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Plant Growth and Ada
definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Living things | Organism |
| Way organisms make more of their own kind | Reproduction |
| Made up of everything that surrounds an organism | Environment |
| To react | Respond |
| Tiny boxlike shapes-basic building blocks of life | Cell |
| Naturally occurring substance that is neither plant nor animal | Mineral |
| Part of the plant that grows underground | Root |
| Supports the plant | Stem |
| The main food-making part of the plant | Leaf |
| The ability to do work | Energy |
| Gas that is in air and water | Oxygen |
| All the stages in an organism's life | Life cycle |
| Young plant just beginning to grow | Embryo |
| Passing of characteristics from parent to offspring | Heredity |
| Plants that produce seeds in cones | Conifers |
| Plants that produce seeds in flowers | Flowering plants |
| A powdery material needed by the eggs of flowers to make seeds | Pollen |
| All living things and nonliving things in an environment and all their interactions | Ecosystem |
| All living things in an ecosystem | Community |
| All the members of a single type of organism | Population |
| A living thing's home | Habitat |
| The process of passing oxygen and carbon dioxide from one population to another in both water and land habitats | Carbon dixoxide and oxygen cycles |
| Animals that hunt for food | Predators |
| The animals that predators hunt and eat | Prey |
| Eat animals that are already dead | Scavenger |
| Organism that lives on or inside another organism | Parasite |
| The struggle among organism for water, food, space and oxygen | Competition |
| Job or role an organism has in an ecosystem | Niche |
| A special characteristic that helps an organism survive | Adaptation |
| An adaptation that allows an organism to blend in with its environment (not easily see) | Camouflage |