animal studies/student investigation vocabulary

Match the following

• To study something by breaking it down

• Analyze

• The process by which an organism changes

• Appendage

• a segment of the body of many animals.

• Adaptation

• have jointed legs and outer skeletons

• arthropods

• a structure that sticks out of the body

• Abdomen

Match the following

• regions of the earth that support life

• biodiversity

• The kinds of organisms in an environment

• classify

• waterway made by humans

• behavior

• to put things together by properties

• canal

• The way an organism responds

• Biosphere

Match the following

• one variable is changed others are same

• Dam

• barrier that controls the flow of water

• controlled experiment

• something not changed in an experiment

• crustaceans

• a decision that is based on observation

• constant

• have protective exoskeleton

• conclusion

Match the following

• hard outer shell covering some animals

• data

• everything that surrounds an organism

• environment

• a procedure to investigate a ?.

• experiment

• something that offers proof

• exoskeleton

• information gathered in experiement

• evidence

Match the following

• a prediction about how something works

• hibernation

• a beavers home

• habitat

• state where animal rests when cold

• hypothesis

• The place where an animal lives

• instinct

• not taught just known

• lodge

Match the following

• a living thing

• metamorphosis

• how one thinks

• organism

• related to night

• nocturnal

• to shed skin

• opinion

• change in form in lifecycle

• molt

Match the following

• tiny forms of plants in water

• plankton

• action taking automatically

• random

• the reaction to stimuli

• response

• happening with no order

• reflex

• steps that tell how to do something

• procedure

Match the following

• small animals with large front teeth

• structure

• divided into sections

• variable

• an outside influence on an organism

• segmented

• the way parts of an animal are arranged

• rodents

• an element in an experiment that changes

• stimulus