P - S: Difficult Biology / Living Environment Terms Commonly Found on the Regents Exam
Detailed Glossary of "P Q" "R" "S" Biology Terms | |
Possess | have as an ability, quality, or characteristic. |
Precaution | a measure taken in advance to prevent something dangerous, unpleasant, or inconvenient from happening. |
Predominant | Most common or conspicuous; main or prevalent |
Presence | the state or fact of existing, occurring, or being present in a place or thing. |
Prior | existing or coming before in time, order, or importance. |
Procedure | an established or official way of doing something. |
Promote | further the progress of (something, esp. a cause, venture, or aim); support or actively encourage. |
Propose | put forward (an idea or plan) for consideration or discussion by others. |
Quantity | the amount or number of a material or immaterial thing not usually estimated by spatial measurement. |
Rate | A quantity measured with respect to another measured quantity |
Rebound | To recover, as from depression or disappointment. |
Reduced | make smaller or less in amount, degree, or size. |
Regulate | control or maintain the rate or speed of so that it operates properly. |
Remain | continue to exist, esp. after other similar or related people or things have ceased to exist. |
Replenish | fill (something) up again. |
Revise | reconsider and alter (something) in the light of further evidence. |
Short-term | occurring over or involving a relatively short period of time |
Significant | having a particular meaning; indicative of something. |
Situation | a set of circumstances in which one finds oneself; a state of affairs. |
Specialization | structural adaptation of a body part to a particular function or of an organism for life in a particular environment |
Stable | firmly fixed or not likely to move or change |
Stimulate | raise levels of physiological or nervous activity in (the body or any biological system). |
Structure | the way that something is built, arranged, or organized |
Summarize | give a brief statement of the main points of (something). |
Synthesize | combine (a number of things) into a coherent whole. |