An organism that has many cells with thick cell walls, makes its own food, and is not able to move from place to place.

The arrangement of parts.

Plants that make seeds within flowers.

Plants that make seeds within cones or produce spores instead of seeds.

The spots on the underside of a fern leaf, which is how the fern reproduces.

An evergreen tree that makes seeds into cones.

An undeveloped plant with stored food sealed in a protective covering.

A young plant grown from a seed.

Has the same structures (roots, stems, leaves) as seedlings, but in addition, they are able to reproduce using flowers or cones, which produce seeds.

The various stages an organism passes through as it grows, matures, and finally dies.

To start growing from a seed as the seed absorbs water and swells.

A characteristic passed on to a living thing from its parents.

Organisms made up of many parts that cannot make their own food, but must feed on plants and other animals to survive.

An animal with a backbone.

An animal without a backbone.

A cold-blooded vertebrate that lives in water, has scales and fins, and uses gills for breathing.

A cold-blooded vertebrate that has moist skin, the young breathe with gills before developing lungs and breathing air as adults.

A cold-blooded vertebrate that has skin covered with scales or hard plates; it breathes air with lungs.

A warm-blooded vertebrate that has wings, is covered with feathers and breathes air with lungs.

A warm-blooded vertebrate that usually has hair or fur and breathes air with lungs.

An invertebrate with a soft body and a hard outer shell.

An invertebrate that has a hard covering, jointed legs and a body divided into sections.

A change in the form of an organism.

A hard case in which the young of some insects develops into an adult.

To shed an outer covering.

A stage in the life cycle of some insects when the young hatches from an egg and looks much like an adult, but smaller.

Is born alive.

A physical feature or behavior that helps an organism survive in its environment.

Anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like that causes or incites some action.

To spread.

The act or power of moving from place to place.

A color, shape, or pattern that helps an animal blend into its surroundings.

A physical feature or behavior that helps an organism survive in its environment.

Anything that serves to indicate, warn, direct, command, or the like that causes or incites some action.

To spread.

The act or power of moving from place to place.

A color, shape, or pattern that helps an animal blend into its surroundings.

The qualities or traits of an organism.

To receive characteristics from an organism's parents (eye color, hair color, etc)

Something that causes a reaction in a living thing.

A way of acting that an animal is born with (instinct)

A way of acting that an animal must learn.

Those things that tell an animal what it needs to know about the environment (touch, taste, smell, sight, sound).

The regular long-distance movement of animals from one region to another.

Features of organisms that can be easily observed and described (eye color, hair color, height, weight, skin color, fur color, etc).

Sense that detects flavors; humans detect salty, sweet, bitter, and/or sour.

Sense that detects shapes, size, temperature, texture, pain, vibrations, pressure. 

Sense that detects colors, shapes, sizes, space/distance, light and movement.

Sense that detects odors.

Sense that receives vibrations, detects sound.