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Plants and Animals
Burtt's Animals and Insects C3
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3rd Grade
07/21/2011

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organism
Definition
an individual living thing, such as a plant, an animal, or a bacteria
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mammal
Definition
an animal that has hair or fur and is fed milk from its mother's body
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reptile
Definition
a land animal that has dry skin covered by scales
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bird
Definition
an animal that has feathers, two legs, and wings
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vertebrate
Definition
an animal that has a skeleton with a backbone inside its body, such as mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish
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invertebrate
Definition
an animal that does not have a backbone or skeleton inside its body, such as insects, spiders, worms, snails, clams, crabs, and squids
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trait
Definition
a body feature that an animal inherits; it can also be some things that an animal does
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fish
Definition
an animal that lives its whole life in water and breathes with gills
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amphibian
Definition
an animal that begins life on land and moves onto land as an adult
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classify
Definition
to put in groups according to things that are similar
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inherit
Definition
to receive traits from parents
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scales
Definition
the small, thin, flat plates that help protect the bodies and fish and reptiles
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gills
Definition
a body part found in fish and young amphibians that takes in oxygen from the water
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