Animal & Plant Adaptations - Unit Assessment

Based on the information below, sort each statement into True or False categories.

Tropical rainforests are environments that get lots of rain. The island of Borneo is one example of a rainforest environment.

Borneo is filled with many tall trees that grow to over 100 feet (30 meters) tall. The leaves of these trees are all clustered near the top. They look like a dense, green umbrella, where everything below is shaded. The plants living below the trees can survive in the shade, but the trees need lots of sunlight.

The leaves of these trees have very pointy tips called “drip tips”. They help all the rain wash off the leaf so that the weight of all that water doesn’t break them. 

Groups:

(a) True

,

(b) False

• Structure, of branches only at the top, helps the trees get sunlight needed to grow & survive.

• The structure, tall trunk, helps the trees get the sunlight that to grow and survive.

• Trees absorb all of the water needed to grow & survive through the pointed tips of their leaves.

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Choose one of the options below to make a claim.

Claim: The structures of the trunks, branches, and leaves (do / do not) work together to help trees of the Borneo rainforest grow and survive.

• do

• do not

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Based off your choice in the previous claim:

Claim: The structures of the trunks, branches, and leaves (do / do not) work together to help trees of the Borneo rainforest grow and survive.

Support your claim with evidence and reasoning from the text below and images.

Tropical rainforests are environments that get lots of rain. The island of Borneo is one example of a rainforest environment.

Borneo is filled with many tall trees that grow to over 100 feet (30 meters) tall. The leaves of these trees are all clustered near the top. They look like a dense, green umbrella, where everything below is shaded. The plants living below the trees can survive in the shade, but the trees need lots of sunlight.

The leaves of these trees have very pointy tips called “drip tips”. They help all the rain wash off the leaf so that the weight of all that water doesn’t break them. 

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Read the story and observe the photos.

Using the text and images above as evidence, which of the following external and internal structures work together as a system to help the flying frog escape from predators? Choose all that apply.

• eyes

• mouth

• leg muscles

• skin

• long tail

Read the story and observe the photos.

Using the text and images above as evidence, which of the following external and internal structures work together as a system to help the flying frog escape from predators? Choose all that apply.

• Tongue

• webbed hands

• webbed feet

• eggs

• stomach

Match the following vocabulary terms to their definitions.

• The specific form and shape of something

• Structure

• 
  group of things that affect each other

• Adaptation

• What something does

• System

• A physical trait or behavior that helps

• Function

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Match the following

• A behavior that is learned based on past

• learned behavior

• Something you can observe about a living

• brain

• Actions & reactions of living things

• trait

• Behavior that a living thing just does

• instinct

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