Science Test Review # 5 Mrs.

Nazario
Select the correct answer:
1. What are the stages in the metamorphosis of a frog?
a) egg, larva, adult
b) egg, tadpole, adult
c) egg, larva, pupa, adult
d) egg, tadpole, pupa, adult
2. __________________ is the major change in the body form of an animal during its life
cycle.
a) life cycle
b) metamorphosis
c) trait
d) gene
3. Which of the following is the correct order for metamorphosis?
a) adult, pupa, larva, egg
b) egg, pupa, larva, adult
c) egg, larva, pupa, adult
d) Both B, and C
4. The process of change from an egg to an adult butterfly is an example of:
a) vibrations
b) metamorphosis
c) larva
d) metacognition

5. What helps an animal look like another animal to protect it from predators?
a) niche
b) migration
c) camouflage
d) mimicry

6. Camouflage is an adaptation that allows an animal to blend in with its environment.

a) True
b) False

7. Every animal's body covering is an adaptation that helps the animal survives.
a) True
b) False

8. An adaptation is a behavior or body part that helps organisms survives in an ecosystem.

a) True
b) False

9. Gills are ______ to allow fish to live in an underwater environment?

a) a lung
b) a habitat
c) an adaptation
d) a behavior

10. A characteristic of an organism that increases its chances of survival in its environment.
a) species
b) camouflage
c) behavior
d) adaptation

11. What adaptations are sharp pointed structures used for protecting plants from animals
who attempt to eat the fleshy stems?
a) Thorns
b) Spines
c) Prickles
d) All of the above

12. A behavioral adaptation in the winter where the animal becomes inactive and its
metabolism changes is called?
a) hibernation
b) conserving energy
c) producing methane
d) sleeping

13. What is an instinct?

a) a behavior an animal inherits
b) flow of energy through a community
c) an organism that eats other organisms
d) without a backbone

14. All an animal's needs can be met in its environment.

a) True
b) False

15. Camouflage is an adaptation that allows an animal to blend in with its environment.
a) True
b) False

16. Everything that surrounds and affects an animal, including living and nonliving things is
an
a) climate
b) environment
c) shelter
d) oxygen

17. Sharks are great swimmers because they have adapted _____ to help them swim.
A: Teeth
B: Fins
C: Gills

18. Bears are able to survive winter months because they do which of the following?
A: Hibernate
B: Hunt
C: Fish

19. Porcupines' main line of defense comes from their sharp what?
A: Teeth
B: Quills
C: Claws

20. When the seasons change, animals such as geese, salmon and whales
_________________ elsewhere to find a new place to live.
A: Fly
B: Hunt
C: Migrate

21. Skunks protect themselves using what defense mechanism?

A: Scent
B: Claws
C: Speed
22. What special adaptation do starfish have for moving in their habitat?
a) long arms
b) suction cups
c) fins
d) a big mouth

23. Which of the following adaptations best helps a pelican catch his prey?
a) small feetlong wings
b) grey color
c) long beak

24. A behavior or body parts that helps living things to survive in its environment is
called_______________________.
A) adaptations.
B) a producer
C) prey
D) a consumer
25. A (n) ________________ is an organism's birth, growth, reproduction, and death.
A) behavior
B) life span
C) life cycle
D) metamorphosis
26. The behavior that an organism gains from experience is
A) learned behavior
B) inherited behavior
C) heredity
D) instinct
27. __________________ is the behavior an organism is born with.
A) Learned behavior
B) Inherited behavior
28.

A squirrel will gather and store food for the winter. What type of adaptation is this?
a) food adaptation
b) physical adaptation
c) behavioral adaptation
d) it is not an adaptation

29. Adapt means "to change"

A. True
B. False
30. Instincts are behaviors that animals need to learn.
A. True
B. False
31. Which is an example of "instinct???????
A. A mom teaching her child how to cross the street
B. A dog barking to defend itself
C. A kid teaching his dog to sit
32. A behavioral adaptation allows animals to respond to life needs by acting in a certain way.
A. True
B. False
33. Check the items that are examples of behavioral adaptation.
A. hibernation
B. camouflage
C. instinct
D. migration
34. Which term means, "a behavioral adaptation of traveling long distances to avoid a season that
the animal cannot survive in"?
A. hibernation
B. mimicry
C. migration
35. A lion teaching its cub to hunt for food is a learned behavior.
A. True

B. False

36. Hibernation is an example of a physical adaptation.

A. True
B. False
37. Camouflage is a physical adaptation that allows an animal the use of color in its environment
to blend in.
A. True
B. False
38. Mimicry is a behavioral adaptation that fools it predator by looking liking another organism.
A. True
B. False
39. What is an example of mimicry?
A. A birds wings looking like a poisonous butterfly to trick its prey and not get eaten.
B. A small brown lizard in the dessert
C. A bear finding a cave for the winter
40. Which term means, "body structures that allow an animal to find food, defend itself, and
reproduce its species"?
A. Physical adaptations
B. Adaptations
C. Behavioral adaptations
D. Learned behaviors
41. An inherited characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment...
A. Hibernation
B. Mimicry
C. Behavior
D. Adaptation
42. Behavior that an organism acquires through experience...

