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Chapter 2 Science Vocabulary
These are all of the vocabulary words that are on your study sheet.
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chpater 2animal behaviorsscience
school
a group of one kind of fish that moves together
pride
a group of lions
troop
a kind of group in which animals such as baboons live
colony
a group of animals in which each member has a different job- some examples are ants, honeybees,
and termites
symbiosis
a special way in which two animals live together
parasite
an animal that is helped by living with another animal that it harms
host
an animal that is harmed by a parasite
life cycle
the changes and stages an animal goes through from birth to death
behavior
the way a living thing acts
instinct
a behavior that an animal has at birth and does not need to learn – for example a baby sea turtle
knows to crawl toward the ocean
reflex
a simple, automatic behavior
stimulus
the cause of a behavior
response
a behavior caused by a stimulus