The extreme change that happens to an animal's body structure and habits as it becomes an adult.
What is metamorphosis?
100
A consumer that eats only plants.
What is an herbivore?
100
Fish, amphibians and reptiles are this type of vertebrate.
What is cold blooded?
100
A very young frog or toad in the larval stage when it lives in water and has gills, a long tail and no limbs.
What is a tadpole?
100
The path by which energy passes from one living thing to another.
What is a food chain?
200
Plant communities that grow from the sun's energy.
What are producers?
200
A stage between the larva and the adult stage in the development of many insects.
What is pupa?
200
Dry scaly skin, tough protective egg shells, claws and lungs are all characteristics of this type of vertebrate.
What are reptiles?
200
The stage in development of butterflies between larva and adult.
What is chrysalis?
200
Animals who eat plants or other animals.
What are consumers?
300
Animals without backbones.
What are invertebrates?
300
Grouping by likenesses or differences.
What is classification?
300
Most numerous group of animal on Earth.
What are arthropods?
300
Butterfly eggs hatch into this, which is the larva form of a butterfly.
What is a caterpillar?
300
The bottom level of a food chain.
What are producers?
400
A tree diagram which has two branches at every separation point.
What is dichotomous key?
400
Organisms that break down dead plants and animals into smaller pieces that can be used again by living things to grow.
What are decomposers?
400
Soft bodies, specialized organs, some have shells, some have tentacles.
What are mollusks?
400
In this stage the almost mature frog breathes with lungs and still has some of its tail.
What is a froglet?
400
The process by which green plants form carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water in the presence of light.
What is photosynthesis?
500
A trait that develops during one's lifetime, either due to the environment or the individual's interest.
What is an acquired trait?
500
A trait that is passed down from one generation to the next.
What is an inherited trait?
500
Echinoderms, sponges and cnidarians all have this in common.
What is habitat (living in water)?
500
Wormlike early form of an insect from the time it leaves the egg until it becomes a pupa or adult.
What is larva?
500
It must be made up of cells. It must need water and food in order to live. It must grow. It must be able to reproduce itself. It must be able to respond to changes in the place where it lives.