animal studies/student investigation vocabulary

Match the following

• have jointed legs and outer skeletons

• Abdomen

• a structure that sticks out of the body

• arthropods

• a segment of the body of many animals.

• Adaptation

• The process by which an organism changes

• Analyze

• To study something by breaking it down

• Appendage

Match the following

• waterway made by humans

• classify

• regions of the earth that support life

• canal

• to put things together by properties

• Biosphere

• The way an organism responds

• biodiversity

• The kinds of organisms in an environment

• behavior

Match the following

• a decision that is based on observation

• crustaceans

• barrier that controls the flow of water

• Dam

• have protective exoskeleton

• conclusion

• one variable is changed others are same

• controlled experiment

• something not changed in an experiment

• constant

Match the following

• everything that surrounds an organism

• experiment

• something that offers proof

• environment

• hard outer shell covering some animals

• data

• information gathered in experiement

• exoskeleton

• a procedure to investigate a ?.

• evidence

Match the following

• The place where an animal lives

• instinct

• a beavers home

• habitat

• a prediction about how something works

• hibernation

• state where animal rests when cold

• hypothesis

• not taught just known

• lodge

Match the following

• related to night

• organism

• change in form in lifecycle

• metamorphosis

• how one thinks

• molt

• a living thing

• opinion

• to shed skin

• nocturnal

Match the following

• tiny forms of plants in water

• reflex

• the reaction to stimuli

• response

• action taking automatically

• procedure

• steps that tell how to do something

• plankton

• happening with no order

• random

Match the following

• the way parts of an animal are arranged

• stimulus

• an outside influence on an organism

• variable

• small animals with large front teeth

• rodents

• an element in an experiment that changes

• segmented

• divided into sections

• structure