Traits Adaptation Bones/Fossils/Skulls/Impressions Breeds/Trait Variation Dinosaurs
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What is a trait?
A quality that makes one person, animal, or thing different from another.
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What is the defintion of an adaptation?
An adaptation is when a plant or animal changes physically or cognitively in order to survive.
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What is a fossil?
A fossil is the body or impression of an animal or a plant formed in rocks in ancient times.
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What is the definition of a breed?
to produce young animals, or plants.
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What is one way we could find out what a dinosaur looked like from long ago?
Skull, bones, teeth, impressions, eggs, tracks...
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What is an example of a trait that humans have?
Eye color, hair color, walks upright on two legs, has the ability to speak, etc....
200
What is an example of an adaptation?
A chameleon changing color to blend into its environment, etc...
200
How can we learn about an animal through their skull?
If they were hunters or prey, what they ate, what kind of animal they might be or might be closely related to....
200
What is an example of a trait variation?
Example: Large dogs becoming small dogs, smaller animals becoming larger, cows producing more milk, etc.
200
What is one example of an important impression that we learned about?
Dinosaur skin...
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What are some example of traits can be negative?
Example the weight of an elephant, the height of a giraffe, etc....
300
How did the green anoles adapt their traits to survive?
They developed more scales on their pads overtime...
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What are the scientists called who study the record of life on Earth by finding fossils.
Paleontologists
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What are two reasons that animals may be bred?
For work or enjoyment.
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What are some tools that paleontologists use to dig up fossils?
Drills, chisel, axe/pick, shovel
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What is it called when a trait changes over time?
An adaptation...
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How do animals give better traits to their babies?
A stronger animal mates with a stronger animal, a stronger animal breeds with a medium animal, a medium animal breeds with a weaker animal, a weaker animal breeds with a stronger animal,
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What evidence do scientists have that make them think dinosaurs looked like big reptiles on the outside?
Impressions of their skin, skulls, bones, etc...
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What is an example of animal whos traits were adapted to make them better for working?
Chickens who lay eggs, Milk Cows, Muscle Cows, etc.
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Why are fossils so important?
They help study animals and plants from long ago...
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What is a trait called that an offspring/or baby would get from its parents called?
An Inherited trait....
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Name a physical adaptation that helps a fish swim in the water.
fins or gills
What are animals whos skulls have flat teeth called and what are animals whos skulls have sharp teeth called, and what are animals who skulls have both flat and sharp teeth called?
Carnivores, Herbivores, Omnivores
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How would you make a create an animal that has a trait you want?
Choose two animals that have features you want and continue to reproduce with babies who have the most noticeable trait.
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What can we learn from the fossils, skulls, impressions, and, tracks that we study​?
We can learn about the size and features of the animal or plant that we are studying.
We can learn about the animals diet. Were they a carnivore, herbivore and omnivore.
We can learn if these animals were hunters or prey.
We can learn about the region which the animal or plant lived in even if they don't exist today or, they don't live in that region anymore.
We can learn about the animals offspring. ​






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