7th Grade Midyear Science Vocabulary
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| food_web | diagram that shows feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem
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| niche | role an organism plays in an ecosystem
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| inference | The statement "Ms. Smith loves apples because she eats an apple every day for lunch" is an example of an ____________.
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| parasitism | relationship between two organisms where one is harmed and the other benefits
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| limiting_factor | an environmental factor that prevents a population from increasing.
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| competition | an interaction between two organisms fighting over resources in a habitat
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| producer | an organism that can make its own food by using energy from its environment
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| nucleus | the organelle that directs all of the activities in a cell
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| cell | the basic unit of life
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| respiration | process in which glucose is broken down, releasing energy
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| biome | a large region characterized by specific type of climate and certain types of plants and animals
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| energy_pyramid | a diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy and how that energy passes through the ecosystem's food chain
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| selective permeability | property of cell membranes that allows some materials to pass through while others cannot
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| commensalism | symbiotic relationship between two organisms where one benefits and the other is unaffected such as the remora fish and the shark
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| DRY-MIX | a way to remember which variable is plotted on each axis of a graph
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| mutualism | relationship between two organisms where both benefit such as oxpeckers(a type of bird)and rhinos where oxpeckers eat ticks and other parasites that live on the rhino's skin.
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| consumer | an organsim that eats other organisms and/or organic matter
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| homeostasis | an organism's ability to maintain stable internal conditions
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| osmosis | the movement of water molecules across a selectively permeable membrane
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| diffusion | the movement of molecules across a selectively permeable membrane from an area of higher concentration to lower concentration
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| chloroplast | cell organelle that captures energy from the sun and uses it to produce food
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| responding_variable | factor in an experiment that is measured; also known as the dependent variable
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| manipulated_variable | factor in an experiment that a scientist purposely changes; also known as the independent variable
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| abiotic | nonliving parts of the environment
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| biotic | living parts of the environment
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| bio | word part that means living or life
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| passive_transport | movement of materials through a cell membrane without the use of energy, such as diffusion
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| active_transport | movement of materials through a cell membrane where energy is used such as vesicles removing waste from a cell
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