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Vocabulary Terms
Living Things
Where do Organisms live?
Grouping Organisms
Classification of
Plants & Animals
100

Parts of Earth that can support living things.

What is a habitat?

100
Each organism ___________ with other organisms in the biosphere?
What is interacts?
100
Types of plants normally found in a desert.
What are plants with spiny leaves and a thick stem?
100
The group in which organisms have similar characteristics, but can not mate.
What is Genus?
100
In addition to the structure of an organism and how it reproduces, this is also how scientists classify organisms.
What is how they feed?
200
A characteristic that enables an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is adaptation?
200
The number of parts the members of the echinoderm phlyum have.
What is five?
200
The environment in which fungi prefer to grow.
What is a damp forest floor?
200
Gymnosperms and this type of plant produce seeds.
What are angiosperms?
200
An organism that is many-celled, connected by a system of strands, and absorbs nutrients from other organisms.
What is fungi?
300
A group of very similar organisms whose members can mate with one another and produce offspring that are able to produce offspring.
What is species?
300
What bacteria cells do not have.
What is the nucleus?
300
The number of organisms in the Earth's biosphere.
What is nearly 2 million?
300
The name of the first group into which scientists have placed organisms. It is also the most diverse group.
What is Kingdom?
300
Animals that have a body temperature that stays at a certain temperature no matter the outside temperature.
What is warm-blooded animals?
400
The grouping of things according to their similarities.
What is classification?
400
Smaller than vascular plants.
What are nonvascular plants?
400
Examples would be deserts, oceans, fields, beaches, forests, backyards and even sidewalks of the busiest streets.
What is the environment?
400
The six kingdoms.
What are Archebacteria, Eubacteria, Protists, Fungi, Plants, and Animals?
400
They are easier to study.
Why scientists classify organisms?
500

Single-celled organisms that do not have a nucleus.

What are bacteria?

500
The largest percentage of animals on the planet Earth.
What are animals without backbones?
500
If the Earth were shrunk to the size of an apple the thickness that the biosphere would be.
What is the thickness of the apple's skin?
500
The order of how organisms grouped, from largest to smallest.
What is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus and Species?
500
This plant has cells that form tubes for carrying water and nutrients throughout the plants.
What is a vascular plant?