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Plant Growth and Ada
definitions
Question | Answer |
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Living things | Organism |
Way organisms make more of their own kind | Reproduction |
Made up of everything that surrounds an organism | Environment |
To react | Respond |
Tiny boxlike shapes-basic building blocks of life | Cell |
Naturally occurring substance that is neither plant nor animal | Mineral |
Part of the plant that grows underground | Root |
Supports the plant | Stem |
The main food-making part of the plant | Leaf |
The ability to do work | Energy |
Gas that is in air and water | Oxygen |
All the stages in an organism's life | Life cycle |
Young plant just beginning to grow | Embryo |
Passing of characteristics from parent to offspring | Heredity |
Plants that produce seeds in cones | Conifers |
Plants that produce seeds in flowers | Flowering plants |
A powdery material needed by the eggs of flowers to make seeds | Pollen |
All living things and nonliving things in an environment and all their interactions | Ecosystem |
All living things in an ecosystem | Community |
All the members of a single type of organism | Population |
A living thing's home | Habitat |
The process of passing oxygen and carbon dioxide from one population to another in both water and land habitats | Carbon dixoxide and oxygen cycles |
Animals that hunt for food | Predators |
The animals that predators hunt and eat | Prey |
Eat animals that are already dead | Scavenger |
Organism that lives on or inside another organism | Parasite |
The struggle among organism for water, food, space and oxygen | Competition |
Job or role an organism has in an ecosystem | Niche |
A special characteristic that helps an organism survive | Adaptation |
An adaptation that allows an organism to blend in with its environment (not easily see) | Camouflage |