2ndGrade Science Vocabulary
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johnjustin on March 10, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 flower | plant part that makes seeds or fruit. |
| seed | plant part that can grow into a new plant. |
| pollen | sticky powder inside a flower that helps make seeds. |
| seedling | a young plant. |
| minerals | bits of rock and soil that help plants and animals grow. |
| Oxygen | what humans and other animals breathe in order to live. |
| Life Cycle | shows how a living thing grows, lives, makes more of its own kind, and dies. |
| trait | The way plants or animals look or act. |
| mammal | animal with hair or fur that feeds milk to its young. |
| insect | animal with six legs, antennae, and a hard outer shell. |
| larva | stage in the life cycle of some animals after they hatch from an egg. |
| adaptation | body part or way animal acts that helps it stay alive |
| amphibian | an animal that lives part (usually the first part) of its life in water and another part on land. |
| camouflage | a way that animals blend into their surroundings. |
| habitat | a place where plants and animals live. |
| predator | an animal that hunts other animals for food. |
| drought | a long period of time with little or no rain. |
| fossil | what is left of a living thing from the past. |
| food chain | a model of the order in which living things get the food they need. Most food chains start with the Sun. |
| prey | Animals that are hunted by predators. |
| food web | two or more food chains that are connected. |
| endangered | An animal that is in danger of becoming extinct. |
| extinct | A term applied to a species of plant or animal that was once living but now is not. |
| axis | a center line that an object spins around. |
| orbit | the path Earth takes around the Sun. |
| phase | the Moon's shape as we see it from Earth. |
| star | an object in space made of hot, glowing gases. |
| rotation | the spinning of Earth on its axis |
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