Evolution Vocab

The arrangement of things in groups of similar items

• Classification

• Kingdom

• Binomial Nomenclature

• Species

Organism with a backbone

• Vertebrate

• Invertebrate

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Organism without a backbone

• Vertebrate

• Invertebrate

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

An organism that can make its own food (producers)

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Vascular

• Nonvascular

All organism that DON’T make their own food

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Vascular

• Nonvascular

Having many lines of symmetry that all pass through a central point.

• Radial

• Bilateral

• Asymmetry

• Spatial

Can be split in half in one direction

• Radial

• Bilateral

• Asymmetry

• Spatial

Cannot be split into equal parts in any direction - ambiguous shapes

• Radial

• Bilateral

• Asymmetry

• Spatial

Hard protective structure developed outside the body, as the shell of a lobster

• Exoskeleton

• Endoskeleton

• Vascular

• Nonvascular

The structural support organ system that is located on the inside of an organism

• Exoskeleton

• Endoskeleton

• Vascular

• Nonvascular