Vocabulary #8 (Complex animals)

Definitions:

1. jointed-leg animal: invertebrate with an outside skeleton.
2. appendage: structure that grows out of an animal body.
3. exoskeleton: skeleton on the outside of the body.
4. molting: shelding the exoskeleton.
5. antennae: appendages of the head used for sensing smell and touch.
6. compund eyes: eyes with many lenses.
7. spiny-skin animal: invertebrate with a five part body design and spines.
8. tube feet; parts like suctions cups that help to get food, attach and move.
9. chordate: animal, that in some point of his live, has, a tough, flexible rod along it's back.
10. endoskeleton: skeleton inside the body.
11. cold-blooded: having body temperature that changes with the temperature of the surroundings.
12. gill: structure used to breathe in water.
13.  jawless fish: fish that have no jaw and are not covered by scales.
14. cartilage: tough flexible tissue that supports and shapes the body.
15. cartilage fish: fish in which the entire skeleton is made of cartilage.
16. bony fish: fishes that have skeleton made mostly of bone.
17. amphibian: animal that lives part of his live in water and the other part in land.
18. hibernation: state of being inactive during cold weather.
19. reptile: animal with dry, scaly skin and live on land.
20. warm-blooded: controling the body temperature so its stays about the same no matter the surrounding's temperature.
21. mammal: animal with hair that feeds milk to its young.
22. mammary glands: body parts that produce milk.

Illustrations:

1- jointed-leg animal:

2- appendage

3-exoskeleton

4- molting

5- antennae

6- compound eye

7- spiny-skin animal

8- tube feet

9-chordate

10- endoskeleton

11-  cold-blooded

12- gill

13- jawless fish

14- cartilage

15- cartilage fish

16- bony fish

17- amphibian

18- hibernation

19- reptile

20- warm-blooded

21- mammal

22- mammary gland

Vocabulary #7 (Simple animals)

Definitions:

1) vertebrates: animals with backbone
2) invertebrate: animals without backbone
3) symmetry: the balanced arrangement of body parts around a center point or along a center line.
4) sponge: simple invertebrates with pores.
5) pores: small opening.
6) stinging-cell animal: animals with stinging cells and hollow, sacklike bodies that lack arms.
7) tentacles: armlike parts that surround the mouth.
8) flatworm: the simplest worms.
9) tapeworm: kind of flatworm that has a flattened, ribbonlike body divided into parts.
10) cyst: young worm with a protective coat.
11) planarian: common freshwater flatworm that is not a parasite.
12) roundworm: worm with long body and pointed end.
13) hookworm: roundworm that is parasite for humans.
14) anus: opening in wich undigested food leaves the body.
15) segmented worms: worms divided into sections (segments)
16) soft-bodied animal: animals with a soft body usually protected by a hard shell.
17)  mantle: thin fleshy tissue.


Illustrations:



1- vertebrates

 2- invertebrate

 3- symmetry

4- sponge

5- pore

6- stinging- cell animal

7- tentacle

8- flatworm

9- tapeworm

10- cyst

11- planarian

12- roundworm

13- hookworm

14- anus

15- segmented worm

16- soft-bodied animal

17- mantle

Vocabulary #6 (Plants)

Definitions:

1) Chlorophyll: chemical that gives plants their green color and traps light energy.
2) Photosyntesis: process in wich plants use water, carbon dioxide, and energy from the sun to make food.
3) Vascular plant: plant that has tubelike cells in their roots, stems and leaves to carry food and water.
4) Nonvascular plant: plants that don't have tubelike cells in their stem and leaves.
5) Moss: small, nonvascular plant that has both stem and leaves but no roots.
6) Sexual reproduction: the forming of a new organism by the union of two reproductive cells.
7) Egg: female reproductive cell.
8) Sperm: male reproductive cell.
9) Fertilization: join of egg and sperm.
10) Xylem: cell that carries water and disolved minerals from the roots to the leaves.
11) Phloem: cell that carries food that is made in the leaves to all parts of the plant.
12) Fern: is a vascular plant that reproduces with spores.
13) Seed: part of the plant that contains a new, young plant and stored food.
14) Embryo:an organism in the earliest stage of grouth.
15) Conifer: plant that produces seed in cones.
16) Pollen: tiny grains of seed plants in wich sperm develops.
17) Flowering plant: vascular plant that produces seeds inside a flower.
18) Flower: reproductive part of the plant.

Illustrations:

1) Chlorophyll

2) Photosyntesis

 3) Vascular plant

4) Nonvascular plant

5) Moss

6)Sexual reproduction

7) Egg

8) Sperm

9) Fertilization

10) Xylem

11) Phloem

12)  Fern

13) Seed

14) Embryo

15) Conifer

16) Pollen

17) Flowering plant

18) Flower