Module 2 Concept 2

What is a butterfly?

• An insect that has a long, thing body and four wings that are often brightly colored

• A bird that has bright and colorful wings and flys around

• a mammal

• a long this caterpillar that makes a chrysalis

The large area surrounding an organism that includes what the organism needs to survive is called

• a home

• an environment

• a habitat

• a river

What do scientists call living things?

• non-living

• fossils

• organisms

• animals

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What is a fossil?

• The remains or impression of an organism that lived long ago

• Living organisms

• rocks

• bones of animals

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What is an example of an artificial habitat?

• a forest

• an ocean

• a mountain

• a fish tank

What is a part of an environment that contains everything a particular organism needs to survive?

• environment

• habitat

• forest

• ocean

What is a characteristic of an organism?

• an observable part of a organism

• a habitat

• an environment

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Identify if the environment is suitable or not suitable for the following organism.

An ocean for a shark

• suitable

• not suitable

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How do you know if an environment is suitable for an organism?

• it contains none of the things an organism needs to survive

• it contains some of the things an organism needs to survive

• it contains all of the things an organism needs to survive

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Why do scientists have to depend on fossils to learn about that past thousands of years ago?

• fossils are better than living organisms

• that is all they have to study since it was so long ago

• they want to study them

• fossils cannot tell you anything about the past

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