Animal Survival Vocabulary

any living thing

• bookshelf

• organism

• building

• fish

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

senses

• information receivers, like sight, touch, taste, smell, and hearing

• skills an animal use to survive

• body coverings of an animal

• a change in the environment

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

signal or stimulus

• it means nothing

• a series of activities performed by an organism

• body parts

• a change in the environment that makes an organisms respond

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

to receive characteristics from its parents

• instinct

• environment

• inherit

• signal

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

a physical feature or behavior that helps an organism survive in its environment.

• inherit

• adaptation

• behavior

• sensory

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

instinct

• a behavior that you are born with

• something learned

• animal senses

• physical characteristic

body parts that receive information from the environment: for example ear, nose, and eyes

• inherited behavior

• senses

• sensory organ

• signal

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

a characteristic that an organism must learn to do as it grows and develops usually in response to the environment.

• acquired behavior

• instinct

• senses

• acting up

instinct

• a living thing

• a change in the environment

• a learned behavior

• an inherited behavior that does NOT have to be learned

qualities an organism has

• sensory organs

• characteristics

• body parts

• ice cream

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS3-1