Living Things

Organism

• a lving thing

• the basic building block that makes up all living things

• an animal that does not have a backbone

environment

• a living thing

• an animal with a backbone

• all the living and nonliving things that surround an organism

cell

• a living thing

• the basic building block that makes up all living things

• all the living and nonliving things that surround an organism

photosynthesis

• a living thing

• the basic building block that makes up all living things

• the process through which plants make food

vertebrate

• an animal with a backbone

• an animal without a backbone

• the process through which plants make food

invertebrate

• an animal with a backbone

• an animal without a backbone

• the process through which plants make food

Lungs

• Structures that take in oxygen from the air.

• Structures that take in oxygen from water.

• A safe place.

Gills

• Structures that take in oxygen from the air.

• Structures that take in oxygen from water.

• A safe place.

Shelter

• Structures that take in oxygen from the air.

• Structures that take in oxygen from water.

• A safe place.

exoskeleton

• a hard covering, or shell, that holds up and protects and invertebrate's body

• Structures that take in oxygen from water.

• an animal with no backbone