This is a daily exercise to be used while teaching the SlideShare presentation Heredity and Environment found in: http://www.slideshare.net/MMoiraWhitehouse

1. This is a daily exercise to be used while teaching the SlideShare presentation
Heredity and Environment found in:
http://www.slideshare.net/MMoiraWhitehouse
Sponge 1
Inherited Physical Traits
and Instincts
Moira Whitehouse PhD

2. 1. Heredity explains:
a. how offspring inherit physical traits from
their parents.
b. how scientists decide whether a living thing
is endangered.
c. how an animal’s habitat affects its survival.
d. how plants and animals meet their needs.

3. 2. The physical traits of a living thing
allow scientists to
a. decide which livings things are
decreasing in number
b. decide if a living thing is extinct
c. distinguish one living thing from
another
d. describe a living thing’s habitat

4. 3. This cat has light
brown eyes, brown
spots, rounded ears, a
pink nose, light brown
eyes, two dark vertical
stripes on its face and
paws with sharp
claws. Scientists
called these
characteristics:
DigitART2 http://www.flickr.com
a. a description c. physical traits
b. a habitat d. a carnivore

5. Ben http://www.flickr.com/
4. One of the physical traits of this cactus is that
a. it lives in the desert c. its nectar is food for insects
b. it has red flowers d. the sun is its source of energy.

6. a. maple b. pine tree c. oak
N2kmp(kim) http://www.flickr.com http://www.freedigitalphotos.net maytevidri http://www.flickr.com/
5. Match the physical trait to the tree
____a. sharp needle pointed leaves
____b. leaves with five pointed lobes
____c. Leaves with rounded lobes

7. 6. Which of the following is
a true statement.
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a. You can tell these identical twins apart by the shape of
their noses
b. You can tell these identical twins apart by the color of
their eyes
c. You can tell these identical twins apart by the color of
their hair
d. It is almost impossible to tell these identical twins apart
because their physical traits are almost the same.

8. leah farm fotos (Roger) http://www.flickr.com/ brettm8 http://www.flickr.com/
7. These babies resemble (look like) their mothers because
a. they live in the same habitat as their parents.
b. their environment is the same as their parents.
c. they inherit their physical traits from their parents.
d. they are part of the same food chain as their parents.

9. 8. These two large cats have
prominent physical traits that
identify them as a tiger and a
leopard. What physical trait is
most useful in telling them
apart?
a. Size of their paws
b. Shape of their ears
c. Shape of their noses
d. Fur coloring, stripes or spots.
Both photos by TropicaLiving http://www.flickr.com

10. 9. Heredity also explains:
a. how scientists decide whether a living thing
is endangered.
b. how an offspring inherits instincts from its
parents.
c. how an animal’s habitat affects its survival.
d. how plants and animals meet their needs.

11. 10. Instincts are behaviors that
a. animals learn
b. animals are born knowing how to do
c. animals inherit from their parents
d. both b and c

12. 11. Which
picture shows
a.
an instinct c.
that the
animal By pacifist http://www.flickr.com
inherited from
By Elston http://www.flickr.com
its parents?
By imagelnnovation http://www.flickr.com
by ucumari http://www.flickr.com
d.
b.