What are 2 things you can inherit from your parents?
examples: hair color, eye color, height, skin color, ear lobes, dimples, freckles
True / False. If my parents have straight hair, I will have straight hair.
true
What is heredity?
when traits are passed from parents to children
True / False. If my parents are short, I will be tall.
false
What are offspring?
children
True / False. A dominant gene is one that is passed down from parents to children (offspring).
true
True / False. If my parents have blue eyes, I will have blue eyes.
true
What is recycling?
not throwing something in the garbage but reusing it for something else. Reusing a water bottle for a pencil holder, or a plant holder.
True / False. Recycling is important for the environment.
true
Explain a food chain using 1 producer and 2 consumers. Start with the producer.
examples: grass, deer, lion
True / False. Herbivores eat animals.
false
Describe a beneficial interaction between two living things.
examples: bird eating bugs from a deers ear. Tree providing oxygen for cow, and cow providing carbon dioxide for tree.
Name 2 producers.
examples: tree, plant, grass, shrubs, weeds
What happens if there are no herbivores?
the ecosystem would be damaged because there would be less prey for predators, and grass and trees would grow a lot
Which of the following is a carnivore? bee, giraffe, cheetah, cricket
cheetah
Name 2 consumers.
examples: lion, cheetah, snake, shark, orca, polar bear
