Vocab Terms
What is an organism?
any living thing
Name an animal that goes through metamorphosis
Frogs or butterflies
what is an offspring?
a young organism produced by parents
what does survive mean?
to stay alive
What is the surrounding area that contains living and non living things
Environment
What is a life cycle?
stages of a living thing's life
Part of a plant that protects the material that sprouts into a new plant
a seed
What is a physical trait?
a feature of a living thing's body
No we can also inherit behavioral traits
What is a helpful trait in a plant?
A spiky cactus in the desert keeps its water
The part of the life cycle when a young animal is developing into an adult
Adolescence
The process of how plants with flowers reproduce
pollination
What does it mean to inherit a trait ?
to receive a feature from a parent
What is an example of a helpful trait?
a spiky plant, seeing at night, sharp claws, thick hair, webbed feet, big beak, soft skin
What does it mean when a plant or animal is rare?
that it is not found in large numbers
What process of the life cycle makes new organisms?
reproduction
How nonflowering plants reproduce
spores
What is a species?
a group of similar individuals that can reproduce together
What is an advantage?
a trait or factor that helps an organism
what does it mean to camouflage?
when an organism uses it's color patten to blend in with it's surroundings
What is a change of form during the life cycle of some animals?
metamorphosis
What are the stages in the life plant cycle?
germination, growth, reproduction, death.
Why would siblings share identical or similar traits?
because they have the same parents
What kind of traits help reproduction?
Facial hair, feather colors, and horns
What does it mean to be extinct?
having no living members left in a species
What is germination?
When a seed begins to grow
What are the stages of the animal life cycle?
birth, growth, reproduction, and death
Who was Gregor Mendel
Austrian botanist who discovered how traits are inherited through pea plants
What is a group of single type of organisms living in the same place at the same time?
population
what is a factor that could make a species go extinct?
climate/pollution/weather