3rd Grade Science Vocabulary: Animals

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3rd Grade Science Vocabulary Animals Plants of
Georgia

• Mrs. Thornburgs version

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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

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

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Habitat

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What do we call a high, raised part of Earths
surface?

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Mountain

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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
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Piedmont

Blue Ridge
Cumberland Plateau
Ridge and Valley
Piedmont
Coastal Plains
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What do we call not having too many or too few of
any kind of living thing?
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Balance
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What do we call a long period of time with very
little rain?

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Drought

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What do we call everything that surrounds a
living thing?

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Environment

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

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Trait

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

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Wetland

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

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Hibernation

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

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Camouflage

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What is another word for to stay alive?

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Survive

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

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Migration

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

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Reproduce

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

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Adaptation

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What do we call imitating the appearance or
behavior of a different, more dangerous animal
for protection?
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Mimicry
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What do we call all living and non-living things
that interact in one place?
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Ecosystem
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What do we call an area of low, flat land near an
ocean?
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Coastal plain