Answer Key to: Vocabulary Exercise for Lesson Plan on
Migration, Nomadism and Dormancy
Match each of the words in the list below to the definitions:
1. anaerobic, 2. biome, 3. brackish, 4. class, 5. diurnal, 6. estivation,
7. genus, 8. hibernation, 9. implode, 10. intraspecific, 11. inverse,
12. metamorphosis, 13. nocturnal, 14. oxygenate, 15. range, 16. resident,
17. species, 18. taxonomy, 19. torpor, 20. vertebrate.
3. somewhat salty; not as salty as sea water; usually occurs in the locations
where fresh water meets sea water.
20. a member of the Kingdom Animalia which has a spinal chord (Phylum
Chordata) encased in vertebrae. This includes the mammals, birds, reptiles,
amphibians, and fishes.
6. a period when an animal is inactive because of drought and/or extreme heat.
1. living, active, occurring, or existing in the absence of free oxygen; or adverse
to oxygen.
5. active during the day.
8. the long winter dormancy of warm and cold blooded vertebrates in which
metabolism is drastically reduced and body temperature lowered to near the level
of the environment.
10. occurring within a species or involving members of one species.
11. reversed in position, order, direction or tendency; turned upside down.
18. the classification of organisms to show relationships between them.
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the largest geographic biotic unit, a major community of plants and animals
with similar life forms and environmental conditions.
9. to suddenly collapse inward.
15. the region throughout which a species naturally lives.
Migration, Nomadism, Dormancy Lesson Plan -- Vocabulary Exercise Answer Key
13. active at night.
12. a transfiguration: a striking change in appearance, character, or
circumstances.
14. to impregnate, combine, or supply with oxygen; occurs in the lungs or gills
of animals.
17. a category of biological classification ranking immediately below the genus
or subgenus, comprising related organisms or populations potentially capable of
interbreeding.
19. a state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility
which usually lasts a few hours and is accompanied by a mild reduction in
metabolism and body temperature.
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Migration, Nomadism, Dormancy Lesson Plan -- Vocabulary Exercise Answer Key