Vocabulary
Processes
Animal Kingdom
Animals
Text features
100

The hairy animal group that humans  under.

What are mammals?

100

I am a process of organizing animal groups based on particular characteristics.

What is Classificaton?

100

I am an animal with a backbone.

What is a vertebrate?

100

I am an aquatic animal with gills and fins, and I have a body covered in scales.

What is a fish?

100

I’m usually found near the beginning. I lists the chapters and the pages numbers where they can be found.

What is the Table of contents?

200

A natural home or environment where plant, animal, or other living thing.

What is a habitat?

200

I help organize steps. I use transition words like “First, next, and then.

What are sequence words?

200

I am an animal without a backbone.

What is an invertebrate?

200

I am a reptile from South America. I am a vertebrate. I am the largest of my kind.

What is an anaconda?

200

I am usually near the end. I list the definitions of words.

What is the glossary?

300

I stay awake at night time and sleep during the day.

What is nocturnal?

300

I am the process of collecting information that helps scientists and scholars discover new facts.

What is research?

300

I am an animal whose body temperature is maintained by my surroundings. It is not constant.

What is a cold-blooded animal?

300

I am the larva that hatches from the egg of an adult female frog. 

What is a tadpole?

300

I am a photo that comes with a statement to describe myself.

What are captions and images?

400

A major group of living things based on shared characteristics.

What is a Kingdom?

400

Using your senses or tools to gather information.

What is an observation?

400

I am an animal whose body temperature is constant and does not depend on the temperature of my surroundings.

What is a warm-blooded animal?

400

I am an amphibian with suction cups to help me climb trees. My home is often in danger because of logging and farming.

What is a tree frog?

400

I am your signal inside of a text that lets you know there is and important vocabulary word to identify.

What is bold print?

500

I am a person with a high level of knowledge about he natural world based on facts learned through observation and experiments. I classify animals into groups according to heir characteristics. 

What is a taxonomist?

500

From egg to larva. From caterpillar to cocoon. I am the process that lets creatures like butterflies and frogs completely change form as they grow.

What is metamorphosis?

500

I am an animal that can live both on land and in water.

What is an amphibian?

500

I am an amphibian from the rainforests of Central and South America. Don’t let the bright colors fool you, I am tiny but deadly when I secrete toxins that the natives used for their darts.

What is a poison dart frog?

500

I am not your average photo. I come with demonstrations in my picture.

What is a diagram?