Unit 5 Life Science Vocabulary Review

What is an animal without a backbone called?

• Mammal

• Invertebrate

• Vertebrate

• Reptile

What is an animal with a backbone called?

• Worm

• Invertebrate

• Vertebrate

• Jellyfish

What is the act of grouping things by using a set of rules known as?

• Classification

• Inherited Behavior

• Vascular

• Gymnosperm

What do you call a plant that has tissues that act like tubes to transport water through the plant?

• Seedless plants

• Nonvascular plants

• Classification

• Vascular plants

What type of plants absorb water like a sponge because they do NOT have tubes to carry water and nutrients?

• Nonvascular plants

• Angiosperms

• Gymnosperms

• Vascular Plants

What is a vascular plant that produces seeds but do NOT produce flowers or fruit? Instead they have seeds in hard berries or cones.

• Angiosperms

• Nonvascular plants

• Gymnosperms

• Acquired trait

What type of vascular plant has seeds produced inside of flowers or fruit?

• Inherited Trait

• Nonvascular plants

• Angiosperms

• Gymnosperms

What do you call a behavior that you do NOT have to be taught or even practice to be able to do?

• Instinctive Behavior

• Learned Behavior

• Acquired Trait

• Inherited Trait

What do you call a trait that you get after you are born? For example a scar.

• Instinctive Behavior

• Inherited Trait

• Acquired Trait

• Gene

What do you call a behavior that you acquire or get after you are born by being taught and practicing? For example throwing a football.

• Gene

• Learned Behavior

• Inherited Trait

• Instinctive Behavior