1. 3rd Grade Science Vocabulary: Animals & Plants of Georgia
Mrs. Thornburg’s version

2. Vocabulary in 3rd Grade Animals & Plants of Georgia
Habitat Hibernation
Balance Trait
Wetland Mountain
Camouflage Reproduce
Environment Drought
Survive Migration
Piedmont Adaptation
Ecosystem Mimicry
Coastal Plain

3. What do we call the place in an ecosystem where a plant or animal lives?

4. Habitat

5. What do we call a high, raised part of Earth’s surface?

6. Mountain

7. What do we call the region of Georgia that contains rolling hills and is located between the coastal plain and the mountains?
Blue Ridge
Cumberland Plateau
Ridge and Valley
Piedmont
Coastal Plains

8. Piedmont Blue Ridge Cumberland Plateau Ridge and Valley Piedmont
Coastal Plains

9. What do we call not having too many or too few of any kind of living thing?

10. Balance

11. What do we call a long period of time with very little rain?

12. Drought

13. What do we call everything that surrounds a living thing?

14. Environment

15. What do we call a characteristic or feature of a plant or animal?

16. Trait

17. What do we call land that is covered with water most of the time?

18. Wetland

19. What do we call spending cold times in an inactive or resting state?

20. Hibernation

21. What do we call hiding or disguising something by covering it up or changing the way it looks so it blends with its environment?

22. Camouflage

23. What is another word for “to stay alive”?

24. Survive

25. What do we call traveling from one region or climate to another and then back again?

26. Migration

27. What is another word for “to produce (make) new living things?

28. Reproduce

29. What do we call a feature that helps a living thing survive?

30. Adaptation

31. What do we call imitating the appearance or behavior of a different, more dangerous animal for protection?

32. Mimicry

33. What do we call all living and non-living things that interact in one place?

34. Ecosystem

35. What do we call an area of low, flat land near an ocean?

36. Coastal plain