Plant and Animal Classification Vocabulary

What is the "process of sorting or organizing based on shared traits or characteristics"?

• Organisms

• Kingdom

• Classification

• Sorting

What is a "single kind of organism that can reproduce among its own kind"?

• Organism

• Species

• Producer

• Consumer

_________________ are animals with a backbone.

• Invertebrates

• Consumers

• Decomposers

• Vertebrates

________________ are animals without a backbone.

• Species

• Mammals

• Invertebrates

• Vertebrates

What is the "process of a transformation from a newborn to an adult form in two or more distinct stages"?

• Growing up

• Development

• Metamorphosis

• Classification

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-3

Which is NOT one of the main groups of vertebrates?

• mammals

• amphibians

• reptiles

• insects

What is the "process by which plants use sunlight to make food"?

• photosynthesis

• classification

• plant growth

• chlorophyll

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

______________ are plants with tubes that carry nutrients and water throughout the plant.

• Nonvascular

• Stems

• Vascular

• Phloem

_________________ are plants without tubes to carry water and nutrients throughout the plant.

• Phloem

• Xylem

• Vascular

• Nonvascular

What is a "vascular tissue that carries water and nutrients from roots to the other parts of a plant"?

• Xylem

• Phloem

• Gymnosperm

• Angiosperm