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| To investigate and understand the natural world. |
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| Conducting multiple experiments |
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| Scientific Theory Develops |
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| after and experiment has been well tested and you have gotten the same result in multiple tests |
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| Characteristics of living things |
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| Made of cells, adapts to their environment, able to reproduce |
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| Life being studied from different levels |
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| Molecules, cells, organisms, populations of a single kind of organism |
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| Light Microscope & Electron microscopes |
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Electron: Magnifies beams of electrons
Light: Magnifies beams of lights |
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Cell fraction
Cell Culture
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| so you do not mess up any experiments |
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| Species, Populations, Communities, Ecosystems, Biome |
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| Methods used to study ecology |
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| Observing, Experimenting, and Modeling |
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| Source of energy for life ecology |
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| Flow of energy through living system |
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| From sun - autotrophs- heterotrophs |
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| Efficiency of energy transfer |
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| 10% is transferred to organisms |
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| Cycles among the living and non living parts of ecosystems |
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| Matter is recycled within and between ecosystems |
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| Nutrients are important in living systems |
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| Every organism needs nutrients to build tissues |
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| Availability of nutrients affect the productivity of ecosystems |
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| limit the organisms growth because it cannot get the nutrients it needs |
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| Is caused by the interplay of many factors like trapping heat by the atmosphere |
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| Earth's temperature range is maintained |
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| Carbon Dioxide, water vapor, and a few other atmospheric gases trap heat |
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| Earth's 3 main climate zones |
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| Polar, temperate, tropical |
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| Biotic / Abiotic factors influence an ecosystem |
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| determines the survival and growth of an organism |
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| Interactions that occur within communities |
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| Competition, Predation, symbiosis |
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| Ecosystems recover from a disturbance |
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| as a ecosystem changes, older inhabitants die and new inhabitants come on causing change |
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| Local atmospheric zone where the climate differs from the surrounding area |
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| Depth, Flow, Temperature, and chemistry |
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| Flowing-water and standing - water |
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| Depth and distance from the shore |
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| Molecular organisms include cells, tissues, organs, and the organ system |
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| Process which organisms keep external conditions relatively constant despite changes in external enviornment |
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| Functions of the nervous system |
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| Controls and coordinates functions throughout the body and responds to external and internal stimuli |
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| Nerve Impulse is transmitted |
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| neuron is stimulates by another neuron |
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| Relays messages, processes info, analyzes info |
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| Peripheral Nervous System |
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| transmits impulses from sense organs to the central nervous system. |
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| Pain, Thermo, Mechano, Chemo, photo |
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| Sight, Smell, Tough, Taste, Hear |
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| Drugs related to nervous system |
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| Cocaine, Opiates, Marijuana, alcohol |
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| Slows down rate at which central nervous system functions |
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| supports the body, protects internal organs, provides for movement, stores mineral reserves, provides a site for blood cell info |
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| Solid, living cells, protein fibers that surround by calcium salts |
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| Immovable, Slightly movable, and freely movable |
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| Skeletal, smooth, cardiac |
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| thin filaments in the muscle slide over the thick filaments |
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| Muscles and bones interact |
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| Muscles and bones are connected by tendons and ligaments |
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| serves as a barrier against infection |
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hair - hair follicles
nail - dividing cells |
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| Artery, aorta, cappilaries |
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| Heart, blood vessels, and blood |
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| Heart contracts and produces a wave of fluid pressure in the arteries |
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| 90% water 10% dissolved gases |
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| Red,White cells & platelets |
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Red - oxygen
White - guards infections
platelets - blood clots |
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| Collects & Returns fluid that leaks from vessels |
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| Bring Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide between the blood air, and tissues |
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| Cilla , mucus, larynx, and bronchi |
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| Gas exchange and breathing |
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| Oxygen dissolves in the moistures on the inner surface of an alveolus then diffuses across the thin capillary wall |
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| Diseases such as chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and lung cancer |
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| cells convert the chemical energy stored in glucose into ATP |
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| water, carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, and minerals |
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| chemical reactions take place in water as does the body's others processes |
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| eat a lot big triangle and less of the small ones |
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Mouth, Pharynx, Esophagus, Stoumach...
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gather nutrients |
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| Liver, kidney, large intestine |
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| In machine it cleans blood |
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