| Adaptations | | kingdom of single-celled organisms |
| Classification | | an organism that is too small to see clearly with the naked eye |
| Dichotomous | | the building blocks from which all living things are made |
| Kingdom | | an organism that cannot manufacture food and so need to consume other organisms |
| Organism | | "dividing into 2 branches". Dichotomous keys have 2 choices at every junction |
| Vertebrate | | a living thing |
| Invertebrate | | an organism that can manufacture its own food, usually from sunlight and air |
| Autotroph | | animal with a backbone |
| Heterotroph | | organisms made of multiple cells working together |
| Bacteria | | kingdom of organisms which are multicellular, heterotrophic and have a cell wall |
| Animals | | organisms made of a single cell |
| Plants | | animal without a backbone |
| Fungi | | features that allow an organism to survive in its environment |
| Microscope | | instrument which enlarges images of very small things |
| Micro-organism | | kingdom of organisms which are multicellular, heterotrophic and have no cell wall |
| Cells | | sorting a group of things into smaller groups with common observable features |
| Unicellular | | the broadest groups of living things. Life on Earth is classified into 4 Kingdoms |
| Multicellular | | kingdom of organisms which are multicellular, autotrophic and have a cell wall |