PSSA Science Vocabulary List6

the poison an animal injects (like a snake) into another organism

• blood

• hydrochloric acid

• magma

• venom

When an organism has a harmful chjemical in or on its body, it is said to be ___________

• venomous

• inherited characteristic

• individual

• poisonous

qualities that you are born with that parents pass on to their offspring. (ex. hair color, eye color, height)

• inherited characteristics

• individual

• input

• predator

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-1

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

a behavior that an organism is able to do without being taught to do it. (ex. eating, migrating, building of nests, etc.)

• individual

• instinct

• Onyxx

• Mrs. Wile

A single living thing

• characteristics

• organism

• individual

• food web

An organism that makes or creates its own food (like most plants). Think about where vegetables are bought in grocery store!

• consumer

• producer

• scavenger

• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

A model that shows how energy flows through an ecosystem. Energy flows when organism eat one another.

• consumer

• individual

• food web

• Mr. McCabe

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that gets its food by eating other living organisms.

• consumer

• producer

• scavenger

• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

An organism that eats dead organisms

• consumer

• producer

• scavenger

• decomposer

an animal that is hunted, killed, and eaten

• Mufasa

• Olaf

• pray

• prey