33rdrd Grade Science Vocabulary: Grade Science Vocabulary: Animals & Plants of GeorgiaAnimals & Plants of Georgia

Mrs. Thornburg’s versionMrs. Thornburg’s version

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

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

Habitat

What do we call a high, raised part of Earth’s surface?

Mountain

What do we call the region of Georgia that contains rolling hills and is located between the

coastal plain and the mountains?

Cumberland Plateau

Ridge and Valley

Piedmont

Coastal Plains

Blue Ridge

Piedmont

Cumberland Plateau

Ridge and Valley

Piedmont

Coastal Plains

Blue Ridge

What do we call not having too many or too few of any kind of living thing?

Balance

What do we call a long period of time with very little rain?

Drought

What do we call everything that surrounds a living thing?

Environment

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

Trait

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

Wetland

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

Hibernation

What do we call hiding or disguising something by covering it up or changing the way it looks so it

blends with its environment?

Camouflage

What is another word for “to stay alive”?

Survive

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

Migration

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

Reproduce

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

Adaptation

What do we call imitating the appearance or behavior of a different, more dangerous animal for

protection?

Mimicry

What do we call all living and non-living things that interact in one place?

Ecosystem

What do we call an area of low, flat land near an ocean?

Coastal plain