- Synonyms: animal, plant, creature, being, life form
- Antonym: object
- Related words: organize, organ
- Origin: 1664, from L. organum meaning "instrument, organ" related to Greek ergon meaning "work"
- Example: All living organisms have to adapt to changes in their habitats.
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What other categories of organisms are missing from this chart activity?
8 comments:
Gabby says...
You are missing the organism that lays eggs but is not a bird. What is it?
Jason says
The people in my in my family are my favorite organisms.WOO HOO!!!!!
Ashaylah says
There are multiple organism like me i am a organism. do u no that people are organisms some people don't no that. We are mammals and mammals are organisms .
Tye says
The other organisms that are missing from the chart
are reptiles, amphibians.
Syreena says.......
There's all kinds of organisms like horses and birds and bugs just about any thing moving or just has life in them.I knew what this word means at first and I was absent!!!!
Jace says another organism that could be a category is a squrrel,perry dog, a blue bird,black bear,and a panther
Cheyenne says...
Every living thing (I'm not trying to be vague) that breaths is an organism because if things that don't breath become an organism than it would become completely futile!
Jaycee says...
Cheyenne you are right but, animals that live underwater also are organisms!
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