animal studies/student investigation vocabulary

Match the following

• a segment of the body of many animals.

• Analyze

• a structure that sticks out of the body

• arthropods

• To study something by breaking it down

• Adaptation

• The process by which an organism changes

• Abdomen

• have jointed legs and outer skeletons

• Appendage

Match the following

• The way an organism responds

• Biosphere

• regions of the earth that support life

• biodiversity

• to put things together by properties

• canal

• waterway made by humans

• behavior

• The kinds of organisms in an environment

• classify

Match the following

• have protective exoskeleton

• Dam

• something not changed in an experiment

• constant

• one variable is changed others are same

• controlled experiment

• barrier that controls the flow of water

• crustaceans

• a decision that is based on observation

• conclusion

Match the following

• something that offers proof

• data

• everything that surrounds an organism

• environment

• hard outer shell covering some animals

• evidence

• a procedure to investigate a ?.

• experiment

• information gathered in experiement

• exoskeleton

Match the following

• a beavers home

• lodge

• state where animal rests when cold

• hibernation

• a prediction about how something works

• habitat

• not taught just known

• instinct

• The place where an animal lives

• hypothesis

Match the following

• how one thinks

• opinion

• change in form in lifecycle

• organism

• to shed skin

• molt

• related to night

• metamorphosis

• a living thing

• nocturnal

Match the following

• action taking automatically

• reflex

• tiny forms of plants in water

• response

• happening with no order

• random

• the reaction to stimuli

• plankton

• steps that tell how to do something

• procedure

Match the following

• small animals with large front teeth

• structure

• the way parts of an animal are arranged

• segmented

• divided into sections

• rodents

• an element in an experiment that changes

• stimulus

• an outside influence on an organism

• variable