ANIMAL CLASSIFICATION
These animals have fur or hair and feed their babies mother's milk.
What are mammals?
This part of the plant absorbs water and nutrients from the soil.
What is the root?
This organ pumps blood throughout your entire body.
What is the heart?
The first stage of most animal and plant life cycles.
What is the egg (or seed)?
The job or purpose that a body part performs.
What is function?
Animals with a backbone are called this.
What are vertebrates?
This is where food production occurs in plants through photosynthesis.
What is the leaf (or needle)?
These organs help you breathe air and take in oxygen.
What are the lungs?
A caterpillar is this stage of complete metamorphosis.
What is the larva?
This is a skeleton found on the outside of an animal's body, like in arthropods.
What is an exoskeleton?
This group of animals is born in water with gills but develops lungs and moves to land as adults.
What are amphibians?
The male reproductive part of a flower that produces pollen.
What is the stamen?
This organ controls all body functions and helps you think.
What is the brain?
This is the developing baby inside an egg or inside its mother.
What is an embryo?
Fish use these to breathe underwater, while most land animals use lungs.
What are gills?
Insects, spiders, and crabs belong to this group that has an exoskeleton and segmented bodies with jointed legs.
What are arthropods?
This is the process where pollen moves from the stamen to the pistil.
What is pollination?
These two organs filter waste from your blood, and then urine is stored in this organ before leaving the body.
What are the kidneys and bladder?
These are the four stages of complete metamorphosis in order.
What are egg, larva, pupa, and adult?
This means to take in or soak up something, like roots absorbing water.
What is absorb?
These are the five main groups of vertebrate animals.
What are mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians?
These are the four main parts that all flowering plants have.
What are roots, stems, leaves, and flowers?
These are the five sensory organs that help you gather information about your environment.
What are eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin?
A young plant that has just sprouted from a seed is called this, while a young person going through physical changes is called this.
What is a seedling and an adolescent?
Your bones provide this for your body, while your muscles work with bones to help you move.
What is support (or structure)?