| A | B |
|---|
| The environment we live in, which includes food, water, shelter and space | habitat |
| inherited traits that help a living thing survive | adaptations |
| a population that lives together in the same place | community |
| all the living things of the same kind that live in the same place at the same time | population |
| a set of parts that interact with one another | system |
| the remains or mark of a living thing from long ago | fossils |
| an animal that kills and eats other animals | predator |
| animals that are killed and eaten by other animals | prey |
| something in danger of becoming extinct | endangered species |
| a plant or animal which no longer lives in our world | extinct |
| organisms that make their own food, such as plants | producers |
| plants use energy from the sun, air and water to | make their own food |
| hold the plant in the ground and take in water and minteals from the soil | roots |
| part of a plant that usually has tubes that move water and minerals from the roots of plants to the leaves | stem |
| flowering plants use flowers to make | seeds |
| these kinds of plants lose leaves in teh fall and new leaves grow again in the spring | deciduous |
| these kind of plants have scaly or needle-like leaves | coniferous |
| provides food for sprouting a new plant | seed leaf |
| a seed _________________ when it starts to grow | germinates |
| use the produces for their food, and all animals are these | consumers |
| the transfer of food energy from plants to a series of animals. It is the path energy takes as one living thing eats another | food chain |
| an aminal that eats only plants | herbivore |
| an animal that east only the flesh from other animals | carnivore |
| an animal that eats both plants and animals | omnivore |
| a living thing that breaks down waste and things that have died | decomposer |
| animals with backbones, like birds and reptiles | vertebrates |
| animals with no backbone, like jelly fish and worms | invertebrates |
| vertebrates who have hair or fur, and feed their young milk | mammals |
| animals that have feathers and lay had shelled eggs | birds |
| have dry scaly skin and leathery shelled eggs, and all breathe air | reptiles |
| animals that usually live in water after hatching from jelly coated eggs, but then develop lungs to live on land | amphibians |
| aminlas that live in water, have gills for breathing and fins for swimming | fish |
| when animals move from one place to another | migration |
| a feature passed on to a living thing from its parents | trait |
| plants like mosses and ferns that don't make seeds are called | non-flowering plants |
