Teaching Activity Guide - Sylvan Dell Publishing

GlossaryWord Definition Part ofSpeechabdomen the back of the three main body noun: bodydivisions of an insect: contains major partorgansadapt to change, to alter, to adjust to a verbchanging environment or situationadaptation a physical or behavioral feature of nouna plant or animal that allows it tosurvive in its environmentadult the final stage of an animal that goes nounthrough metamorphosisanimal any member of the kingdomnounAnimalia: can move voluntarily, getand eat food, and respond to stimuliantennaearthropodattractbackbonelong, thin, feelers from an insect'shead that inform it about the feel,sound, taste, smell, temperature, andhumidity in the world outside of itsskeleton (plural is antenna)animals with exoskeletons, jointedlegs, and segmented bodies (includesinsects, spiders, crustaceans,centipedes, and millipedes)to pull towards, to make somethingmove closerthe vertebrae forming the axis of theskeleton and protecting the spinalcordnoun: bodypartnoun:verbnoun: bodypartSpanishabdomenadaptaradaptaciónadultoanimalantenaArtrópodoatraercolumnavertebral,espinadorsalbarnyard the area on a farm where animals live noun corralbask to lie in or be exposed to a pleasant verb tomar el solwarmth (sunshine)behavior an organism's actions and responsesto its environment and otherorganisms in that same environmentnoun conductaSylvan Dell Publishing 31