Name: _________________________________
Date: _________________
Animal Adaptations and Interactions Study Guide!
TEST DATE : MARCH 26TH
1) What specific traits differ between animals?
a) Shape, ______________, body parts, & ________________.
2) Placing things that share properties into specific groups is called?
_____________________
3) Know the definitions for cells, tissue, organs, and organ systems.
Cells are __________________________________
Tissues are formed when _____________________________________
Some examples of organs are __________________________________
Organs are formed when ______________________________________
A group of organs is called ________________________________
4) Vertebrates have a backbone
Invertebrates do not have a backbone
5) Animals can be classified into many subgroups. There is not only one
grouping per species.
6) Certain species are more alike than you think! Remember to think about
what each species could be classified under. Ex: vertebrate vs.
invertebrate, mammal vs. non mammal. Just because two animals look like
they could be closely related, does not mean that they are!
7) Adaptations are traits that ___________________________________
8) Predators are ______________________________________
9) What is mimicry?
10) Some examples of mimicry we talked about are the viceroy butterfly
and the monarch butterfly, the thorn bug, and the yellow jacket and the
syrphid fly.
11) How is camouflage used and why is it important?
12) What is the difference between inherited traits and learned behaviors?
13) What is the offspring called when two animals who are completely
different mate?
14) How is a crossbreed different from a hybrid?
15) Crossbreeding produces animals with desirable traits and crops that
could be more nutritious and resistant to diseases.
16) What does diversity mean?
17) Diversity occurs within a group of the same kind of animal that have
different traits.
18) What will happen if there was no diversity among animals?
19) Living and nonliving things interact in a(n) __________________.
Provide an example:
20) The study of interactions within an ecosystem is called
________________
21) Use the picture to the right to
answer the following questions:
a. What are the abiotic factors in this
ecosystem?
b. What are the biotic factors in this
ecosystem?
22) Using the picture to the right, what
is the difference between a population
and a community?
23) A habitat is
_______________________________
_______
24) A population’s niche is
_______________________________
_____
25) Can two populations have the same
niche?
26) Draw a food chain:
27) Describe a food web
28) Producers are _______________________________________
Consumers are _______________________________________
Carnivores are ______________________________________
Herbivores are _________________________________________
Omnivores are _________________________________________
Scavengers are _________________________________________
Decomposers are ________________________________________
29) What is the difference between prey and predator?