Vocabulary for Chap 1 Life Science - 6th Grade
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| specialization | studying or working in only one part of a subject
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| organism | any living thing
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| characteristic | quality or property that defines or classifies something
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| cell | basic unit of structure and function in living things
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| response | reaction to a change
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| autotroph | organism that can make its own food
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| heterotroph | organism that cannot make its own food
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| homeostasis | process of keeping conditions inside a body constant, no matter the conditions outside the body
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| nutrient | chemical substance that is needed to carry out life processes
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| ingestion | process of taking in food
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| digestion | process of breaking down food so that it can be used by living things
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| cellular respiration | process by which a cell releases energy from food molecules
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| byproduct | something produced in addition to the main product
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| excretion | process of getting rid of wastes
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| transport | process of moving nutrients and wastes in a living thing
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| stimulus (stimuli) | change that causes a response
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| behavior | way in which living things respond to stimuli
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| migration | seasonal movement of animals from one place to another and back
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| hibernation | inactive state of some animals during winter months
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| spontaneous generation | idea that living thing come from nonliving things
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| reproduction | process by which living things produce new organisms like themselves
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| offspring | new organism produced by living thing
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| asexual reproduction | reproduction needing only one parent
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| sexual reproduction | reproduction needing two parents
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