| A | B |
| Organism | Something living |
| Movement | The ability to control how the organism moves |
| Growth | The ability to get bigger |
| Nutrition | The requirement to take materials in from the surrounding environment in order to perform other life processes |
| Respiration | A chemical process releasing energy by combining glucose with oxygen |
| Reproduction | The ability to produce offspring |
| Sensitivity | The ability to detect changes in the surrounding environment |
| Excretion | The process of removing waste from the organism |
| Classification | The process of putting organisms into groups |
| Fungi | A group of organisms with cell wall but no ability to photosynthesise |
| Bacteria | A group of single celled organism with no nucleus |
| Protozoa | A group of microscopic organisms with DNA in a nucleus |
| Animals | Organisms which have to consume others for energy and growth |
| Plants | Organisms which can use sunlight energy to make energy |
| Vertebrates | A group of animals with backbones |
| Invertebrates | A group of animals without backbones |
| Adaptation | The characteristic an organism has developed to help it survive in a particular environment |
| Habitat | An area of the environment in which a community of organisms lives |
| Mammal | A warm blooded vertebrate that gives birth to live young and feeds young on milk |
| Reptile | A cold blooded vertebrate, covered in scales and laying leathery shelled eggs |
| Bird | A warm blooded vertebrate, covered in feathers and laying hard shelled eggs |
| Amphibian | A cold blooded vertebrate with moist skin, young have gills, adults have lungs. Must return to the water to breed, lays jelly like eggs. |
| Fish | A cold blooded vertebrate, breathes with gills, covered in scales and laying jelly like eggs |
| Insect | An invertebrate with three body sections, six legs, wings and antennae |
| Spider | An invertebrate with two body sections and eight legs |