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system |
consists of the parts of a plant that work together (ex. a plant's leaves make up it's leaf system) |
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deciduous |
trees that have leaves that die and fall off in the fall and grow new leaves in the spring |
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pollinate |
to move pollen from part of a flower that makes pollen to the part of the flower that makes seeds |
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coniferous |
describes trees that do not lose their needle-like leaves in the fall |
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seed leaf |
provides food for a sprouting new plant (every plant has either one or two seed leaves) |
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germinate |
to start to grow |
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seedling |
a young plant that starts to grow once the seed breaks open |
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fossil |
the remains or the mark of a living thing from long ago |
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extinct |
plants and animals that lived long ago and are no longer alive |
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traits |
a body feature passed on to an animal from its parent (what an animal does or how it looks) |
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vertebrate |
an animal with a backbone fish-amphibians-reptiles-birds-mammals |
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invertebrate |
an animal without a backbone sea jellies-worms-mollusks-arthropods |
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larva |
the stage in an insects life after it hatches from the egg |
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pupa |
the stage in an insects life between larva and adult |
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adaptation |
a trait that helps an animal meet its needs in the place where it lives (ex. pelicans' webbed feet, birds' beaks) |
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inherited |
passed on from parent to offspring |
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migrate |
to move to another place to find better climate, food, or a mate |
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hibernate |
to spend winter resting; body systems slow down in order to save energy and survive |
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environment |
everything that surrounds a living thing |
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ecosystem |
all the living and nonliving things that interact with each other in a given area |
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community |
all the populations that live together in the same place |
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population |
all the living things of the same kind that live in the same place at the same time |
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grassland |
a land ecosystem that has many grasses and few trees |
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desert |
an ecosystem that gets less than 25 cm of rainfall a year |
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tundra |
a land ecosystem that is cold and dry |
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wetland |
a low land ecosystem that is covered by water at least part of the time during the year; marshes and swamps are wetlands |