Classification of Animals & Plants Vocab

An animal with a backbone.

• invertabrate

• vertabrate

• kingdom

• classification

A warm-blooded vertebrate that has hair, produces milk, and gives birth to live offspring.

• fish

• amphibian

• mammal

• reptile

A cold-blooded vertebrate that has moist skin and lays jelly coated eggs in the water. Lives on land AND in water.

• fish

• bird

• reptile

• amphibian

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

A warm-blooded vertebrate that has feathers, hollow bones, and lays hard shelled eggs.

• amphibian

• bird

• mammal

• reptile

Plants that have a well-developed system for transporting water and food. They have roots, stems, and leaves.

• fungi

• bacteria

• vascular plant

• nonvascular plant

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Can be made of one or many cells and cannot make their own food. These organisms are decomposers in an ecosystem.

• fungi

• plant

• protist

• mammal

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

One celled organisms that have no nucleus. Some play important roles in ecosystems where they are decomposers.

• protists

• fungi

• bacteria

• plant

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Tubes that carry water and other materials up into the plant (into roots, stems, and leaves).

• fern

• xylem

• phloem

• gymnosperms

Have xylem and phloem, no seeds to protect plant embryo (baby plant) and reproduces through spores, which are brown spots on the underside of the leaves.

• gymnosperms

• vascular plant

• fern

• fungi

Known as flowering plant. The seed is protected by fruit. It has flowers before the fruit forms.

• kingdom

• gymnosperms

• angiosperms

• nonvascular plant