Angel – Living things volcabulary

LIVING ORGANISMS VOCABULARY TASK
Your task is to find the definition of the word and find a picture/diagram to help you understand what it is.           You might want to use this dictionary, or you may need to do more research. The first one is done for you 🙂
  • Living organism
 Anything that has life and consists of cells as its basic unit of organisation. Examples of living organisms include humans, fungi, algae, trees, animals, bacteria, protozoa, and insects.
  • Non-living thing
 An object or something that doesn’t breathe air
  • Characteristic
 A quality or trait that makes a person, thing or contingent different.
  • Classification
 The act or process of dividing things into groups according to their type. 
  • Cell
 Cells are the basic building blocks of all living things.
  • Habitat
 A place where organisms call home
  • Biodiversity
 The different kinds of life you’ll find in one area.
  • Ecosystem
 A specific area where living organisms could be found
  • Adapt
 To make or become something suitable
  • Consumer
 A person (/living organism) that consumes a product or service.
  • Producer
 A plant or algae that can produce its own food for itself by the heat from the sun.
  • Decomposer
 Organisms that break down dead organic material
  • Food chain
 A series of organisms that eat one another so that energy and nutrients flow from one to next
  • Carnivore
 A meat eater
  • herbivore
 An animal that eats only plants
  • omnivore
 An animal that eats both plants and meat 
  • chlorophyll 
 A pigment that gives plants their colour and helps the plants function through photosynthesis 
  • photosynthesis
 The process by which plants use sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to create oxygen energy and energy to form sugar
  • Gondwana
 An ancient supercontinent that incorporated present day South America, Africa, Arabia, Madagascar, India, Australia and antarctica
  • Endemic
 An organism that is restricted or peculiar to a locality or region
  • Native
 Refers to species that occur naturally in a given geographic area
  • Introduced species
 Those that have been moved by humans to an environment where they didn’t occur naturally
  • Pest
 Adversely affect the rich biodiversity on which life depends
  • Conservation
 Protection and derive sustainable benefits for present and future generation