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Animals
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11
Science
6th Grade
11/04/2008

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Term
Vertebrate
Definition
The bones that make up the backbone of an animal.
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Invertebrate
Definition
An animal that has no backbone.
Term
Closed Circulatory System
Definition
A circulatory system in which blood moves only within a connected network of tubes called blood vessels.
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Gill
Definition
An organ that removes oxygen from water.
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Herbivore
Definition
An animal that eats only plants.
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Carnivore
Definition
An animal that eats only other animals.
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Omnivore
Definition
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
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Food Chain
Definition
A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy.
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Producer
Definition
An organism that can make its own food.
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Consumer
Definition
An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms.
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Decomposer
Definition
An organims that breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
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