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4CV Plants & Animals
Plants & Animals 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| invertebrate | an organism that does not have a backbone |
| vertebrate | an organism that has a backbone |
| fossil | The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past |
| fish | A cold-blooded vertebrate that lives in the water, breathes with gills, and has fins |
| bird | A warm-blooded vertebrate that is covered in feathers, breathes through lungs and lays hard-shelled eggs |
| amphibian | A cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water |
| reptile | A cold-blooded vertebrate that lays eggs and has lungs and scaly skin. |
| mammal | A warm-blooded vertebrate that has hair and feeds its young milk. |
| trait | A characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes. |
| classify | to group or label in an organized way |
| leaves | The flat plant structure used collect sunlight for photosynthesis |
| seed | The plant structure that contains a young plant inside a protective covering |
| flowering plants | plants that produce flowers and pollen whose seeds are protected by fruits and nuts. |
| Coniferous plants | non-flowering plants that grow cones instead of flowers to make seeds |
| Spore | a small cell that grows into a new plant that are found in ferns and mosses |
| Reproduce | to make more of the same kind |
| Herbivore | an organism that eats only plants |
| Omnivore | an organism that eats both plants and animals |
| Carnivore | an organism that eats animals |
| Inherited Trait | a characteristic passed on from a parent to an offspring like eye or fur color |
| Acquired Trait | a characteristic that a living thing gets during its lifetime |
| Organism | a living thing |
| Warm-blooded Animals | animal whose body temperature remains the same regardless of the temperature around them |
| Cold-blooded Animals | animal whose temperature is the same as their environment |
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