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Science Final Part 2
Mr. G
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Science
7th Grade
05/20/2013

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Transmission of characteristics from parent to offspring
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Heredity
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Animal that regulates its body temperature by external means
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Cold-blooded
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An originally created type of organism
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Kind
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Idea that says that the present is the key to the past
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Uniformitarianism
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Surroundings of an organism or group of organisms
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Environment
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Exercise that does not maintain a raised heart rate
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Anaerobic
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Body system that transports nutrients, wastes, and other materials
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Cardiovascular
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The green pigment found in chloroplasts
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Chlorophyll
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Flowering plants are also called
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Angiosperms
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Living thing that can be cut into equal halves in only one direction
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Bilateral
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Organisms that live in or on other organisms to obtain nutrients
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Parasites
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The group used as a standard for comparison when using the scientific method
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Control group
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Sensible explanation to a scientific problem
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Hypothesis
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List starting at producers and arranged in order of what eats what
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Food chain
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Preservation, management, and care of natural resources
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Conservation
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Man’s responsibility to take care of God’s creation
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Stewardship
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An organisms feeding relationship with other animals
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Trophic level
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A tree that loses its leaves in the fall
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Deciduous
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Metamorphosis with steps: Egg, nymph, and adult
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Incomplete
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A chick that hatches with insulating feathers and can run soon after birth
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Precocial
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Migration route that birds follow year after year
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Flyway
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Animals with backbones
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Vertebrates
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The most powerful natural stimulant
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Cocaine
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Large blood vessels that return blood to the heart
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Veins
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Spinal cord and nerves are part of which nervous system
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Central
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Part of a bird egg that become the embryo
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Germinal spot
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The largest known fish
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Whale shark
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Hard shell covering the cephalothorax or come crustaceans
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Carapace
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Prokaryotes are distinguished from eukaryotes by lack of
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Organized nucleus
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What surrounds and protects the cell
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Cell membrane
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Where is a tree’s xylem located
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Wood
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A tree with male and female reproductive parts on separate trees
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Dioecious
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An environment and all its organisms
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Ecosystem
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The range of conditions in which an organism can survive
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Tolerance
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An animal that eats plants
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Herbivore
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An animal species that has been completely wiped out
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Extinct
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Why can mutations no cause evolution
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They do not produce new kinds of organisms
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The belief that nothing is spiritual and that there is no God
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Materialism
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Disease that occurs when the body’s cells begin to divide and grow at an abnormally fast pace
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Cancer
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List the characteristics all mammals share
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Internal skeleton, hair, mammary glands, four-chambered heart
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Introducing ladybugs into an area to remove aphids is
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Biological control
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Single-celled animal-like organisms
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Protozoa
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What is the main function of the biochemical cycles
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Recycle minerals and other nutrients in the environment
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What is the portion of earth where life exists
Definition
Biosphere
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