Words Related to Nature Study

• The process by means of which plants and animals breathe – Respiration
• Living for many years – Perennial
• Animals who carry their young in a pouch, e.g. Kangaroo – Marsupials
• The process by which young plants begin to grow – Germination
• The track of a wild animal – Spoor
• The animals of a certain region – Flora
• At home equally on land or in water – Amphibious
• Soil washed down and carried away by rivers – Alluvium
• A cluster of flowers on a branch – Inflorescence
• A thick underground stem – Rhizome
• To supply land with water by artificial means – Irrigate
• The dead skin cast off by a snake – Slough
• The part of the seed that develops into the plant – Embryo, Germ
• The part of embryo that forms the root – Radical
• The process by which plants manufacture food – Assimilation