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SFS Vocabulary
Structure, Function, and Survival Words to Know!
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| adaptation | a structure or behavior that helps an organism survive in its surroundings |
| amphibian | a vertebrate animal that has moist skin and lays eggs; young live in water and breathe with gills, and adults live on land and breathe with lungs and skin |
| arachnid | an animal with eight legs and two body segments (i.e. spiders, scorpions, ticks, and mites) |
| behavior | anything that an organism does |
| behavioral characteristic | pertaining to anything an organism does |
| bird | a vertebrate animal that has feathers, lightweight bones, wings, breathes air, and lays eggs with a hard shell |
| camouflage | an adaptation that allows an animal to blend in with its surroundings (i.e. shape, color, pattern) |
| classification | grouping of organisms by their characteristics |
| dichotomous key | a sequence of steps that allows the identification of a living thing |
| enivronment | the surroundings, including both living and nonliving factors, that an organism lives in |
| exoskeleton | a hard outer covering that protects an animal’s soft body parts inside |
| external | coming from a source outside of the organism |
| external cue | a piece of information coming from outside of the organism that tells the organism to behave or respond a certain way |
| fish | a vertebrate animal that lives in water, has scales or rough skin, has fins, and breathes with gills |
| habitat | the environment where an organism lives |
| hibernation | a deep, sleep-like state when an animal’s body processes slow down |
| information | knowledge or facts learned |
| insect | an invertebrate animal that has an exoskeleton, a three-segmented body, six legs, and undergoes metamorphosis and lays eggs |
| internal | coming from a source inside of the organism |
| internal cue | a piece of information coming from inside of the organism that tells the organism to behave or respond a certain way |
| invertebrate | an animal that does not have a backbone (i.e. sponges,worms, snails, jellyfish, clams,starfish, crabs, insects, and spiders) |
| life cycle | the stages of growth and development that an organism goes through, including birth, life, reproduction, and death; different organisms have slight differences in the stages of life |
| light | a form of energy that can be seen by the human eye and allows objects to be seen |
| mammal | a vertebrate animal that has hair or fur, gives birth to live young, nurses its young with milk, and breathes air with lungs |
| mealworm | the larval stage of a darkling beetle; not actually a worm |
| mimicry | when an animal or plant resembles another creature or inanimate object, either for defense or to gain other advantages |
| migration | seasonal movement of animals from one place to another |
| nocturnal | most active at night |
| organism | a living thing |
| reptile | a vertebrate animal that has dry, leathered skin or scales, breathes air with lungs, and lays eggs with leathery shells or gives birth to live young |
| respond | to react to something that is sensed in the environment |
| response | something an organism does when it senses a stimulus; a reaction to something that happens in the environment |
| savanna | a rolling grassland biome scattered with shrubs and isolated trees |
| sense | take in information from the environment (i.e. see, hear, smell, touch, taste) |
| sight | the sense of awareness of light or color produced by eyes |
| skeleton | the internal skeleton of a vertebrate (also known as: endoskeleton) |
| stimulus | something that happens in the environment that makes an organism act in a certain way |
| survival | to continue to live or stay alive |
| vertebrate | an animal that has a backbone (i.e. mammal, bird, reptile, amphibian, or fish) |
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