Question | Answer |
Algae- | any plant or plantlike organism (as a seaweed) that includes forms mostly growing in water, lacking a system of vessels for carrying fluids, and often having chlorophyll masked by brown or red coloring matter |
Aquarium- | a container (as a glass tank) in which living water animals or plants are kept |
consumer- | a plant, animal or person that requires complex organic compounds for food which it obtains by preying on other living things or eating particles of organic matter |
Cricket- | any of a family of leaping insects related to the grasshoppers and having leathery forewings used by the males to produce a chirping sound |
dependence- | something on which one relies |
duckweed- | a tiny stemless plant that floats without attachment on the surface of a body of still water |
ecosystem- | system made up of an ecological community of living things interacting with their environment especially under natural conditions |
elodea- | any of a small genus of American herbs with leafy stems that live underwater |
environment- | the whole complex of factors (as soil, climate, and living things) that influence the form and the ability to survive of a plant or animal or ecological community |
experiment- | a procedure or operation carried out under controlled conditions in order to discover something, to test a hypothesis, or to serve as an example |
germination- | the prosess of a seed turning into a plant |
isopod- | any of a large order of small crustaceans (as a wood louse) with a thorax made up of seven segments of which each bears a pair of legs |
material- | the elements or substance of which something is made or can be made |
moquito fish- | a fish that feeds on insect larvae, especialy mosquitos |
natural- | of, relating to, or following the usual events and happenings of nature or the physical world |
observe- | to make a scientific observation of |
organism- | an individual living thing that carries on the activities of life by means of organs which have separate functions but are dependent on each other : a living person, plant, or animal |
pollution- | the action of polluting |
producer- | a living thing (as a green plant) that makes its food from simple inorganic substances (as carbon dioxide and nitrogen) and many of which are food sources for other organisms -- compare |
terrarium- | a transparent enclosure used for keeping and observing small animals and plants indoors |