Mill Creek M.S. Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Organism | A living thing. |
Unicellular | A type of organism that is made up of a single cell. |
Multicellular | A type of organism that is made up of many cells. |
Reproduction | The production of offspring that are similar to the parents. |
Growth | When you're getting bigger. |
Development | To get more complex and better. |
Homeostasis | The maintenance of stable internal conditions despite changes in the surroundings. |
Autotrophs | An organism that makes its own food. |
Heterotrophs | An organism that cannot make their own food. |
Spontaneous Generation | The mistaken idea that living things arise from non-living sources. |
Taxonomy | The scientific study of how living things are classified |
Binomial Nomenclature | The system where they name organisms like species and genes. |
Stimulus | A change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organisms to react. |
Classification | The process of grouping things based on their simularities. |
Genus | A classification grouping that consists of a number of a similar, closely related species. |
Species | A group of similar organisms that can mate and produce, by offspring. |
Vertebrate | An organism that has a backbone. |
Invertebrate | An organism that does not have a backbone. |
Cold-blooded | An organism whose body temperature changes with the environment--example: frog |
Warm-blooded | An organism whose internal conditions stay at a constant temperature. |
Taxonomic Key | The tool for identifying organisms that is based on a series of paired statements describing physical characteristics. |
Fish | A cold-blooded vertabrate that has gills, scales, and fins. |
Amphibian | Frogs, fish, and other animals in water. |
Reptile | Reptiles have scales, like snakes and crocodiles. |
Birds | Any warm-blooded vertebrate having their bodies covered in feathers, wings, scaly legs, beak, no teeth, and bears their young in a hard shell. |
Mammal | Any vertebrate having a body covered more or less with hair, nourish their young with milk from mammary glands, and give birth to live young. |
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