animal studies/student investigation vocabulary

Match the following

• a segment of the body of many animals.

• Appendage

• To study something by breaking it down

• Analyze

• have jointed legs and outer skeletons

• arthropods

• a structure that sticks out of the body

• Abdomen

• The process by which an organism changes

• Adaptation

Match the following

• waterway made by humans

• classify

• The kinds of organisms in an environment

• behavior

• to put things together by properties

• biodiversity

• regions of the earth that support life

• canal

• The way an organism responds

• Biosphere

Match the following

• something not changed in an experiment

• controlled experiment

• a decision that is based on observation

• conclusion

• one variable is changed others are same

• Dam

• have protective exoskeleton

• constant

• barrier that controls the flow of water

• crustaceans

Match the following

• hard outer shell covering some animals

• experiment

• everything that surrounds an organism

• data

• information gathered in experiement

• evidence

• something that offers proof

• exoskeleton

• a procedure to investigate a ?.

• environment

Match the following

• a prediction about how something works

• habitat

• not taught just known

• instinct

• state where animal rests when cold

• hypothesis

• The place where an animal lives

• lodge

• a beavers home

• hibernation

Match the following

• to shed skin

• opinion

• related to night

• metamorphosis

• change in form in lifecycle

• nocturnal

• a living thing

• organism

• how one thinks

• molt

Match the following

• the reaction to stimuli

• plankton

• happening with no order

• random

• steps that tell how to do something

• procedure

• tiny forms of plants in water

• reflex

• action taking automatically

• response

Match the following

• an outside influence on an organism

• structure

• the way parts of an animal are arranged

• segmented

• divided into sections

• stimulus

• an element in an experiment that changes

• variable

• small animals with large front teeth

• rodents