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38 Cards in this Set
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A special trait that helps an organism survive
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Adaptation
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A consumer that eats only animals
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Carnivore
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The smallest unit of living matter
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Cell
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A green substance in plant cells that helps plants make food by trapping the Sun's energy
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Chlorophyll
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To place thing that share properties together in groups
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Classify
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To share information
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Communicate
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The living part of an ecosystem
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Community
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Point out similarities
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Compare
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Communicate, make a model,or predict what is going to happen in a scientific experiment
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Hypothesis
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To put or fix together
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Construct
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Any organism that eats the food producers make.
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Consumer
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Point out differences.
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Contrast
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To make or design.
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Create
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An organism that breaks down wastes and the remains of other organism.
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Decomposer
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Facts to support or help draw conclusion.
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Data
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A plan, form in the mind.
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Design
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All the surroundings things, conditions, and influences affecting the growth of living things.
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Environment
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To perform a test to support or disprove a hypothesis.
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Experiment
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Said of an organism no longer alive on earth.
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Extinct
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Anything that shows what is true and what is not:facts,proof.
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Evidence
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Set of steps in which organisms get the food they need to survive.
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Food Chain
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The home of an organism.
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Habitat
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A consumer that eats only plants
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Herbivore
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a pattern of behavior that requires no thinking because it is programmed into an animal's brain.
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Instinct
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Examine closely
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Investigate
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To form an idea from facts or observations
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Infer
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The stages of growth and change of an organism's life
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Life Cycle
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To use one or more of the senses to identify or learn about an odject or event
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Observe
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a consumer that eats both plants and animals
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Omnivore
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a living thing that carries out five basic life functions on its own
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Organism
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a part of the air that is needed by most plants and animals to live
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Oxygen
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a process in plants that uses energy from sunlight to make food from water and carbon dioxide
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Photosynthesis
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to state possible results of an event or experiment
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Perdict
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steps or directions to follow in a scientific experiment
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Procedure
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an organism,such as a plant,that makes food
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Producer
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the making of offspring
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Reproduction
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answers gathered from a scientific experiment
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Results
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used to indentify and separate things in an experiment that can be changed or controlled
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Variable
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