Body parts SystemsAnimals Depen- dency Plants
The basic unit of structure for all living things.
What is a cell?
Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart
What are arteries?
A watery liquid in the mouth that begins the chemical break down of food.
What is saliva?
Blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart
What are veins?
Chemicals that break down food
What are enzymes?
The body parts that work together to take air into the body and push it back out
What is the respiratory system?
The transport system of the body that carries oxygen and nutrients to the cells and removes wastes
What is the circulatory system?
The organ system in which food is broken down into a form that cells can use
What is the digestive system?
The system of ridding the body of harmful wastes
What is the excretory system?
A group of plants and animals that live in a certain area and depend on one another
What is a community?
To move to another region as the seasons change
What is migration?
An animal that eats only plants
What is an herbivore?
An animal hunted for food by another animal
What is prey?
A living thing that eats other living thing to survive
What is a consumer?
An animal with a backbone
What is a vertebrate?
Any substance used by living things for energy, growth, repair or other life processes
What is a nutrient?
A place where an animal or plant lives
What is a habitat?
Swamps, marshes, and bogs that are home to many kinds of animals and plants
What are wetlands?
The surroundings that affect a living thing
What is the environment?
A place where living and non-living things interact
What is an ecosystem?
The part of the plant that makes seeds
What is a flower?
A tree or shrub that bears its seed in cones
What is a conifer?
The sprouting of a seed
What is germination?
A plant part in which photosynthesis takes place
What is a leaf?
The process by which producers (plants) make their own food using energy from the sun
What is photosynthesis?