| A | B |
|---|
| living | things that need food, water, air, space, and shelter |
| adaptations | changes made to organisms to help it meet its needs |
| external | on the outside |
| plant | a living thing that usually has leaves, stems,and roots |
| animal | a living thing that eats other plants or animals for food |
| habitat | a place where an animal and plant's basic needs are met |
| offspring | the young produced by a parent |
| parents | mother and father |
| change | when something becomes different |
| growth | to become larger or more complex |
| function | the way something works |
| structure | the way something is put together |
| inherited characteristic | a characteristic that is passed from one parent to offspring |
| life cycle | stages that an organism goes through as it grows and matures |
| food chain | the sequence of who eats whom in a biological community |
| decomposer | organism that eats other organisms to get energy |
| ecosystem | a community of organisms and its environmet |
| producer | organisms that make their own food |
| survival | ability of an organism to stay alive |
| nonliving | things that do not need food, water, air, space, and shelter |
| basic needs | things needed to stay alive including food, water, air, space, and shelter |
| external | on the outside |
| community | group of organisms that live together and share resources |
| consumer | organisms that eats other organisms to get energy |
