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Differences among living things.

What is Biodiversity?

The physical place where organisms live.

What is a habitat?

The connection between living things.

What is interrelationship?

The ability to continue on with relatively little change.

What is Stability?

Groups of plants and animals that regularly occur together in an ecosystem

What is a Natural Community?

A distinguishing quality or feature of something.

What is a Characteristic?

A system of organizing things into groups based on similar characteristics.

What is Classification?

A field of science that describes, identifies, and classifies organisms.

What is Taxonomy?

The number of “basic” levels of classifying living things.

What is 7?

The levels of classification (in order) from general to specific.

What are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species?

Animals with no spinal columns.

What are invertebrates?

Segmented worms.

What are Annelids?

Soft bodied animals that have a shell, such as snails and clams.

What are Mollusks?

8 legged creatures like spiders and scorpions.

What are Arachnids?

The characteristics of arthropods (insects, arachnids, and crustaceans).

What are Exoskeleton, Segmented Body Parts, Jointed Appendages, Compound Eyes, Specialized Mouth Piece?

Warm blooded vertebrates with wings feathers and beaks, whose babies hatch from eggs.

What are birds?

Cold blooded vertebrates with soft moist skin that spend part of their life in water and part of their life on land.

What are Amphibians.

Warm blooded vertebrates with hair that drink milk when they are young.

What are Mammals?

Cold blooded vertebrates with scales that breathe air and usually lay eggs on land.

What are reptiles?

Cold blooded vertebrates that live in water, have scales and fins, and use gills to breathe.

What are Fish?

Any living thing.

What is an Organism?

The five Kingdoms.

What are Monera, Protista, Plantae, Animalia, and Fungi.

The characteristics of Animals (vertebrates and invertebrates).

What are multicellular, able to move, specialized parts, and consumers.

These make up more than 95% of all animal species.

What are invertebrates.

Animals with a spinal column.

What are vertebrates?

The 5 categories of Vertebrates.

What are mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians.

The characteristics of living things.

What are reproduce, use food for energy, develop and grow, produce waste, respire, respond to their environment, and death?

The characteristics of vertebrates.

What are reproduce sexually, jaws, braincase, bilateral symmetry, and an internal skeleton

A complex system where living things interact.

What is an Ecosystem?

Three reasons why biodiversity is important.

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