animal studies/student investigation vocabulary

Match the following

• To study something by breaking it down

• Abdomen

• The process by which an organism changes

• Adaptation

• a structure that sticks out of the body

• Appendage

• have jointed legs and outer skeletons

• arthropods

• a segment of the body of many animals.

• Analyze

Match the following

• to put things together by properties

• classify

• waterway made by humans

• behavior

• The way an organism responds

• canal

• regions of the earth that support life

• Biosphere

• The kinds of organisms in an environment

• biodiversity

Match the following

• a decision that is based on observation

• crustaceans

• have protective exoskeleton

• controlled experiment

• something not changed in an experiment

• conclusion

• one variable is changed others are same

• constant

• barrier that controls the flow of water

• Dam

Match the following

• something that offers proof

• exoskeleton

• a procedure to investigate a ?.

• environment

• information gathered in experiement

• evidence

• everything that surrounds an organism

• experiment

• hard outer shell covering some animals

• data

Match the following

• a beavers home

• hibernation

• state where animal rests when cold

• lodge

• The place where an animal lives

• hypothesis

• a prediction about how something works

• instinct

• not taught just known

• habitat

Match the following

• change in form in lifecycle

• opinion

• related to night

• metamorphosis

• how one thinks

• organism

• to shed skin

• nocturnal

• a living thing

• molt

Match the following

• steps that tell how to do something

• plankton

• happening with no order

• random

• tiny forms of plants in water

• response

• action taking automatically

• procedure

• the reaction to stimuli

• reflex

Match the following

• an element in an experiment that changes

• variable

• small animals with large front teeth

• rodents

• an outside influence on an organism

• structure

• the way parts of an animal are arranged

• stimulus

• divided into sections

• segmented