Science Vocb 9/10/02

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Absorbtion

Back 1

The passage of soluble foods through a cell membrane.

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Digestion

Back 2

the life process in which food is broken-down into soluble (liquid form). Special chemicals called enzymes help to make the food soluble.

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Nutrition

Back 3

the life process of food-getting or food-making.

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Growth

Back 4

the process in which a living thing increases in size by using raw materials (food and water) to make more protoplasm.

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Excretion

Back 5

the process in which an organism gets ride of wastes. Living things have wastes in three forms: solid, liquid, gas.

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Respiration

Back 6

1. Oxygen enters the cell
2. Oxygen and soluble food combine in a burning process
(oxidation)
3. heat energy and wastes are given off (CO2)
-breathing is not the same as respiration.

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Reproduction

Back 7

the process in which a living thing produces more of its own kind. (sexual/asexual)

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Circulation

Back 8

the movement of soluble food, oxygen, and wastes around within an organism.

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Sensitivity

Back 9

the process in which a living thing reacts or responds to stimilus.

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Locomotion

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the movement from place ti place under ones own power.