Essential Questions:

  • How are plants and animals classified?
  • How do plants reproduce?
  • How do plants make food?
  • What are adaptations?
  • What plant and animal characteristics are inherited?
  • How do animals respond to the environment?

Vocabulary:

  • adaptation
  • characteristics
  • chlorophyll
  • classify
  • fertilization
  • germinate
  • inherit
  • instinct


  • invertebrates
  • photosynthesis
  • pistil
  • pollination
  • sepal
  • stamen
  • stimulus
  • vertebrates