Science Fusion Unit 4 Lessons 5 & 6 Vocabulary

An animal with a backbone

• Invertebrate

• Vertebrate

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An animal without a backbone

• Invertebrate

• Vertebrate

The stages that a living thing passes through as it grows and changes.

• incomplete metamorphosis

• life cycle

• complete metamorphosis

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A complex change that most insects undergo that includes

larva, and pupa stages

• Complete metamorphosis

• Incomplete metamorphosis

• Life Cycle

Developmental change in some insects in which a nymph hatches from an egg and gradually develops into an adult

• Incomplete metamorphosis

• complete metamorphosis

• life cycle

A trait or characteristic that helps an organism survive.

• Adaptation

• Instinct

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Behavior that an organism inherits and knows how to do without being taught.

• Adaptation

• Instinct