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Living Things Words 04/01/2013 Flashcards

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Adaptation

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ad·ap·ta·tion

  • *Part of Speech:** noun
  • *Own:** a structure or feature of an organism that helps it meet a particular need in its natural habitat
  • *Dictionary:** a trait or characteristic that helps an organism survive
  • *Antonym:**
  • *Synonym:** adjustment; alteration

Why don’t humans have an adaptation to be immune to the flu?

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Astronomer

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as·tron·o·mer

  • *Part of Speech:** noun
  • *Own:** a scientific observer of the celestial bodies; an expert in astronomy
  • *Dictionary:** one who studies the stars and planets and their movement
  • *Antonym:**
  • *Synonym:** stargazer; uranologist

I read about the astronomer Galileo Galilei in Science today.

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Bladder

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blad·der

Part of Speech: noun
Own: organ that holds urine
Dictionary: organ in the excretory system that stores and releases urine
Antonym:
Synonym:

My uncle has sugery on his bladder two years ago.

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Carnivore

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car·ni·vore

  • *Part of Speech:** noun
  • *Own:** an animal that eats other animals
  • *Dictionary:** An animal that feeds chiefly on the flesh of other animals.
  • *Antonym:** herbivore
  • *Synonym:** hunter; killer; meat-eater; predator

Many humans are not carnivores, but many definitely love their meat.

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Circulatory System

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cir·cu·la·to·ry sys·tem

  • *Part of Speech:** noun
  • *Own:** a system of organs and tissues involved in circulating blood and lynphs through the body
  • *Dictionary:** the system of organs and tissues, including the heart, blood, blood vessels, lymph, lymphatic vessels, and lymph glands, involved in circulating blood and lymph through the body.
  • *Antonym:**
  • *Synonym:**

The Circulatory System controls blood and lymphs

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Consumer

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con·sum·er

  • *Part of Speech:** noun
  • *Own: **person who buys merchandise, services
  • *Dictionary:** a person who buys or uses goods or services
  • *Antonym:** marketer; merchandiser
  • *Synonym:** buyer; purchaserI wish I was producer so I would never be hungry, but I am stuck being a consumer.
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Decomposer

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de·com·pos·er

Part of Speech: noun
Own: consumers that break down the tissues of dead organisms
**Dictionary: **an organism, usually a bacterium or fungus, that breaks down the cells of dead plants and animals into simpler substances.
Antonym:
Synonym:

Worms are the most common decomposers.

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Digestive System

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di·ges·tive sys·tem

  • *Part of Speech:** noun
  • *Own:** the system by which ingested food is acted upon to privde the body with nutrients and excrete waste products
  • *Dictionary:** the system by which ingested food is acted upon by physical and chemical means to provide the body with absorbable nutrients and to excrete waste products
  • *Antonym:**
  • *Synonym:**

The Digestive System is what makes you use the restroom.

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Ecosystem

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ec·o·sys·tem

  • *Part of Speech:** noun
  • *Own:** Earth’s system of natural resources and living things
  • *Dictionary:** a community of organisms and the environment in which they live
  • *Antonym:**
  • *Synonym:** ecological; environment

Humans made a major impact on the ecosystem.

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Egg

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Egg

Part of Speech: noun
Own: embryo of an animal
Dictionary: the female gamete
Antonym:
Synonym: ovum, nucleus, seed

Chickens lay eggs.

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Embryo

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em·bry·o

Part of Speech: noun
Own: The tiny plant that forms from the fertilized egg
Dictionary: a baby or young animal as it starts to grow in the womb; anything in its earliest stages of development
Antonym:
Synonym: fetus; organism; nucleus; egg

I want to see an embryo.

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Exoskeleton

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ex·o·skel·e·ton

  • *Part of Speech:** noun
  • *Own:** an hard outer cover that protects the body
  • *Dictionary:** a hard outer covering, found in many types of animals, that supports and protects the body
  • *Antonym:**
  • *Synonym:**

Roaches have exoskeletons.

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Extinction

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ex·tinc·tion

  • *Part of Speech:** noun
  • *Own:** dying out to the point of disappearing
  • *Dictionary:** the death of all the organisms of a certain kind of living thing.
  • *Antonym:** conserve; preserve
  • *Synonym**: death; elimination

Dinosaurs went through extinction long ago.

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Food Chain

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Food Chain

Part of Speech: noun
Own: the ways in which the organisms in an ecosystem interact with one another according to what they eat
Dictionary: a sequence of organisms in an ecosystem in which each species is the food of the next member of the chain
Antonym:
Synonym: food cycle; food web

Lions are at the top of the food chain.

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Habitat

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hab·i·tat

  • *Part of Speech:** noun
  • *Own:** a place in an ecosystem where a population lives
  • *Dictionary:** the place where an organism lives and can find everything it needs to survive
  • *Antonym:** unnatural surroundings
  • *Synonym:** residence; environment; surroundings

A whale’s habitat is the ocean.

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Herbivore

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her·bi·vore

Part of Speech: noun
Own: an animal that eats plants
Dictionary: plant-eater
Antonym:
Synonym: fruitarian; vegan

I am not a herbivore since I had steak for dinner last night.

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Inherited

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in·her·it·ed

Part of Speech: noun / adjective
Own: hereditary
Dictionary: a characteristic that passed from parent to offspring
Antonym:
Synonym: genetic; rooted

I inherited $5,000,000,000 from a lost relative.

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Instinct

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in·stinct

  • *Part of Speech:** noun
  • *Own:** a behavior that an organism inherits
  • *Dictionary:** a behavior that an organism inherits and knows how to do without being taught
  • *Antonym:** knowledge; urge
  • *Synonym:** intuition; sense; feeling

I have a lot of faith in my instincts.

