✍️ Short Response — Use Evidence
Choose two different animals from the unit and explain how one structure from each animal helps it survive, behave, grow, or reproduce.
🔑 Parent Answer Key
Detach note: Student wording may vary if the structure-function reasoning is correct.
Multiple-Choice Answer Key
- Because different structures do different jobs for survival.
- A sensory structure helps an animal detect information.
- A feeding structure is matched to the kind of food an animal gets.
- Movement structures can help an animal escape danger or reach food.
- A shell is an example of a protection structure.
- Evidence should name a structure and explain its function.
- Several examples usually make an argument stronger than one example.
- Structure and function are linked because body parts have jobs.
What Success Looks Like
- Student names two animals and two structures correctly.
- Student explains how each structure helps with a real job.
- Student connects the examples back to the larger claim about animal structures.
Sample acceptable short response
“A hawk’s hooked beak helps it tear food, which supports survival. A fish’s fins help it swim to food and away from danger. These examples show that animal structures help them live by doing important jobs.”
