Life Science 7A Voc 12 Flashcards

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1
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Trait that helps an organism survive

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Adaptation

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2
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Repeated movement of carbon between Earth’s atmosphere and organisms

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Carbon Cycle

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3
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Consumer that eats only animals

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Carnivore

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4
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Relationship between two different species in which one is benefitted and the other is unaffected

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Comensalism

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5
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Struggle for resources in an ecosystem

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Competition

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6
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Changing of gas into a liquid

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Condensation

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7
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Organism that obtains food be eating other organisms

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Consumer

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8
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Organism that breaks down the wastes or remains of other organisms

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Decomposer

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9
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Excessive cutting of forests

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Deforestation

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10
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Species of living organisms in danger of becoming extinct

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Endangered Species

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11
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Way of showing how energy moves through a food chain decreasing at each level

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Energy Pyramid

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12
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Changing of liquid to a gas

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Evaporation

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13
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Way of showing how the energy from food moves through populations of organisms in a community

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Food Chain

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14
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Way of showing how food chains are related

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Food Web

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15
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Nonrenewable energy source fromed from the remains of plants and animals

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Fossil Fuel

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16
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Consumer that eats only plants

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Herbivore

17
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Organism that makes its own food

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Producer

18
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Organism a parasite feeds off or on

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Host

19
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Relationship between two species live on, in or near each other and both are benefited

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Mutualism

20
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Repeated movement of nitrogen and its compounds between the atmosphere, the soil, and living organisms

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Nitrogen Cycle

21
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Consumer that eats both plants and animals

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Omnivore

22
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Relationship between two different kinds of organisms in which one lives on, off, or in the other and causes it harm

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Parasitism

23
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Water that falls to Earth from the atmosphere

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Precipitation

24
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Relationship in which an organism kills and eats another organism

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Predation

25
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Organism that kills and eats another organism

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Predator

26
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Organism that is killed and eaten by another organism

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Prey

27
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Organism that feeds on only dead animals

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Scavenger

28
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Relationship between different species living in close relationship with each other in which at least one is benefited

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Symbiosis

29
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Process by which plants lose water through the stomata in their leaves

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Transpiration

30
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Repeated movement of water between Earth’s surface and the atmosphere

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Water Cycle