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Inherited Trait Organism
Learned Behavior Offspring
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A characteristic that is passed from parents to their offspring (child).
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New organisms (children) that come from parent organisms.
A behavior that an animal develops by observing other animals or by being taught.
A living thing; plant or animal.
Omnivore Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Cycle
Trait Heredity
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An animal that eats both plants and animals.
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The passing of traits from parent to offspring.
A physical characteristic of an organism.
The movement of carbon dioxide and oxygen between organisms and the air. Plants release oxygen and animals (humans) release carbon dioxide.
Species ReproductionReproduction
Niche Migration
Definition Picture Definition PictureA group of organisms of the same kind that can mate and produce offspring like themselves.
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The seasonal movement of animals from one place to another.
The role or job that an organism plays in its habitat.
The process by which organisms produce offspring and ensure survival of a species.
Hibernation Adaptation
Camouflage Metamorphosis
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A deep sleeplike state when an animal’s body
processes slow down to survive during winter.
PicturePictureDefinition DefinitionThe changes in form that some insects or other
animals go through during their life cycle.
The shape, color, or pattern of an
animal that helps it blend in or hide
with its surroundings.
A structure (body part) or behavior that helps an organism survive in its environment.
Egg Larva
Pupa Adult
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The first stage in the life cycle of
many organisms.
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A full grown animal or plant.
The stage in the life cycle of some insects when the
organism changes from a larva to an
adult.
The small, wormlike stage in the life cycle of
some insects such as a butterfly,
beetle, or moth.
Habitat Ecosystem
Environment Population
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The environment where an
organism lives.
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All the organisms of the same
species that live in the same place at
the same time.
The surroundings that an organism
lives in.
All the living and nonliving things that interact with each other in an environment.
Community Biome
Biotic Factor Abiotic Factor
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Populations of different kinds of organisms that live in the same place at the same time.
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A nonliving part of an ecosystem.
A living part of an ecosystem.
A very large area of land with a certain kind of climate and certain kinds of organisms living there.
Prey Producer
Consumer Decomposer
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An animal that is hunted, caught, and eaten by another animal.
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An organism that breaks down the
remains of living organisms.
An organism that does not produce its own food, and gets energy by eating other organisms.
An organism that makes its own
food through the process of
photosynthesis.
Herbivore Carnivore
Predator Scavenger
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An animal that eats only plant
products.
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A meat-eating animal that feeds on the remains of dead animals.
An animal that hunts, catches, and eats another animals.
An animal that eats other animals.
Food Chain Food Web
Parasitism Photosynthesis
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The path of food energy from one
organism to another in an ecosystem.
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The process in which plants
make their own food by sunlight,
water, and carbon dioxide.
A relationship between two
different kinds of organisms in which
one organism is helped and the
other is harmed.
Overlapping food chains with
different pathways for the flow of food
energy in an ecosystem.
Cell Survive
Mimicry Nymph
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The smallest living part of an organism.
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A stage in the life cycle of
some organisms that resembles
the adult.
When a living organism looks like something else that
can confuse predators from hunting it down.
To stay alive or in existence by using structural or behavioral adaptations.
Thrive Perish
Modify Tree Rings
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To grow, prosper, or remain alive.
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Definition DefinitionRings inside the trunk of a tree that tell a tree’s age and indicate the years of abundant rainfall and drought.
To change to make different.
To die or be destroyed.
Drought Endangered
Extinct Instinct
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A long period of dry weather; very little rainfall.
PicturePictureDefinition DefinitionA behavioral trait passed from parent to offspring through genes. The organism is born with instincts. Instincts are not
taught.
No longer living on earth
Plants or animals that are
in danger of being extinct.
Nitrogen Cycle Primary consumer
Secondary Consumer Scarce
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The cycle in which nitrogen gas is changed into forms of nitrogen that plants can use.
PicturePictureDefinition DefinitionWhen there is a limited amount of something. For example, water is scarce in a desert.
An animal in within the food chain that eats other animals; predator; carnivore.
An animal in the food chain that only eats plants.
