| A | B |
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| a physical feature or behavior that helps an organism survive in its environment | Adaptation |
| a state of inactivity that helps some animals survive cold temperatures | Hibernation |
| the product of the reproductive processes of a person, animal, or plant | Offspring |
| everything that surrounds a living thing | Environment |
| to arrange or sort objects or living things according to their properties or characteristics | Classify |
| animals without backbones | Invertebrates |
| animals with backbones | Vertebrates |
| This occurs when two or more organisms need the same resources in order to survive | Competition |
| Hard, lightweight, outer skin that protects the soft body of invertebrates | Exoskeleton |
| plants with tube-like structures used to carry nutrients & water to the rest of the plant | Vascular |
| the qualities that an organism has | Characteristics |
| a characteristic that can help an individual compete in its environment | Advantage |
| to receive characteristics from an organism’s parents | Inherit |
| something that causes a reaction in a living thing | Stimulus |
| a behavior an animal is born with | Instinct |
| The instinct to move between habitats | Migration |
| Ways that animals act | Behaviors |
| Plants that pass water & nutrients from cell to cell | Nonvascular |
| One cell surrounded by a protective cell wall that needs a moist shady place to reproduce a plant. | Spore |
| A young plant & stored food inside a protective covering that can reproduce a plant | Seed |
| Animal without a backbone; Most animals on Earth are these | Arthropod |
