TCI Science Unit 4 Lesson 1 Review

When a female lion gives birth, her young...

• are all the same species, but a different species from her.

• form a new species that did not exist before.

• are the same species as each other and her.

• are each a different species and different from her.

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The shape of a blue jay's beak is one of its....

• behaviors

• environments

• traits

• offspring

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Which example shows that an offspring inherits traits from its parents?

• An oak tree has a different number of branches than its parents

• A duckling has webbed feet like its parents

• A cat can have different fur color from its parents.

• A dandelion grows in a different place from its parents

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Offspring can have different traits from their parents. This means that a common daisy plant may...

• grow up to be a rose instead of a daisy

• not have any leaves even though its parents do.

• not need sunlight like its parents do.

• have a taller stem than its parents.

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Which of the following is an example of a trait that an animal does not inherit from its parents?

• scale color

• webbed feet

• fur length

• a broken horn

Coconut crabs and flower crabs...

• .inherit the same characteristics.

• do not inherit traits from their parents.

• have all the same traits

• are members of different species.

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______ is a trait that a child can inherit from a parent.

• Eye color

• Nose shape

• Hair color

• All of the above

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Species make more _______ of the same species.

• offspring

• traits

• inherited traits

• characteristics

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Which of the following is a trait?

• beak shape of a bird

• type of leaf of a tree

• All of the above.

• scale color of a lizard

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What is a species?

• a group of living things that are different

• a characteristic that living things have

• a group of living things of the same kind

• a characteristic passed b a parent to its offspring