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Kidney

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kid·ney

  • *Part of Speech:** noun
  • *Own:** either of the two organs that remove waste products from the blood
  • *Dictionary:** organs in the human excretory system that removes waste materials from the blood
  • *Antonym:**
  • *Synonym:**

My mom used to suffer from kidney infections all childhood life.

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Larva

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lar·va

Part of Speech: noun
Own: the young of any invertebrate animal; any animal in an analogous immature form
Dictionary: the immature, wingless, feeding stage of an insect that undergoes complete metamorphosis
Antonym:
Synonym:

A caterpillar is a larva.

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Life Cycle

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Life Cy·cle

Part of Speech: noun
Own: processes of lifeform
Dictionary: The series of distinct stages of life that most organisms grow and mature through
Antonym:
Synonym: lifetime, life process, wheel of life

I don’t know when my life cycle will end.

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Liver

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liv·er

  • *Part of Speech:** noun
  • *Own:** an organ of the body that processes food and cleans the blood
  • *Dictionary:** a large organ that makes a digestive juice called bile
  • *Antonym:**
  • *Synonym:**

The liver helps my body keep a perfect digestive state.

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Metamorphosis

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met·a·mor·pho·sis

  • *Part of Speech:** noun
  • *Own:** any complete change in appearance, character, circumstances, etc.
  • *Dictionary:** A change in the shape or characteristics of an organism’s body as it grows
  • *Antonym:** stagnation
  • *Synonym:** evolution, translation, rebirth,

Butterfiles go through a beautiful metamorphosis.

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Nervous System

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nerv·ous sys·tem

  • *Part of Speech:** noun
  • *Own:** The system of cells, tissues, and organs that regulates the body’s responses to internal and external stimuli.
  • *Dictionary**: the system of nerves and nerve centers in an animal or human, including the brain, spinal cord, nerves, and ganglia.
  • *Antonym:** None
  • *Synonym:** central nervous system

My nervous system was stimulated and I was very hyper.

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Nymph

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Nymph

Part of Speech: noun
Own: the incomplete metamorphosis of a young insect
Dictionary: the young of an insect that undergoes incomplete metamorphosis
Antonym:
Synonym:

Butterflies don’t have nymphs.

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Omnivore

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om·ni·vore

Part of Speech: noun
Own: an animal that eats both plants and other animals
Dictionary: an animal whose normal diet includes both plants and animals.
Antonym:
Synonym: predator; hunter

Most humans are omnivores.

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Organs

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or·gans

  • *Part of Speech:** noun
  • *Own:** tissues that work together to perform a specific function
  • *Dictionary:** a body part that is made of smaller parts that work together to do a certain job
  • *Antonym:** part
  • *Synonym:** none

The heart is one of our many organs.

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Pancreas

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pan·cre·as

  • *Part of Speech:** noun
  • *Own:** a gland that secretes digestive fluids and insulin
  • *Dictionary:** a gland, situated near the stomach, that secretes a digestive fluid into the intestine through one or more ducts and also secretes the hormone insulin.
  • *Antonym:**
  • *Synonym:**

Diabetes causes weakening in the Pancreas.

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Photosynthesis

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pho·to·syn·the·sis

Part of Speech: noun
Own:how plants get food
Dictionary: the process by which plants make food
Antonym:
Synonym:

THe roots are the first part of photosynthesis.

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Producer

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pro·duc·er

Part of Speech: noun
Own: organisms that make their own food
Dictionary: a person who creates economic value, or produces goods and services
Antonym:
Synonym: assembler; fabricator; inventor

Plants are producers since they make their own food.

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Pupa

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pu·pa

Part of Speech: noun
Own: an insect in the nonfeeding, usually immobile, transformation stage between the larva and the imago.
Dictionary: an insect at the immobile nonfeeding stage of development between larva and adult, when many internal changes occur
Antonym:
Synonym: chrysalis, cocoon

Most insect pupa are extremely unattractive.

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Reproductive System

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re·pro·duc·tive sys·tem

  • *Part of Speech:** noun
  • *Own:** the organ system that allows us to reproduce
  • *Dictionary:** the system of organs involved with animal reproduction
  • *Antonym:**
  • *Synonym:**

A female Reproductive System allows them to have babies.

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Respiration

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res·pi·ra·tion

Part of Speech: noun
Own: the process that gives us energy
Dictionary: the process that releases energy from food
Antonym:
Synonym: breathing

Humans perform respiration through their noses and lungs.

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Respiratory System

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res·pi·ra·to·ry sys·tem

  • *Part of Speech:** noun
  • *Own:** the breathing system
  • *Dictionary:** the system by which oxygen is taken into the body and an exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place
  • *Antonym:**
  • *Synonym:**

When I get the flu, my Respiratory System is affected.

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Scavenger

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scav·en·ger

Part of Speech: noun
Own: an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
Dictionary: an animal that eats the remains of animals that have died
Antonym:
Synonym: hunter; scrounger

Scavengers are not decomposers.

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Transpiration

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tran·spi·ra·tion

Part of Speech: noun
Own: when plants give off water
Dictionary: the process in which plants give off water through their stomata
Antonym:
Synonym:

The idea of transpiration is very confusing to my brother.

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System

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sys·tem

  • *Part of Speech:** noun
  • *Own:** Organs that work together to perform a function
  • *Dictionary**: an organism considered as a functioning entity
  • *Antonym:** cog, part
  • *Synonym:** order, whole

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