Science- Chapter 1 (vocab) 5th grade

the smallest unit of life that can carry out all life processes

• inch

• cell

• fidget spinner

an animal WITH a backbone

• vertebrate

• invertebrate

• turtle

a plant that contains tubes or vessels to transport water and nutrients

• aloe vera

• nonvascular

• vascular

a green chemical in plants that allows plants to carry out photosynthesis

• chlorophyll

• species

• slime

the science of organizing categories of living things

• classification

• kingdom

• science

an organism made of only one cell

• plankton

• unicycle

• unicellular

a group of cells working together

• tissue

• WMS chorus

• organ

an animal WITHOUT a backbone

• invertebrate

• vertebrate

• Gumby

the largest group into which an organism is classified

• King Tut

• kingdom

• species

an organism made up of more than one cell

• mulitplication

• unicellular

• multicellular