Organisms Vocabulary

a living thing

• organism

• environment

• nutrients

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the surroundings that an organism lives in

• nature

• environment

• home

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an organism that makes its own food

• producers

• consumers

• decomposers

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a substance that an organism needs in order to survive and grow

• organs

• nutrients

• home

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the process of using the energy in sunlight to make food from water and carbon dioxide

• pollution

• photosynthesis

• chlorophyll

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a green substance in plant leaves that captures the energy in sunlight

• chlorophyll

• chloroplasts

• glucose

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a tiny green structure that contains chlorophyll found in leaves

• chlorophyll

• chloroplasts

• photosynthesis

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a kind of sugar that is made by plants and broken down in cells to release energy

• glucose

• chloroplasts

• nutrients

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the stages of growth and development that an organism goes through in its lifetime

• life cycle

• inherited traits

• learned behavior

a behavior that an animal develops by observing other animals or by being taught

• life cycle

• learned behavior

• inherited traits