Science Tezt

Question 1

study of how living things interact in their physical environment

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ecology

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organisms environment or home

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habitat

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the basic unit of ecology

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ecosystem

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model used by ecologist to show all possible relationship at each trophic levels

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food web

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both organisms benefit

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mutualism

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organisms function or occupation

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niche

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one benefits and the other one is harmed

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parasitism

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one animal hunts kills and eats the other

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predation

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another name for the water cycle

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hydrologic cycle

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responsibly to take care of the earth

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stewardship

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wise use of natural resources

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conservation

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moves from place to place in its environment for food

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animal

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animal without a backbone

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invertebrates

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vertebrates have what symmetry

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bilateral

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animals with four appendages

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tetrapods

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means warm-blooded

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homeothermic

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animals that bear their young alive

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viviparous

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animals that lay eggs

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oviparous

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active at night

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nocturnal

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egg-laying mammals

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echidna and platypus

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system that bats use to locate their prey

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echolocation

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have more mammals in it then any other mammals combined

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rodents

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largest living animal

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blue whale

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chews the cud

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ruminants

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mammals that eat meat

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carnivores

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no longer found alive on the earth

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extinct

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means two footed

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bipedal

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fastest of any living creature

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peregrine falcon

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feathers that give the necessary wing shape for flight

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flight feathers

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the wings don't flap and the bird moves horizontally

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gliding

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the bird doesn't flap its wings and rises

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soaring

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third eyelid found in birds and reptiles

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nictitating membrane

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annually moving to a different region

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migration

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unlearned knowledge an animal possesses from birth

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instinct

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when birds keep their eggs warm

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incubation

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means cold blodded

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poikilothermic

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eggs batch inside the mothers body

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ovoviviparous

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most numerous of the reptiles

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lizards

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method of locomotion used by most snakes

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lateral undulation

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pythons are in what group of snakes

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constrictors

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what the snake uses to hear

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quadrate bone

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snake that has a sensory depression on the side of its head

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pit vipers

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reptile with a shell

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turtle

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largest living reptiles

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crocodilians

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live in water and land

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amphibians

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turtle designed for terrestrial living

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tortoise

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organ a frog uses during cutaneous respiration

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skin

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what a fish uses to obtain oxygen from water

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gills

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w-shaped bands of muscle

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myomeres

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asymmetrical fin on a shark

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caudal

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fish responsible for more injury's than any other fishes combined

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sting ray

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one of the fish that lack jaws

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lamprey

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invertebrates with ajointed appendages

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arthropods

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most numerous of all of Gods living creatures

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insects

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what insect order means toothed

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odonata

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means straight-winged

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orthoptera

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means sheathe-winged

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coleoptera

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means half-winged

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hemiptera

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means scale-wing

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lepidoptera

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means two-wings

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diptera

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means same-winged

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means membrane-wing

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hymenoptera

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organ spiders use for oxygen

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book lung

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abdominal appendages of a crayfish

Question 64

two shelled mollusks