animal studies/student investigation vocabulary

Match the following

• The process by which an organism changes

• Abdomen

• have jointed legs and outer skeletons

• Adaptation

• a structure that sticks out of the body

• Analyze

• To study something by breaking it down

• Appendage

• a segment of the body of many animals.

• arthropods

Match the following

• regions of the earth that support life

• Biosphere

• The kinds of organisms in an environment

• behavior

• to put things together by properties

• biodiversity

• The way an organism responds

• classify

• waterway made by humans

• canal

Match the following

• a decision that is based on observation

• Dam

• barrier that controls the flow of water

• controlled experiment

• something not changed in an experiment

• crustaceans

• have protective exoskeleton

• conclusion

• one variable is changed others are same

• constant

Match the following

• information gathered in experiement

• experiment

• hard outer shell covering some animals

• evidence

• something that offers proof

• data

• a procedure to investigate a ?.

• environment

• everything that surrounds an organism

• exoskeleton

Match the following

• a beavers home

• lodge

• state where animal rests when cold

• instinct

• not taught just known

• hibernation

• a prediction about how something works

• habitat

• The place where an animal lives

• hypothesis

Match the following

• a living thing

• organism

• related to night

• molt

• to shed skin

• metamorphosis

• how one thinks

• nocturnal

• change in form in lifecycle

• opinion

Match the following

• tiny forms of plants in water

• reflex

• steps that tell how to do something

• random

• happening with no order

• plankton

• the reaction to stimuli

• procedure

• action taking automatically

• response

Match the following

• divided into sections

• rodents

• an outside influence on an organism

• stimulus

• the way parts of an animal are arranged

• structure

• small animals with large front teeth

• segmented

• an element in an experiment that changes

• variable