1. Life Science
Scavenger Hunt

2. What is an inherited trait?
A physical characteristic that is passed from parents to their offspring.

3. Inherited Trait examples
A duck’s webbed feet
Having blue eyes like your mother (eye color)
Skin Color

4. What is an acquired trait or learned behavior?
Something that you were NOT born knowing

5. Examples of acquired or learned behaviors
A dog goes to the door when its owner picks up the leash

6. What is an instinct? Give an example.
Something you are born knowing how to do
Dogs bark at strangers to protect themselves and their pack

7. What is camouflage?
An adaptation that allows animals to look like their surroundings

8. Animals that use camouflage
Cheetahs
Owls

9. What is mimicry?
Helps an animal LOOK LIKE another animal and protects it from predators

10. Animals that use mimicry

11. What are adaptations?
Certain traits that animals have to help them survive in their environment
Ex: Defensive (Behavioral) Adaptation
Being poisonous
Ex: Physical Adaptation
Improved hearing (bigger ears)
Run faster

12. What are fossils? The preserved remains or traces of living things
Examples:
Shells
Bones
Footprints

13. What can fossils tell us about the past?
We can see the remains of things that lived long ago

14. Where are fossils found?
Deserts
Tar pits

15. What can fossils tell us about the past?
They can tell us about extinct populations

16. What are fossils made of?
STONE

17. What types of catastrophic events occur in nature
What types of catastrophic events occur in nature? What are ways they change the environment?
Volcanos-poisonous gases/ eruptions
Tornados
Earthquakes-destruction to landscape
Blizzards-blowing snow and sub-zero temps
Tsunamis-tidal wave
Floods-too much rainfall in short time
Avalanche-bury people alive/ St. Bernards
Hurricane-strong winds near ocean
Forest Fire

18. What species have gone extinct due to catastrophic events?
Dinosaurs
Wholly Mammoths
Saber-Toothed Tigers