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Review Words Vocabulary

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Term
Definition
Classify   to put things into groups  
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Kingdom   is the highest most general group of organisms  
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Phylum   the level of classification of living things below kingdom  
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Class   the level of classification below phylum  
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Species   the lowest level of classification  
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Vertebrates   an animal with a backbone  
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Invertebrate   an animal without a backbone  
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Dichotomous key   is a tool that allows the user to determine the identity of items in the natural world.  
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Vascular tissues   move food and water around the plant to help it grow  
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Chloroplast   absorbs energy from sunlight to produce carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water during photosynthesis  
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Chlorophyll   green colored matter found in chloroplasts of plants  
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Photosynthesis   the process by which plants use light energy to make sugars  
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Purpose   State the problem, this can be in the form of a question.  
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Research   Find out about the topic using books and/or Internet.  
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Hypothesis   Predict the answer to the problem.  
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Experiment   Develop a procedure to test your hypothesis.  
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Analysis   Record the results of your experiment.  
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Conclusion   Compare your hypothesis to your experiments results.  
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Xylem   Tubes in vascular plants that carry water and other materials.  
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Phloem   Tubes in vascular plants that carry sugar away from the leaves.  
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Tropism   A way that plants change their growth because of something outside of them.  
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Growth Hormone   A chemical that causes more cells to grow and helps cells grow larger.  
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Ally   A friend who helps in a fight  
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Conquest   Capture or taking of something by force  
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Expedition   Journey made for a special purpose  
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Latitude   Distance north and south of the equator, measured in degrees  
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Longitude   Distance east of west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees  
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Society   Group of people forming a community.  
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Missionary   Person who teaches his or her religion to others who have different beliefs.  
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Colony   Settlement far from the country that rules it.  
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Colonist   Person who lives in a colony  
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Columbian Exchange   Movement of people, animals, plants, diseases, and ways of life between the Eastern Hemisphere and Western  
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Ecosystem   all living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions  
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Population   a group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time  
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Community   different populations in a certain area  
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Niche   a role in an ecosystem, which includes what type of food the organism takes in, how it gets its food, and which of the other species use the organism as food  
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Habitat   a place that provides all the things an organism needs to live  
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Predator   an animal that hunts and eats another animal for energy  
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Prey   an animal that is hunted by another animal for food  
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Producer   plants and some other organisms that make their own food for energy  
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Consumer   organisms that can’t make their own food, but get their energy from producers or other consumers.  
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Pollution   any substance that harms or damages the environment  
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Conservation   an attempt to protect or preserve an environment from changes that can be harmful to it  
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Organism   an individual animal, plant, or single—celled life form  
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Respire   making food into energy  
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Biotic   all living organisms in an ecosystem  
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Abiotic   the name given to non  
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Biome   large ecosystems with the same climate and organisms  
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Competition   the struggle of organisms for the same resources needed for survival  
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Food chain   a series of steps by which energy moves from one type of living thing to another  
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Ecology   the study of organisms and their interactions with one another and with the physical and chemical environment around them  
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Food web   a diagram that combines many food chains into one diagram. It is used to see how different food chains are connected in an ecosystem.  
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Symbiosis   a long  
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Environment   all of the conditions surrounding an organism. These conditions meet the needs of the organism  
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Nutrition   needing food and or minerals for respiration  
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Reproduce   the ability to make offspring. This keeps the species in existence  
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Sensitive   responding and reacting to the environment  
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Growth   becoming larger or stronger  
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Excrete   getting rid of waste  
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Movement   the ability to move  
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Regulation   limits that are put on how many animals a person can hunt or fish for  
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Glucose   a sugar that is an important energy source for living organisms  
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Carrying capacity   the number of organisms that can live in a habitat  
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