4Th Grade Science

Front 1

Adaptation

Back 1

ways of acting or certain parts of the body that help the animal survive in its environment

Front 2

Behavioral Adaptation

Back 2

way things act or respond to their environment in order to survive

Front 3

Structural Adaptation

Back 3

Boday Part that helps an animal survive in its environment

Front 4

Carnivore

Back 4

Animal that eats meat only

Front 5

Consumer

Back 5

All organisms that eat food

Front 6

Decomposer

Back 6

Organisms that turn animal waste into energy

Front 7

Environment

Back 7

Everything that surronds an animal (living or non living)

Front 8

Exoskeleton

Back 8

Protective structure on outside of the body

Front 9

Food Chain

Back 9

The way food passes from one organism to the other

Front 10

Habitat

Back 10

place where an animal or plant natually lives

Front 11

Herbivore

Back 11

Animal that only eats plants

Front 12

Instinctive Behavior

Back 12

Behaviors that animals are born with

Front 13

Invertebrate

Back 13

Animal that does not have a backbone

Front 14

Learned Behavior

Back 14

Behaviors that an animal learns after birth

Front 15

Life Cycle

Back 15

Series of changes all living things go through

Front 16

Life Span

Back 16

Amount of time a living thing lives

Front 17

Migration

Back 17

When an animal moves from one environment to another

Front 18

Omnivore

Back 18

Animals that eat both plants and animals

Front 19

Organisms

Back 19

A living thing, plants or animals

Front 20

Predator

Back 20

An animal that is hunting

Front 21

Prey

Back 21

Animal that is being eaten

Front 22

Producer

Back 22

Organism that makes its own food

Front 23

Reproduce

Back 23

To produce children or babies

Front 24

Vertebrate

Back 24

animal that has a backbone