

• inherited behaviors

• mimicry

characteristics passed from parent to offspring

• inherited traits

• learned behavior

• camouflage

• environment

when an organism uses trick coloration to avoid predation

• mimicry

• markers

• camouflage

Your desk is an organism.

• true

• false

the smallest unit of life and make up all living things

• microorganism

• plant

• cell

• structure