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5th Grade
Change, Adaptation and Survival
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| inherited | received one characteristic from a parent |
| interact | act together |
| learned | to gain by experience |
| life cycle | the stages that an organism passes through |
| variable | something that can be changed and might affect the outcome of an experiment |
| viable | able to live and grow |
| omnivore | an organism that eats both plants and animals |
| optimum | the best |
| organism | any living thing, including plants and animals |
| processes | continuous actions or operations |
| habitat | an area that provides an animal or plant with its basic needs |
| herbivore | an organism that feeds on vegetation |
| indicator | an object, material, or organism that tests for the presence, absence, or amount of some substance sample |
| influence | the action or process of producing effects |
| producer | an organism that creates its own energy, usually be photosynthesis |
| reproduce | to make more offspring of the same species from a parent organism(s) |
| species | a group of the same kind of organisms |
| survival | something that survives or remains alive |
| likenesses | being alike; a representation |
| niche | the specific role an organism plays in an ecosystem |
| nitrogen cycle | the continuous movement of nitrogen between organisms, their surroundings and the atmosphere |
| offspring | children or young of a parent; a parent's child |
| environmental factor | one part of the environment that can be living or nonliving |
| food chain | a description of the feeding sequence of the living part of an ecosystem |
| food web | a diagram illustrating the feeding relationships between all of the plants and animals in an ecosystem |
| germinate | the beginning of seed development after a period of dormancy; the process of starting to grow |
| decomposer | an organism that breaks down plant and animal material into simple chemicals that can be reused in the ecosystem |
| drought | a long period of extremely low amounts of rainfall |
| ecosystem | the interaction of the physical environment (nonliving) and the living environment |
| environment | everything that surrounds and influences organisms |
| carnivore | an organism that consumes other animals or insects |
| consumer | an organism that cannot make its own food and obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
| controlled experiment | an investigation in which only one variable is changed at a time |
| cycle | any motion of an object, sequence or process that repeats itself |
| adaptation | a structure (body part) or function of an organism that helps it to survive in its environment |
| camouflage | color, tones, patterns, shapes or behavior that enable an organism to blend in with its surroundings |
| carbon cycle | the continuous movement of carbon dioxide between organisms and the atmosphere |
| carbon dioxide | a colorless, odorless gas present in the atmosphere, exhaled by animals and plants during respiration and used by plants in photosynthesis |
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