STUDENT REVIEW: Structures, Processes, and Responses in Animals

STUDENT REVIEW: Structures, Processes, and Responses in Animals

6-3 The student will demonstrate an understanding of structures, processes, and responses in animals that allow them to survive and reproduce. (Life Science)

6-3.2 Summarize the basic functions of the structures of animals that allow them to defend themselves, to move, and to obtain resources.

Animals have special structures that enable them to survive in their environment. These structures allow them to defend themselves, to move, and to obtain resources.

EQ: What structures do animals use for survival? ______

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Structures for defense

· Structures, such as skin color (camouflage) or that show patterns like other organisms (mimicry), allow an animal to ______from a predator or ______a predator.

· Structures, such as horns, claws, quills, stingers, or venom, allow an animal to ______.

· Structures, such as shells, those for emitting smells or body fluids (ink), or mechanisms for changing appearance, allow an animal to change its ______or to prevent ______.

· Structures, such as body design, sensory organs, legs (for speed or jumping), wings, or light-weight skeletons (for flight), allow an animal to ______or ______from predators.

· Structures, such as paws or toenails, allow an animal to construct ______or ______to run into and hide or to climb.

Structures for movement

· Structures, such as legs, feet and arms, tails, fins, wings, body design, or skeleton, allow animals to ______to fulfill their needs such as ______.

Structures to obtain resources

· Structures, such as mouth parts including various beak shapes, teeth, flexible jaws, tongues, or tube-shape, allow an animal to______, ______, and ______its food or drink.

· Structures, such as tentacles, pincers, claws, and fangs, allow an animal to ______and ______its food.

· Structures, such as filtering structures for filter feeders in sponges or clams, allow an animal to ______food found in the water.

Questions for homework:

· How can various body structures of animals be used for defending the animal? Give examples.

· How can various body structures of animals be used for movement? Give examples.

· How can various body structures help an animal obtain its food or water? Give examples.

· How would you describe the function/purpose of wings, stingers, light-weight skeletons, pincers, sensory organs, and flexible jaws?

· How would you classify the following structures into groups based on the function of defense, movement, obtaining resources: horns, wings, quills, toenails, claws, tentacles, venom, pores, fangs, skin color, legs, tongues, and skeletons?

TEACHER KEY: 6-3.2

Animals have special structures that enable them to survive in their environment. These structures allow them to defend themselves, to move, and to obtain resources.

Structures for defense

· Structures, such as skin color (camouflage) or that show patterns like other organisms (mimicry), allow an animal to __hide____from a predator or ___warn____ a predator.

· Structures, such as horns, claws, quills, stingers, or venom, allow an animal to ____direct a painful attack______.

· Structures, such as shells, those for emitting smells or body fluids (ink), or mechanisms for changing appearance, allow an animal to change its ____size______or to prevent ____a direct attack______.

· Structures, such as body design, sensory organs, legs (for speed or jumping), wings, or light-weight skeletons (for flight), allow an animal to ___flee______or ____hide______from predators.

· Structures, such as paws or toenails, allow an animal to construct ____holes______or _____tunnels ______to run into and hide or to climb.

Structures for movement

· Structures, such as legs, feet and arms, tails, fins, wings, body design, or skeleton, allow animals to ____move_____ to fulfill their needs such as _____finding food and escaping predators______.

Structures to obtain resources

· Structures, such as mouth parts including various beak shapes, teeth, flexible jaws, tongues, or tube-shape, allow an animal to____chew______, _____tear______, and ____eat_____ its food or drink.

· Structures, such as tentacles, pincers, claws, and fangs, allow an animal to ____grad______and _____hold______its food.

· Structures, such as filtering structures for filter feeders in sponges or clams, allow an animal to __consume / eat__ food found in the water.

Questions to Consider:

· How can various body structures of animals be used for defending the animal? Give examples.

· How can various body structures of animals be used for movement? Give examples.

· How can various body structures help an animal obtain its food or water? Give examples.

· How would you describe the function/purpose of wings, stingers, light-weight skeletons, pincers, sensory organs, and flexible jaws?