animal studies/student investigation vocabulary

Match the following

• have jointed legs and outer skeletons

• Adaptation

• The process by which an organism changes

• arthropods

• To study something by breaking it down

• Analyze

• a structure that sticks out of the body

• Appendage

• a segment of the body of many animals.

• Abdomen

Match the following

• regions of the earth that support life

• behavior

• to put things together by properties

• Biosphere

• The way an organism responds

• classify

• The kinds of organisms in an environment

• canal

• waterway made by humans

• biodiversity

Match the following

• one variable is changed others are same

• crustaceans

• something not changed in an experiment

• conclusion

• have protective exoskeleton

• Dam

• a decision that is based on observation

• constant

• barrier that controls the flow of water

• controlled experiment

Match the following

• everything that surrounds an organism

• environment

• something that offers proof

• exoskeleton

• information gathered in experiement

• data

• a procedure to investigate a ?.

• evidence

• hard outer shell covering some animals

• experiment

Match the following

• The place where an animal lives

• hibernation

• not taught just known

• instinct

• a prediction about how something works

• hypothesis

• a beavers home

• habitat

• state where animal rests when cold

• lodge

Match the following

• change in form in lifecycle

• molt

• a living thing

• metamorphosis

• to shed skin

• nocturnal

• how one thinks

• organism

• related to night

• opinion

Match the following

• the reaction to stimuli

• response

• action taking automatically

• random

• happening with no order

• plankton

• tiny forms of plants in water

• procedure

• steps that tell how to do something

• reflex

Match the following

• an element in an experiment that changes

• variable

• divided into sections

• structure

• the way parts of an animal are arranged

• stimulus

• an outside influence on an organism

• segmented

• small animals with large front teeth

• rodents