Unit 2 Science Vocabulary Review

What does the word investigate mean?

• Differences

• to try to learn more about something

• to get something that is passed down

• tiny parts that make up living things

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The color of your eyes, the shape of your nose, or the color of your hair are all examples of a ______

• trait

• investigation

• life cycle

• evidence

What is the definition of a pattern?

• a living thing

• something that is cold

• something we observe to be similar over and over again

• differences

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Which is the term for a living thing such as a plant or animal?

• variation

• genes

• environment

• organism

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What is an environment?

• all the living and nonliving things in an area

• differences

• a living thing, such as an animal

• to notice how two or more things are alike or different

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To get certain traits, organisms ________ genes from their parents

• environment

• observe

• inherit

• compare

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Living things that come from parents are called ______

• observation

• offspring

• evidence

• investigate

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What does the word reproduce mean?

• to make offspring

• variation

• environment

• trait

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Instructions for making a living thing that are found in cells and passed from parents to offspring are ______

• microscopes

• species

• genes

• cells

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If you are planning to observe something, what are you going to do?

• to get something passed down

• differences

• instructions for making a living thing

• to use any of the 5 senses to gather information about something

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