A. Physical Adaptation
B. Learned Behavior
C. Instinct
D. Behavioral Adaptation
43. A part of an animals body that helps it survives.
A. Physical Adaptation
B. Behavioral Adaptation
C. Instinct
D. Mimicry
44. Unlearned behavior of an organism that helps it survives...
A. Learned Behavior
B. Behavioral Adaptation
C. Instinct
D. Physical Adaptation
45. An adaptation that makes an animal look like another animal or object (usually for defense),
A. Instinct
B. Mimicry
C. Copy Cat Disease
46. A small tail and ears, hairy paws, and a fat layer help the polar bear because they allow the
bear to
a) drink less.
b) find a mate.
c) eat less.
d) stay warm.
47. Which one of these animals would be camouflaged in a pond? (1 point)

a. a frog
b. a deer
c. a monarch butterfly
d. an elephant
48. Which one of these animals would be camouflaged in the woods? (1 point)
a. a giraffe
b. a deer
c. a frog
d. a fish
49. Which one of these animals would NOT be camouflaged in a pond? (1 point)
a. a fish
b. a frog
c. a turtle
d. a deer
50. What kind of adaptation does the Viceroy butterfly use? It looks like the Monarch butterfly,
which tastes terrible to birds, so birds won't take the chance and eat the Viceroy. What is this
kind of adaptation? (1 point)
a. mimicry
b. hibernation
c. camouflage
d. instant

51. Dogs bark at strangers to protect themselves and their pack. What kind of adaptation is

barking? (1 point)
a. playful
b. instinctive
c. hibernation
d. learned
52. Which one of these behaviors does a tiger learn from its mother? (1 point)
a. migration during winter months
b. how to hunt for food
c. how to change its stripes
d. how to defend itself
53. Which animal "plays dead" when it thinks it is in danger? (1 point)
a. squirrel
b. rat
c. opossum
d. elephant
54. A young deer, called a doe, is brown with light spots. Its coloring helps it to blend in with the
trees in the woods where it lives. What kind of adaptation is this? (1 point)
a. learned behavior
b. mimicry
c. camouflage
d. instinct
55. Which of the choices below is an example of physical adaptations? (1 point)
a. a cat hissing
b. bears hibernating
c. mimicry and camouflage

56. If an animal cannot survive during a particular season, what might that animal do? (1 point)
a. instinct
b. migrate
c. hibernate
d. both b and c
57. A harmless animal that looks like a dangerous animal is an example of ____________.
A)

mirror imaging

B)

copy coloration

C)

mimicry

D)

danger replication

58. Which is not one of the stages of a 4 stage insect life cycle?
A. larva
B. pupa
C. nymph
59. A 3 stage insect life cycle includes:
A. egg
B. nymph
C. adult
D. all of the above

Fill in the blanks:

Metamorphosis

adaptations

camouflage

learned. behavior

mimicry

hibernation

migration

environment

instinct

1. When an insect goes through a change from an egg to an adult it is

_____________________.
2. A period of long, deep sleep is _____________________________.
3. Behavior and body parts that can help an animal survive are called
____________________.
4. When an animal moves from one place to another and back again it is called
_______________.
5. Protective coloration that helps an animal blend in or hide is _____________________.
6. When an animal looks like another animal or thing it has ______________________.
7. Behaviors that animals are born with are ______________________________.
8. Behaviors that animals are taught are called _______________________________.
9. Everything that surrounds and affects an animal is its __________________________.

Fill the blanks with what you learned:

1. Two categories that adaptations can be separated into are ________________ and
_______________.
2. ______________ adaptations are body structures that allow an animal to find and
consume food, defend itself, and reproduce.
3. _______________ adaptations allow animals to respond to life needs.
4. A (n) ____ behavioral adaptation must be taught.
5. A (n) _______ behavioral adaptation happens naturally.
6. ______________________________ are learned by interacting with the environment and
need to be taught to the next generation in order for animals to survive.
7. The three stages of incomplete metamorphosis are ___________________,
_________________ and __________________.
8. Name three characteristics that may help an animal adapt to an environment:
___________________________________ , _____________________________,
___________________________________