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| Adaptation | A trait of a plant or animal that helps it survive in its environment. |
| Adult | A plant or animal that is fully grown |
| Amphibian | An animal that hatches as an aquatic larva with gills. The larva then transforms into an adult having air-breathing lungs. |
| Bark | The tough outer covering of woody stems and roots. |
| Bird | An organism that lays eggs |
| carnivore | An organism that eats meat |
| Community | A group of animals and plants that live together. |
| Consumer | An organism which must eat plants or animals for energy. |
| decomposer | An organism that breaks down dead plants and animals. |
| Ecosystem | An ecological community together with its environment |
| Egg | The round or oval female reproductive body of various animals |
| Fish | An organism that has scales |
| Food Chain | The order of organisms in an ecosystem that shows a transfer of energy from one organism to another. |
| Froglet | The stage of the frog lifecycle before it becomes an adult. |
| Habitat | The area or environment where an organism or ecological community normally lives |
| Herbivore | An organism that eats plants. |
| Inherited Traits | A characteristic of an organism passed down by its parents |
| Insect | An organism that goes through metamorphosis and has an adult stage characterized by three pairs of legs and a body segmented into head |
| Larva | The newly hatched |
| Leaf | The part of the plant that turns sunlight into energy for the plant to grow. |
| Learned Behavior | A behavior or a habitat that is required through teaching |
| Life cycle | The changes in an organism as it grow from a baby to an adult. |
| Mammal | An organism that has fur |
| Metamorphosis | The complete form of metamorphosis in which an insect passes through four separate stages of growth |
| Older Seedling | The stage of the life cycle of a plant before it is an adult. |
| Organism | A living thing |
| Plants | An organism that has leaves |
| Population | The total number of animals or plants living in one area. For example: A lake has a population of goldfish. |
| Predator | An organism that hunts other organisms for food. |
| Prey | An organism that is hunted by another organism |
| Producer | An organism that makes its own energy |
| Pupa | The stage in the life cycle of an insect between larva and Adult. |
| Reptile | An organism that breathes with lungs |
| Root | A part of the plant that soaks up nutrients and water from the soil. |
| Seed | The beginning of the plant lifecycle |
| Seedlings | A young plant that is grown from a seed. |
| Stem | A part of the plant that brings water and nutrients from the roots to the leaves and energy from the leaves to the roots. Also supports the plant. |
| Tadpole | The stage of the life cycle of a frog between egg and froglet. |
| Trait | A characteristic of an organism. |
