| Question |
Answer |
| a special trait that helps an organism survive |
ADAPTATION |
| the smallest unit of living matter |
ANIMAL CELL |
| an adaptation by which an animal can hide by blending in with its surrounding |
CAMOUFLAGE |
| a consumer that eats only animals |
CARNIVORE |
| a green substance in plant cells that helps plants make food by trapping the Sun's energy |
CHLOROPHYLL |
| to place things that share properties |
CLASSIFY |
| to share information |
COMMUNICATE |
| the living part of an ecosystem |
COMMUNITY |
| point out similarities |
COMPARE |
| communicate, make a model, or predict what is going to happen in a scientific experiment |
HYPOTHESIS |
| to put or fit together |
CONSTRUCT |
| any organism that eats the food producers make |
CONSUMER |
| point out differences |
CONTRAST |
| to make or design |
CREATE |
| an organism that breaks down wastes and the remains of other organisms |
DECOMPOSER |
| facts to support or help draw conclusions |
DATA |
| a plan, form in the mind |
DESIGN |
| the living and nonliving things in an environment and all their interactions |
ECOSYSTEM |
| in danger of extinction |
ENDANGERED |
| all the surrounding things, conditions, and influences affecting the growth of living things |
ENVIRONMENT |
| to perform a test to support or disprove a hypothesis |
EXPERIMENT |
| an organism no longer alive on Earth |
EXTINCT |
| anything that shows what is true and what is not: facts, proof |
EVIDENCE |
| the joining of a female cell and male cell to produce a fertilized egg |
FERTILIZATION |
| the set of steps in which organisms get the food they need to survive |
FOOD CHAIN |
| the sprouting of seed into a new plant |
GERMINATION |
| the home of an organism |
HABITAT |
| a consumer that eats only plants |
HERBIVORE |
| a pattern of behavior that requires no thinking because it is programmed into an animal's brain |
INSTINCT |
| examine closely |
INVESTIGATE |
| to form an idea from facts or observations |
INFER |
| a behavior that is inborn, not learned |
INHERITED BEHAVIOR |
| a behavior that an organism doesn't begin life with |
LEARNED BEHAVIOR |
| the food making part of the plant, responsible for performing photosynthesis |
LEAVES |
| the stages of growth and change of an organism's life |
LIFE CYCLE |
| a process of changes in form during an animal's development |
METAMORPHOSIS |
| when one organism imitates the traits of another |
MIMICRY |
| to use one or more of the senses to identify or learn about or event |
OBSERVE |
| a consumer that eats both plants and animals |
OMNIVORE |
| a living thing that carries out five basic life functions on its own |
ORGANISM |
| a part of the air that is needed by most plants and animals to live |
OXYGEN |
| a process in plants that uses energy from sunlight to make food from water and carbon dioxide |
PHOTOSYNTHESIS |
| the smallest unit of living matter |
PLANT CELL |
| the transfer of a flower's pollen from another pistil |
POLLINATION |
| one type of organism living in an area |
POPULATION |
| to state possible results of an event or experiment |
PREDICT |
| steps or direction to follow in a scientific experiment |
PROCEDURE |
| an organism, such as a plant, that makes food |
PRODUCER |
| the making of offspring |
REPRODUCTION |
| the using and releasing of energy in a cell |
RESPIRATION |
| answers gathered from a scientific experiment |
RESULTS |
| the part of the plant that absorbs water and nutrients from the soil, also anchors the plant in place |
ROOTS |
| the part of the plant that acts as a highway, transporting water and nutrients from the roots to the leaves, also supports the flower |
STEMS |
| a plant's release of excess water vapor through the stomata on the underside of its leaves |
TRANSPIRATION |
| used to identify and separate things in an experiment that can be changed or controlled |
VARIABLE |