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Mammals are...
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animals that are vertabrates, breath with their lungs, drink their mother's milk, are viviparous, etc.
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An invertebrate is...
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an animal that doesn't have a backbone
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Metamorphosis is...
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A process in which baby amphibians change and grow into adult amphibians
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Insect bodies are divided into three parts called
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The head, the thorax and the abdomen
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Cold-blooded means...
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that they [the animal] can't control their body temperature and need the right enviornment for warmth
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What are scales for?
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They cover and protect fish and reptiles' bodies
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A beak is what a bird uses to...
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catch and eat its food. Beaks are shaped differently depending on what the bird eats
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Gills are used...
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by fish and amphibians to breathe
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Many invertebrates have an _____ or hard ____ to protect their bodies
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exoskeleton, shell
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The part of a flower called a carpel is...
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the female reproductive organ. It contains the stigma and the ovary.
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Stamens are...
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the male reproductive organ in flowers and they produce pollen.
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Describe wind pollination
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Plants without colors that attract use this method as animals will not approach them for nectar. The wind will blow pollen our of one flower and into another and pollinate it.
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When a seed lands in the soil it can __________ and a new plant grows.
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germinate
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Herbaceous plants, like bushes, are...
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Soft, green, low-growing plants.
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When pollen joins with an ovule, this is called
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Fertilisation
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What is photosynthesis?
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It is the process in which plants use sunlight to make food for themselves out of carbon dioxide and sunlight.
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