Grade 5: Vocabulary Bio

Question 1

biography

Answer 1

a piece of writing about a person’s life written by someone else

Question 2

antibiotic

Answer 2

a medicine used to save lives because it destroys harmful bacteria and cures infections

Question 3

biologist

Answer 3

a person who studies living things

Question 4

biosphere

Answer 4

the zone of planet Earth where there is life (between the deep crust and the lower atmosphere)

Question 5

neurobiology

Answer 5

the study of the nervous system of living things and how it helps the living things learn and react

Question 6

symbiosis

Answer 6

how two different living organisms live together and depend on each other

Question 7

biology

Answer 7

the study of living things

Question 8

macrobiotic diet

Answer 8

a diet thought to help people live longer because it focuses on natural foods

Question 9

biopsy

Answer 9

the removal of living tissue from the body for diagnostic examination

Question 10

autobiography

Answer 10

a piece of writing written by a person about his or her own life