5 Pictures for Scavenger Hunt

Cuticle Layer of a Plant (Number 11)



The cuticle layer of a plant is also called the cuticula. The cuticle layer is the outer, noncellular layer of the arthropod integument, composed of a mixture of chitin and protein and commonly containing other hardening substances as well.

Hermaphrodite (Number 12)

A person or animal having both male and female sex organs or other sexual characteristics, either abnormally or naturally, such as an assassin snail, like the one show in the picture. (Assassin snail is striped, one on wall and one on rocks.) Spores (Number 13)  A spore is a small, usually single-celled reproductive body that is highly resistant to desiccation and heat and is capable of growing into a new organism, produced especially by certain bacteria, fungi, algae, and nonflowering plants. A fern is an example of a spore, like the one shown in the picture. Heterotroph (Number 14) Heterotrophs are the consumers in the food chain, particularly the herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. All animals, some fungi and most bacteria are heterotrophs. They are not capable of producing their own food, such as a cat. Therefore, they obtain their energy requirements by feeding on organic matter or another organism.    

Autotroph (Number 15)

Autotrophs are the producers in a food chain, such as plants on land or algae in water. Autotrophs may be photoautotrophs or chemoautotrophs. This a green plant in the picture that is capable of making nutritive organic molecues from inorganic sources.