Fourth Grade: Chapter Four Plants & Animals

to arrange or sort objects or living things according to their properties

• pistil

• germinate

• classify

• instinct

animals without a backbone

• vertebrate

• stamen

• invertebrate

• inherit

one of the leaflike parts that cover and protect the flower bud

• photosynthesis

• advantage

• adaptation

• sepal

a physical feature or behavior that helps an organism survive in its 

environment 

• stimulus

• adaptation

• chlorophyll

• invertebrate

to receive characteristics from an organism’s parents 

• germinate

• classify

• pollination

• inherit

something that causes a reaction in a living thing 

• stimulus

• stamen

• pollination

• chlorophyll

the process in which plants make sugar (their own food)

• adaptation

• stamen

• photosynthesis

• stimulus

to start to grow 

• instinct

• classify

• advantage

• germinate

animals that have backbones 

• vertebrates

• chlorophyll

• stamen

• invertebrates

the substance in plants that makes their parts green and captures 

energy from sunlight 

• chlorophyll

• pistil

• pollination

• advantage