| A | B |
|---|
| basic needs | things that something must have to live and grow |
| characteristic | how something is or looks; what it has |
| learned characteristic | characteristic that is learned from someone else |
| inherited characteristic | characteristics that come from parents |
| development | growing and changing |
| diversity | variety; many kinds |
| life cycle | how a living thing changes during its life |
| nutrient | a substance, such as a mineral, which all living things need in order to grow |
| offspring | an animal's or human's young |
| organism | a living plant or animal |
| reproduction | making a new living thing like itself |
| structure | the way something is put together, like the structure of the plant |
| survival | staying alive, continuing to live |
| living | plants, animals, or humans that are alive |
| nonliving | things like rocks, water, soil, and air |
