Animal Traits & Heredity Quiz

What is the baby stage in complete metamorphosis?

• Egg

• Larva

• Nymph

• Hatchling

What is the baby stage in incomplete metamorphosis?

• Pupa

• Nymph

• Larva

• Caterpillar

Which animals feed their babies milk?

• Birds

• Mammals

• Reptiles

• Amphibians

What are traits?

• Food an animal eats

• Where an animal lives

• Characteristics passed from parents

• Changes in behavior

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What is it called when an animal changes form as it grows?

• Evolution

• Inheritance

• Metamorphosis

• Pollution

What does “diet” mean?

• A type of exercise

• The food an animal eats

• A kind of environment

• A way to travel

What can changes in temperature do to animals?

• Nothing

• Change what they eat

• Affect how they grow or behave

• Make them hibernate

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What is an example of pollution affecting animals?

• A bear sleeping in winter

• Chemicals making fish grow eggs

• Rain helping a plant grow

• A deer running fast

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What is an environment?

• A plant’s roots

• The animal’s body

• Everything that surrounds a living thing

• The weather only

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What do animals inherit from their parents?

• Their homes

• Their food

• Their traits

• Their friends

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