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5th Grade Review
Review Words Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Classify | to put things into groups |
| Kingdom | is the highest most general group of organisms |
| Phylum | the level of classification of living things below kingdom |
| Class | the level of classification below phylum |
| Species | the lowest level of classification |
| Vertebrates | an animal with a backbone |
| Invertebrate | an animal without a backbone |
| Dichotomous key | is a tool that allows the user to determine the identity of items in the natural world. |
| Vascular tissues | move food and water around the plant to help it grow |
| Chloroplast | absorbs energy from sunlight to produce carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water during photosynthesis |
| Chlorophyll | green colored matter found in chloroplasts of plants |
| Photosynthesis | the process by which plants use light energy to make sugars |
| Purpose | State the problem, this can be in the form of a question. |
| Research | Find out about the topic using books and/or Internet. |
| Hypothesis | Predict the answer to the problem. |
| Experiment | Develop a procedure to test your hypothesis. |
| Analysis | Record the results of your experiment. |
| Conclusion | Compare your hypothesis to your experiments results. |
| Xylem | Tubes in vascular plants that carry water and other materials. |
| Phloem | Tubes in vascular plants that carry sugar away from the leaves. |
| Tropism | A way that plants change their growth because of something outside of them. |
| Growth Hormone | A chemical that causes more cells to grow and helps cells grow larger. |
| Ally | A friend who helps in a fight |
| Conquest | Capture or taking of something by force |
| Expedition | Journey made for a special purpose |
| Latitude | Distance north and south of the equator, measured in degrees |
| Longitude | Distance east of west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees |
| Society | Group of people forming a community. |
| Missionary | Person who teaches his or her religion to others who have different beliefs. |
| Colony | Settlement far from the country that rules it. |
| Colonist | Person who lives in a colony |
| Columbian Exchange | Movement of people, animals, plants, diseases, and ways of life between the Eastern Hemisphere and Western |
| Ecosystem | all living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions |
| Population | a group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time |
| Community | different populations in a certain area |
| Niche | a role in an ecosystem, which includes what type of food the organism takes in, how it gets its food, and which of the other species use the organism as food |
| Habitat | a place that provides all the things an organism needs to live |
| Predator | an animal that hunts and eats another animal for energy |
| Prey | an animal that is hunted by another animal for food |
| Producer | plants and some other organisms that make their own food for energy |
| Consumer | organisms that can’t make their own food, but get their energy from producers or other consumers. |
| Pollution | any substance that harms or damages the environment |
| Conservation | an attempt to protect or preserve an environment from changes that can be harmful to it |
| Organism | an individual animal, plant, or single—celled life form |
| Respire | making food into energy |
| Biotic | all living organisms in an ecosystem |
| Abiotic | the name given to non |
| Biome | large ecosystems with the same climate and organisms |
| Competition | the struggle of organisms for the same resources needed for survival |
| Food chain | a series of steps by which energy moves from one type of living thing to another |
| Ecology | the study of organisms and their interactions with one another and with the physical and chemical environment around them |
| Food web | a diagram that combines many food chains into one diagram. It is used to see how different food chains are connected in an ecosystem. |
| Symbiosis | a long |
| Environment | all of the conditions surrounding an organism. These conditions meet the needs of the organism |
| Nutrition | needing food and or minerals for respiration |
| Reproduce | the ability to make offspring. This keeps the species in existence |
| Sensitive | responding and reacting to the environment |
| Growth | becoming larger or stronger |
| Excrete | getting rid of waste |
| Movement | the ability to move |
| Regulation | limits that are put on how many animals a person can hunt or fish for |
| Glucose | a sugar that is an important energy source for living organisms |
| Carrying capacity | the number of organisms that can live in a habitat |
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