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A-1animal vocab
SCIENCE 6 ANIMAL VOCABULARY
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| mammal | hair, milk, well-developed brain, warm-blooded |
| bird | feathers, wings, hollow bones, warm-blooded |
| producer | makes its own food and provides food for another |
| symbiosis | two organisms living together for the mutual benefit of each other |
| omnivore | consumes both plant and animal matter |
| ecosystem | an area where plants, animals and the environment (soil/water) interact |
| hibernation | spending the winter in a dormant condition |
| reptile | air-breathing, cold-blooded vertebrate, dry scales or bony plates, well-developed lungs, egg with tough shell |
| amphibian | cold-blooded vertebrate, aquatic young, adults with lungs, lay eggs in water or moist ground |
| parasite | an organism living on another organism |
| carnivore | eats flesh |
| community | a group of animals and plants living together |
| biome | a major ecological environment including climate (ex. tundra, desert, rain forest) |
| fish | cold-blooded, aquatic with gills, may be jawless, cartilage, or bony |
| consumer | does not make its own food, but eats another plant or animal |
| host | a living animal or plant from which a parasite obtains nutrition |
| herbivore | plant-eater |
| habitat | natural environment for the life and growth of an organism |
| estivation | to spend the summer in a dormant state |
| crepuscular | active at dawn and dusk |
| predator | an animal that attacks another for food |
| diurnal | active during the day |
| carrion | carcasses of dead animals eaten by scavengers |
| insectivore | eats insects |
| cartilage fish | cold-blooded vertebrate with a soft, flexible skeleton |
| nocturnal | active at nite |