4th Grade Organisms SC 2019
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| Organism | Any living thing
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| Invertebrates | Animals with no backbone
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| Vertebrates | Animals with backbones
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| Mammal | Has fur or hair, feeds its young milk, and has lungs
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| Bird | Has wings and feathers
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| Reptile | Has dry scales or plates, most lay eggs, and breathes with lungs
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| Amphibian | Has moist skin, gills or lungs, or can breathe through skin and goes through metamorphosis
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| Fish | Most have bones or cartilage skeletons, fins, and breathes with gills
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| Adaptation | A physical or behavioral trait that allows an organism to survive.
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| Life cycle | Stages of growth and development from birth to death
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| Animals | A group of organisms that cannot make their own food.
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| Senses | These give animals information about their surroundings.
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| Habitat | The place where an organism lives.
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| Smell | The sense used to detect odors.
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| Hearing | The sense that allows the animal to listen to things.
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| Sight | The sense that allows an animal to see its habitat.
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| Touch | The sense that allows an animal to feel things in its environment.
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| Taste | The sense that is detected by the tongue.
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| Inherited traits | Traits that are passed from parent to offspring (children)
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| Acquired traits | Traits that are learned over time.
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| Behavioral adaptation | Something an animal does to help it survive
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| Structural adaptation | Special body parts to help it survive
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| Migration | Moving to a different place to live or reproduce.
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| Camouflage | Blending into its surroundings
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| Mimicry | Looking like another animal
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| Instinct | A behavior that an animal automatically knows how to do; They do not need to be taught it.
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| Trait | A characteristic passed on from its parents
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| Sea jellies | Invertebrate with soft bodies and long, stinging tentacles
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| Worms | Invertebrates with long, tube-shaped soft bodies and no legs
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| Arthropods | Largest group of invertebrates that include insects, spiders and crabs. They have an outer shell for protection and their legs have joints.
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| Mollusks | Invertebrates with soft bodies and some have a shell. Examples are squids, octopuses, snails and clams.
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| Egg | A baby develops inside and hatches out.
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| Live birth | Babies are born instead of hatching out of eggs.
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| Metamorphosis | A change in form as they grow into an adult
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| Complete metamorphosis | Has 4 stages: egg, larva, pupa, then adult
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| Incomplete metamorphosis | Has 3 stages: egg, nymph, adult
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| Nymph | A smaller, younger version of the adult. It molts until it reaches adult size.
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| Molts | To shed its outer covering, or exoskeleton as it grows.
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| Structures | An arrangement of parts an organism has to help it survive
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| Flowering plants | Plants with seeds that grow flowers
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| Deciduous trees | Trees that lose their leaves in the fall and then grow new leaves in the spring. Nuts are the seeds of some trees.
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| Coniferous trees | Trees that grow cones instead of flowers that hold seeds. Leaves are called needles and they do not fall off in the autumn.
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| Spores | A small cell that grows into a new plant made by mosses, ferns and fungi.
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| Germination | When a seed splits open and sprouts.
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| Seedling | A young plant
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| Roots | Absorb water and nutrients from the soil
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| Leaves | Contains chlorophyll that works with the sun to make food for the plant.
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| Stem | Holds the plant up and gives it support. It contains tube-like structures to move water and nutrients to the leaves from the roots.
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| Spine | Another word for backbone
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| Habitat | The place where an organism lives.
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| Structural adaptation | Special body parts that help the organism survive.
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| Behavioral adaptation | Special behaviors that help an organism survive.
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