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| Cardiac muscle is | involuntary
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| Why are the nervous and endocrine systems similar? | Both control and coordinate body functions
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| What are the main functions for Skeletal | provides structure, support and protection; makes red blood cells
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| What are the main functions for Muscular | Helps the body move; provides body heat
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| What are the main functions for Cardiovascular | Transports waste, nutrients and gases to and from all parts of the body
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| what are the main functions for Respiratory | Carries oxygen and carbon dioxide out of lungs; exchanges gases
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| What are the main functions for Digestive | Breaks down food
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| What are the main functions for Excretory | Eliminates waste
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| What are the main functions for Nervous | Controls and coordinates body systems; responds to stimuli
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| What are the main functions for Immune | Protects body from germs; fights infections
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| What are the main functions for Reproductive | Sperm and Egg combine to make offspring
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| After oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged in the lungs, a vessel carries the gases to the rest of the body. What is the name of this vessel? | Arteries carry it to the rest of the body and Capillaries exchange
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| How are organisms organized? | Cell - Tissue - Organ - Organ System
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| When food is digested, what fluid carries the nutrients, vitamins and minerals to all other cells of the body | Blood
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| What are 2 ways to measure a human body's response to exercise | Heart rate and Blood pressure
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| What is the function of Red Blood Cell | Carries Oxygen
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| What is the function of White Blood Cell | Fights infection
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| Neuron | Sends messages (impulses between body and brain
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| Skin Cell | Protects inside of body
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| Who is the man credited with natural selection and evolution | Charles Darwin
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| What is an adaptation | A trait that helps and organism survive in its environment
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| Give an example of an adaption. | Duck- webbed feet-can swim in water...oily feathers-waterproof the body while swimming and getting food...flat beak-for scooping algae and seaweed
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| How does variation happen | Sexual Reproduction and mutations
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| What is natural selection | Survival of offspring with helpful traits, those traits are passed to offspring
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| What is evolution | How a species changes over time
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| List 3 pieces of evidence supporting the theory evolution | Fossil Records - show changes in a species
DNA - can show if different species are closely related
Similar Structures - compare to structures of living animals, look for similarities
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| Where would you find the oldest fossils | lowest layers of sediment
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| What is the ecosystem | Living and non living things interacting in the same place
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| Nutrients, water, oxygen and nitrogen all move through cycles in an ecosystem. this allows them to be what? | reused/recycled over again
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| What type of organism begins each food chain | Producer
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| What is a food web | Interconnected food chains
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| Name a consumer in the energy pyramid | Sea urchin, sheephead, sea bass
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| Explain what happens to the amount of energy and the number of organisms as you move up each level of an energy pyramid | As you move up the pyramid, the amount of energy and the number of organisms decrease
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| What is the difference between a population and community | Population: same type or kind of organism living in the same place
Community: All the populations (many species) interacting in the same place
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| What are the stages of succession | Grass - bushes/shrubs - Pine Trees - All trees
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| What is an invasive species | Organism not native to the area (not originally from area) and can be very harmful to the ecosystem
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| List all the effects that an invasive species can have on an ecosystem: | Mess up food chains/food webs ("all things are linked") because...
-Out-complete native species for food, space, water, shelter, etc.
-Often have no natural predators in the new environment and therefore spread quickly
-May cause disease
-May eat the
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| Define symbios | Organisms involved in a close relationship that may be harmful or helpful
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| Define parasitism | Relationship between two different kinds of organisms in which one lives in or on the other and causes it harm
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| Define decomposer | absorbs nutrients from dead/decaying organisms
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| Define competition | Struggle for resources, mates, etc. in the environment
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| Define Scavenger | Animal that eats already dead animals
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| Define producer | Base of the energy pyramid
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| List 4 limiting factors of animal | -food
-water
-space
-mates
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| Define sun | Energy source for most ecosystems
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| Define invasive species | non-native organism to an area; may disrupt food chains; often hurts native organisms; often has no natural predators
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