CfE Higher Vocab - Topic 10 (Env. Change) & Topic 11 (Survival)
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| Extremophile | An organism which is able to live in extreme conditions e.g. high temperature.
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| Migration | A process which avoids metabolic adversity by expending energy to relocate to a more suitable environment.
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| Conformer | An organism whose internal environment varies with it's surroundings.
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| Homeostasis | The maintenance of the body's internal environment within tolerable limits.
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| Aestivation | Dormancy in response to high temperature or drought.
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| Effectors | Cells, muscles or glands which perform responses to stimuli.
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| Consequential | An organism that becomes dormant as a result of adverse conditions shows this type of dormancy.
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| Regulators | An organism whose internal environment remains fairly constant, despite changes in its external environment.
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| Hibernation | An inactive state resembling deep sleep in which certain animals living in cold climates pass the winter.
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| Predictive | An organism that becomes dormant before the arrival of adverse conditions shows this type of dormancy.
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| Innate | Existing naturally rather than being learned through experience.
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| Dormancy | A condition of biological rest or inactivity characterised by cessation of growth or development and the suspension of many metabolic processes.
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| Thermoregulation | The maintenance of a constant internal body temperature despite varying environmental temperature.
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| Torpor | A period of reduced activity in organisms with high metabolic rates.
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| Alveoli | The many tiny air sacs of the lungs which allow for rapid gas exchange.
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| Hypothalamus | The location of the body's temperature monitoring area.
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