Biology Vocab
All living things.
What is an organism?
This fruit was grown to be shaped like a square and is sold for $800!
What is a square watermelon?
This organism is a strong swimmer and a predator. It can smell blood from up to around a quarter of a mile away!
What is a shark?
The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
What is Biodiversity?
The study of nature and how it works.
What is Physics?
Anything you can observe about an organism including the way it looks and acts.
What is a trait?
This fruit was grown to have a bright red color and be the size of a ping pong ball. It is sold for $1,400!
What is a grape? (Ruby Roman Grape)
This organism is umbrella shaped with long tentacles that sting when touched.
What is a jellyfish?
This is the most biodiverse environment in the world. It is full of tall, mostly evergreen trees, and a high amount of rainfall
What is the Rainforest?
This is what is created by a push or pull.
What is a force?
Differences.
What is Variation?
This vegetable used to be smaller and yellow but are now long and purple. They used to resemble an egg.
What is an eggplant?
A key organism for underwater ecosystems - supplying food, shelter, and protection to many fish.
What is Corral?
This salt water environment is full of bright colored reef-building corals.
What is the coral reef?
(or Great Barrier Reef)
When dominoes are pushed down by a hand, this is the object BEING MOVED.
What are dominoes?
A group of closely related organisms that are very similar to each other.
What is species?
This fruit used to have many seeds and heart shaped swirls inside. Now, their seeds are edible and they are juicy and sweet!
What are watermelons?
These birds can be found in Africa and in the arctic. They have black and white fur.
What are penguins?
A place where organisms make a home.
What is a habitat?
When dominoes are pushed down by a hand, this is the object CREATING THE FORCE.
What is a hand?
The process of slowly changing over time to fit into an environment.
What is adapting or evolving?
This vegetable is now the color orange because orange was a man in Denmark's favorite color. It used to be very thin, white, and looked like a root.
What is a carrot?
This is an exhibit that resembles a salt water environment with long swaying seaweed.
(HINT: Plankton from Spongebob eats a lot of this!)
What is a Kelp Forest?
A community of organisms and their environment.
What is an Ecosystem?
One change makes another change happen, which makes another change happen.
What is a chain reaction?