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42 Cards in this Set
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Transports needed materials to body cells and removes wastes
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Cardiovascular system
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supports and protects the body; works with muscles to enable movements
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Skeletal System
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enables body to move
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Muscular system
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protects the body, keeps water inside, and helps sense the extermal enviornment
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skin
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breaks down food and absorbs the broken-down material
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digestive
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creates offspring; determines male and female characteristics
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reproductive
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produces chemicals called hormones that help control homeostasis
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endocrine
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processes information from body's enviornment; directs most body functions
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nervous
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oxygen in- carbon dioxcide out
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repiratory
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removes wastes; helps regulate water in body
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excretory
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fights diseases
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immune
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parts that work together
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system
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group of cells perform same function
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tissue
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group of tissues perfom same function
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organ
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group of organs perfom same function
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organ system
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windpipe
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trachea
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structure that oxygen moves from air into the blood
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alveolus
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muscle invovled with breathing
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diaphram
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in small intesting to absorb nutrients from food, which blood then carries throughout body
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villi
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balance: stable
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equilibrium
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internal enviornment kept stable in times of change in the external enviornment
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homeostasis
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controls body temperature and gluclose
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negative feedback
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endocrine system: effects activity of tissue or organ
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hormone
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from higher concentration to lower concentration
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diffusion
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diffusion of water
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osmosis
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living/non-living in an enviornment
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ecosystem
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role in enviornment
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niche
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struggle to survive
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competition
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process hunt and kill animals
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predation
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the killer
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predator
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the hunted
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prey
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close relationships between animals where at least one benefits
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symbiosis
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both benefit
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mutualism
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one benefits
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commensalism
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one helped/ other not harmed or helped
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parasitism
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lives on or in another animal
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parasite
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the animal a parasite lives in
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host
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True/False: The cardiovascular system brings waste carbon dioxcide in the blood to the lungs
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True
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True/False: Gluclose is a hormone that regulates the body's production of insulin
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True
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True/False: A group of organs that work together to perform a specific function is a connective tissue.
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False: organ system
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The (blank) adjust the amount of water in the blood by changing the concentration of water excreted in urine
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kidneys
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Shivering is an example of (blank).
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Natural selection
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