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Chapter 4 Response to living things
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4th Grade
08/20/2008

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Term
enviornment
Definition
everything that surrounds a living thing.
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external stimulus
Definition
anything in an organism's enviornment that causes it to react.
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internal stimulus
Definition
anything within an organism that causes it to react
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response
Definition
a reaction to a stimulus
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stimulus
Definition
anything that causes a living thing to react.
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behavior
Definition
the way that a living thing acts or responds to its enviornment
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inherited behavior
Definition
a behavior that an organism is born with and does not need to learn
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instinct
Definition
a complex pattern of behavior that organisms of the same type are born with
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learned behavior
Definition
a behavior that is taught or learned from experience
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