Biology by Bradford
B4.1 Adaptation to environment: grass skirts
20 quick questions on adaptation to environment, each answered in a word or two. Print a sheet for each team, a key for the checker and a tick sheet, then tape the sheets to the board and race.
How it runs
- SnipA runner cuts one strip off the bottom of their team’s sheet.
- Answer as a pairBack at the table, they write the answer on the strip. No books.
- Get it checkedThe checker reads it against the key: you, or a student holding it.
- Back for the nextA tick earns the next strip. Wrong? Back to the table to try again.
The questions on this sheet
The checker’s key, with every answer, prints with the sheets.- Place where an organism or species lives
- Non-living influence such as temperature
- Inherited trait suiting life in a habitat
- Line along which quadrats are placed
- Salt concentration of water or soil
- Tree of salty, waterlogged tropical coasts
- Ecosystem needing warm, clear, shallow sea
- Group of ecosystems with similar climate
- Cold, treeless biome with permafrost
- Biome with scorching days and scant rain
- Hot biome that is wet all year round
- Limits of a factor a species can survive
- Rolled-leaf plant of coastal sand dunes
- Cloudiness of water that blocks light
- Why cacti and euphorbias look so alike
- Cold northern biome of needle-leaf trees
- Cactus leaves reduced to cut water loss
- Pointed leaf end that sheds rainwater
- Desert canid with huge heat-losing ears
- Upward root letting mangroves get oxygen