Science Ch. 1 Vocabulary & Review

The part of the Earth that can support living things

• hemisphere

• biosphere

• biology

• adaptation

the grouping of things according to their similarities

• biosphere

• biology

• naming

• classification

mostly many-celled organisms that often grow in moist, dark places

• fungi

• vascular plant

• nonvascular plant

• nucleus

Nonvascular plants tend to be small and live in moist places.

• plants that pass water from cell to cell

• plants that carry water in tubes

plants that have cells that form tubes for carrying water and nutrients throughout the plants

• nonvascular plants

• vascular plants

• bacteria

• fungi

Bacteria live almost everywhere, including inside your body.

• disease- causing germs

• single-celled organisms

a group of very similar organisms whose members can mate with one another and produce offspring that are able to produce offspring

• entropy

• fungi

• species

• vascular plant

A good guess

• a scientific theory

• a scientific law

the beginning of life

• biogenesis

• entropy

• evolution

• order

Without fungi, we could not bake bread or enjoy mushrooms.

• many-celled organism that make seeds

• plant-like organisms that do not make food