Living Things
Egg-nymph-adult grasshopper
What is a life cycle?
Sugary liquid produced by flowers.
What is nectar?
A grassy, windy, wide-open space.
What is a grassland?
Make new living things like themselves.
What is reproduce?
Living things that feed off other things and (most) are able to move.
What are animals?
When an animal changes from one shape/form to another as it matures.
What is complete metamorphosis?
When a seed grows into a new plant.
What is germinate?
The order that animals feed on plants and other animals.
What is a food chain?
A living thing that doesn't move and feeds on dead or living matter.
What is a fungus?
What causes Earth to heat up and the temperature to rise.
What is global warming?
This comes from the food living things make or take in from outside.
What is energy?
A living thing that doesn't make its own food.
What is a consumer?
An area in which many plants and animals interact.
What is an ecosystem?
An underground stem.
What is a tuber?
Group of animals without backbones.
What are invertebrates?
They are covered with scales, and some lay eggs with leathery shells.
What are reptiles?
When plants use sunlight to make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
A type of forest found in cool mountain regions where trees with green needles grow year-round.
What is a taiga forest?
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
A lake is this for a fish.
What is a habitat?
Five characteristics of living things.
What are made of cells, highly organized, respond to their environment, grow & develop, and reproduce?
Type of root that grows from the lower stem into the soil to help support the plant stem.
What is a prop root?
The area between the high- and low-tide zones.
What is the intertidal zone?
An underwater community found in shallow tropical seas.
What is a coral reef?
Any living thing that is not a plant, an animal, a fungus, or a bacterium.
What is a protist?