animal studies/student investigation vocabulary

Match the following

• a segment of the body of many animals.

• Abdomen

• have jointed legs and outer skeletons

• Adaptation

• a structure that sticks out of the body

• Appendage

• To study something by breaking it down

• Analyze

• The process by which an organism changes

• arthropods

Match the following

• to put things together by properties

• behavior

• waterway made by humans

• classify

• The kinds of organisms in an environment

• biodiversity

• The way an organism responds

• canal

• regions of the earth that support life

• Biosphere

Match the following

• one variable is changed others are same

• controlled experiment

• a decision that is based on observation

• crustaceans

• have protective exoskeleton

• Dam

• something not changed in an experiment

• constant

• barrier that controls the flow of water

• conclusion

Match the following

• everything that surrounds an organism

• evidence

• a procedure to investigate a ?.

• environment

• something that offers proof

• experiment

• information gathered in experiement

• exoskeleton

• hard outer shell covering some animals

• data

Match the following

• a prediction about how something works

• instinct

• The place where an animal lives

• habitat

• not taught just known

• hypothesis

• state where animal rests when cold

• hibernation

• a beavers home

• lodge

Match the following

• how one thinks

• molt

• a living thing

• metamorphosis

• to shed skin

• organism

• related to night

• opinion

• change in form in lifecycle

• nocturnal

Match the following

• happening with no order

• plankton

• action taking automatically

• response

• tiny forms of plants in water

• random

• steps that tell how to do something

• procedure

• the reaction to stimuli

• reflex

Match the following

• divided into sections

• structure

• small animals with large front teeth

• variable

• an element in an experiment that changes

• segmented

• the way parts of an animal are arranged

• stimulus

• an outside influence on an organism

• rodents