Midterm Vocab Review

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Stable internal conditions (ex: body temp.)

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Homeostasis

Front

All the reactions in your body that build/break down materials. Photosynthesis and Cell Respiration are examples of these reactions.

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Metabolism

Front

The reaction in living organisms that break down food for usable energy

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Cell respiration

Front

The reaction that allows autotrophs to use solar energy to produce their own food

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Photosynthesis

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Covalent bonds ____ electrons between atoms

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Front

A polar bond is...

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a covalent bond that shares electrons unevenly

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______________ are an attraction between the slight charges of neighboring water molecules

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hydrogen bond

Front

The combination of cohesion and adhesion used to move water through a tunnel, such as veins.

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capillary action

Front

The amount of energy required to break hydrogen bonds between water molecules in order to raise the temperature of water

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heat capacity

Front

Removing a water in order to make a covalent bond

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dehydration synthesis