Unit 2 Inheritance & Traits Quiz

What does the word investigate mean?

• • To try to learn more about something

• • To get something that is passed down

• • Differences

• • Tiny parts that make up living things 

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Which is the term for a living thing such as a plant or animal?

• • Variation

• Environment

• Organism

• Genes

The color of your eyes, the shape of your nose, or the color of your hair are all examples of a _________________.

• Life cycle

• Trait

• Evidence

• Investigation

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What is the definition of a pattern?

• A living thing

• Something that is cold

• Differences

• Something we observe to be similar over and over again

If you are planning to observe something, what are you going to do?

• • Instructions for making a living thing

• • To use any of the five sense to gather information about something

• • To get something passed down

• • Differences 

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What is a species?

• • A life cycle 

• • To try to learn more about something

• • A group of organisms that are closely related to each other

• • A tool that makes very small things look bigger

Organisms in the same species have differences.  We call these differences a ___________________.

• • Variations

• Inherit

• Environment

• Cells

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When scientists observe different species, they collect data.  What does the word data mean?

• • To get something that is passed down

• • Observations or measurements recorded in an investigation

• • A living thing such as a plant or an animal

• • All living and nonliving things in an area

What is an explanation?

• • Living things that come from parents 

• • Something that can be observed about an organism 

• • A description of how something works or why something happens

• • Information that supports an answer to a question

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Living things that come from parents are called  ______________.

• Offspring

• Evidence

• Investigate

• Observation