Plant Structures
Animal Structures
Vocabulary
100

What plant structure typically lives underground?

Roots support the plant, absorb water and nutrients from the soil.

100

What is the EXOSKELETON of an animal?

The hard OUTER covering that protects it from other animals

100

What are tiny detectors in your body that help you see, hear, smell, taste, and feel things around you?

Sensory Receptors

200

What structure supports growth by TRANSPORTING water and nutrients?

the STEM

200
After an animal swallows the food travels to what structure?
Stomach
200

What is information that your body receives through your senses, like seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and feeling?

Sensory input

300

What plant structure supports growth by taking in sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide and makes food?

Leaves

300

What is the function of the eye in animals?

to provide vision; to see

300

What is the soft outer covering of your body that helps protect you and allows you to feel things when you touch them?

the skin

400
What structure holds the plant up to allow it to get sunlight?
Stem
400

Which helps to regulate body temperature?

lungs, skin, legs

SKIN

400

What is anything that causes a reaction in your body, like a loud noise making you jump or a sweet smell making you hungry?

Stimulus

500

What structure attracts pollinators and reproduces other plants?

the FLOWER

500

This structure allows duck to swim faster and get to their food.

Webbed feet

500

What is a group of parts that work together to perform a specific job or function?

System
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