After the human body we will continue with life sciences.
Students will be categorizing living things, learning about energy pyramids, comparing organisms, among other things.
Here are some vocabulary words students will be exposed to
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| 1. | amphibian | cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water | |
| 2. | arthropod | A group of organisms that have jointed appendages, an exoskeleton, bilateral symmetry. Includes insects, arachnids, and crustaceans | |
| 3. | bird | An warm blooded vertebrate that is covered in feathers, breathes through lungs and lays hard-shelled eggs. | |
| 4. | cone | Reproductive structures of most gymnosperms | |
| 5. | exoskeleton | a rigid external covering for the body in some invertebrate animals, especially arthropods, providing both support and protection. | |
| 6. | fish | A cold blooded vertebrate that lives in the water and has fins. | |
| 7. | flower | The reproductive structure of an angiosperm | |
| 8. | function | Purpose | |
| 9. | gills | organs that exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide with water | |
| 10. | leaves | organ of plants that contain photosynthetic systems and provide surface area for photosynthesis to occur | |
| 11. | lungs | An organ found in air-breathing vertebrates that exchanges oxygen and carbon dioxide with the blood | |
| 12. | mammal | warm blooded vertebrates that have hair and produce milk for their young | |
| 13. | organism | An individual living thing | |
| 14. | reptile | An cold blooded vertebrate that lays eggs and has lungs and scaly skin. | |
| 15. | scales | each of the small, thin horny or bony plates protecting the skin of fish and reptiles, typically overlapping one another. | |
| 16. | seed | plant embryo and a food supply encased in a protective covering | |
| 17. | skeleton | The framework that gives the body its recognizable form; also designed to allow motion of the body and protection of vital organs. | |
| 18. | spore | A reproductive cell with a hard, protective coating | |
| 19. | stems | organ of plants that provide structure and transportation, protect against predators, and carries the water up and nutrients down | |
| 20. | structure | The arrangement of parts in an organism |
