WorksheetsTraits and Inheritance in Organisms
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 14mins
What is a trait?
A type of food an animal eats
A feature or characteristic of a living thing
A place where animals live
A kind of weather
Which of the following is an inherited trait?
Eye color
Favorite food
Riding a bicycle
Speaking a language
What do we call the young of a plant or animal?
Parent
Offspring
Predator
Prey
Which of these is a trait that can be influenced by the environment?
The color of a flower’s petals
The amount a plant grows
The number of legs an insect has
The shape of a bird’s beak
What is the process called when an animal changes color to blend in with its environment?
Migration
Camouflage
Hibernation
Photosynthesis
Which stage comes first in the life cycle of a butterfly?
Adult
Egg
Pupa
Larva
What do we call the process of passing traits from parents to offspring?
Adaptation
Heredity
Migration
Instinct
Which of these is an example of a variation in a group of the same species?
All cats have the same color fur
Some cats have long tails, others have short tails
All cats eat the same food
All cats sleep at night
Which of the following is a learned behavior, not an inherited trait?
A dog barking
A bird building a nest
A child learning to ride a bike
A fish swimming
Which of these is true about all life cycles of living things?
They all start as adults
They all include birth, growth, reproduction, and death
They all live in water
They all fly
If a plant grows taller when it gets more sunlight, what is this an example of?
Inherited trait
Environmental influence
Instinct
Food chain
A rabbit has white fur in the winter and brown fur in the summer. What does this show?
The rabbit’s fur color is only inherited
The rabbit’s fur color can be influenced by the environment
The rabbit’s fur color never changes
The rabbit’s fur color is a learned behavior
Why might some birds have longer beaks than others of the same species?
They eat different kinds of food
They live in the same place
They all have the same parents
They all fly the same way
A sunflower always turns toward the sun. Is this an inherited trait or influenced by the environment?
Inherited trait
Influenced by the environment
Both inherited and influenced
Neither
Which of these best explains why some puppies in the same litter look different from each other?
They have different parents
There is variation in inherited traits
They eat different foods
They live in different places
How can having a longer neck help a giraffe survive in its environment?
It helps the giraffe run faster
It helps the giraffe reach leaves high in trees
It helps the giraffe swim
It helps the giraffe sleep
A frog lays eggs in water. The eggs hatch into tadpoles, which grow legs and become adult frogs. Which model best shows this life cycle?
Egg → Tadpole → Adult Frog
Egg → Adult Frog → Tadpole
Tadpole → Egg → Adult Frog
Adult Frog → Egg → Tadpole
A group of beetles lives in a forest. Some are green, and some are brown. Birds eat more green beetles than brown ones. Over time, there are more brown beetles. Why?
Brown beetles are better at hiding, so they survive and reproduce more
Green beetles are faster
Brown beetles eat more food
Green beetles lay more eggs
A scientist observes that some plants in a garden have larger leaves than others, even though they are the same kind of plant. What could be a reason for this difference?
The plants with larger leaves inherited the trait from their parents, or they got more sunlight and water
All plants always have the same size leaves
The plants with smaller leaves are older
The plants with larger leaves are a different species
A student notices that some frogs in a pond are green and some are brown. The brown frogs are harder to see on muddy banks, while green frogs are easier to see. How might this difference help the brown frogs survive and have more offspring?
Brown frogs are less likely to be seen and eaten by predators, so they survive and have more babies
Green frogs can jump higher
Brown frogs eat more food
Green frogs live longer
Is an ant, living or nonliving?
living
non living
I am not sure.
This is a live oak tree, which can grow 40 to 80 feet tall.
This is a coconut palm tree, which can grow 60 to 80 feet tall.
Find one trait these two trees pass on to their offspring.
tree height
tree fungus
tree decay
Which of the following is the best definition for heredity?
Heredity is the passing of particles from high concentration to low concentration.
Heredity explains how DNA copies itself.
Heredity is the passing of traits from parent to offspring.
Heredity is the forming of clones.
Inherited traits are controlled by
nucleus
chromosomes
genes
cells
