Science Vocabulary - Plant and Animal Classification

an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form

• Organism

• Conifer

• Nonvascular

• Vascular

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Evergreen trees or shrubs (pine, fir, spruce), plants that form seeds in cones. They do NOT lose their leaves.

• Organism

• Conifer

• Nonvascular

• Vascular

Plants absorb water much like a sponge soaks up liquid.

• Organism

• Conifer

• Nonvascular

• Vascular

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Plants have tissues that act like tubes to transport water throughout the plant

• Organism

• Conifer

• Nonvascular

• Vascular

Plants that lose their leaves each year before winter

• Seeds

• Angiosperm

• Deciduous

• Gymnosperms

Vascular plants that produce flowers

• Seeds

• Angiosperm

• Deciduous

• Gymnosperms

Vascular plants that produce seeds but do not produce flowers

• Seeds

• Angiosperm

• Deciduous

• Gymnosperms

a part of a plant that contains a tiny new plant (embryo)

• Seeds

• Angiosperm

• Deciduous

• Gymnosperms

a plant cell that can grow into a new plant

• Spores (Seedless)

• Amphibians

• Birds

• Fish

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Cold-blooded, live part of their lives in water and part of their lives on land

• Spores (Seedless)

• Amphibians

• Birds

• Fish