Reporting Category Independent Practice

Plants are known as producers because they produce their own food.  How do producers receive the energy for this process?

• By consuming soil nutrients
• By absorbing sunlight
• By releasing water
• By producing oxygen

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the mice's energy is transferred directly to the

• fox
• bird
• owl
• rabbit

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plants need sunlight, water and ________________ to make their own food

• photosynthesis
• carbon dioxide
• oxygen
• sunlight

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• Adult lacewings lay eggs, but adult frogs give birth to live larvae.

• When they hatch, young lacewings and young frogs look different from their adult forms

• When they hatch, both lacewings and frogs have long legs for jumping.

• Both adult lacewings and adult frogs have more legs than they had as larvae.

Chameleons are colorful lizards. They spend their life in trees and bushes.What is most likely an advantage of a chameleon's incredibly long tongue?

• The long tongue helps chameleons move very fast.

• The long tongue helps chameleons climb trees.

• The long tongue helps the chameleon have a 360 view.

• The long tongue helps Chameleons catch insects that they eat.

Which of the following describes an example of how one living organism depends on another living organism to survive?

• A dog eating dog food from a bowl

• A bird is able to pick out food off the fur of a deer

• Mold living in a lunch box

• Bacteria living in a rock

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Which of the following is an acquired trait?

• A plant responds to an environment and grows a certain way

• The color of eyes

• Table manners

• Reading a book

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Many desert plants have a thick waxy covering. The waxy covering covers most of the plants' leaves. This adaptation allows many desert plants to-

• keep the plant cooler and reduces evaporation loss

• grow very tall

• compete for sunlight

• grow wide

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Which of the following is NOT an inherited trait?

• Learning sign language

• Color of hair

• Color of eyes

• Yellow beak

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Aquatic plants have adaptations that help them survive in water habitats.Floating plants have structures needed for making food that are located at the top of the plants.This adaptation helps the plants-

• stay away from predators

• absorb sunlight

• grow faster

• capture other water organisms