WorksheetsG5 Heredity
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 10mins
In what way will a kitten always be like its parents? The kitten will...
be the same color.
learn the same things.
have the same body structures.
live in the same places.
Use the chart above. Which puppies would you most expect to have parents with brown fur?
Sam and Kira
Mongo and Kira
Chewy and Yoso
Sam and Chewy
Use the chart above. Which trait could be influenced by the environment?
Fur color changes with the seasons.
Fur color changes as you get older.
Height is affected by what you eat.
You can stretch to grow taller.
An egg laid by a butterfly turns into a caterpillar. How can an offspring look so different from its parent?
All offspring look much different from their parents.
The caterpillar will become a butterfly
When the caterpillar lays eggs, they will hatch into butterflies.
Butterflies are different from one another and from their parents.
How does a seller of Cocker Spaniels make sure every puppy they raise looks like a Cocker Spaniel?
The cross a female Cocker Spaniel with a Golden Retriever.
They dock their tails and ears as soon as they are born.
They train the puppies to act like all Cocker Spaniels do.
They make sure the mother and father are Cocker Spaniels.
What specialized structures do deer have that help them survive against predators?
Warm, brown hair
Large and intelligent brains
Fast running bodies
Good digestive systems
If you got a kitten, fed it cat food, let it live indoors and never taught it to hunt, it would still know how to catch a mouse. Why?
Instinctive behavior is inherited from parents.
It learned from its mother or father.
Other adult cats in the neighborhood taught it.
It learned from humans or other pets.
Dogs from Iceland have thick hair. What advantage does that give the dogs?
They look bigger and impress their enemies.
They stay warmer in the cold climate.
They hunt better and can catch more food.
More people will want them and they become popular.
Which of the following is NOT a way desert animals have adapted to survive in the desert?
thick fur
are active at night
small size
live in burrows
To which environment is a buffalo best adapted?
ice sheets
mountains
desert
grasslands
