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Science Flashcards

1
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Ermine coats are made of this

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What is a weasel?

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2
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Genus Rana

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What is a frog?

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Indicates acid vs base; compound found in lichens

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What is litmus?

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Instead of seeds, non-flowing plants use these to reproduce

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What are spores?

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5
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Plant living more than 2 years

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What is perennial?

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Conducts nutrients from the leaves to the rest of a plant

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What is floam?

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Conducts nutrients from the roots to the rest of a plant

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What is xylem?

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2 main bones in the forearm

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What are the radius and the ulna?

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This order of mammals includes lemurs, monkeys, apes & humans

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What are primates?

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A practicing physician, he became professor of botany as well as medicine at the University of Uppsala in 1741

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Who is Carl Linnaeus?

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Used to move equipment & supplies, the 55-foot-long Canadarm2 is a giant robotic arm on this facility

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What is the International Space Station?

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Discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930, it got a big demotion in 2006

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What is Pluto?

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Though in Chile, the exoplanet-searching telescope dubbed Trappist is a project of this country

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What is Belgium?

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The periosteum is a membrane of connective tissue that surrounds these body parts

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What are bones?

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The PDL, the periodontal this connective tissue, helps keep your teeth in place–& yes, you can sprain it

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What is ligament?

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The first place nutrients go after they are absorbed by the small intestine is this largest gland in the body

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What is the liver?

17
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As its name indicates, this heart valve regulates blood flow to the lungs, if it’s damaged, the heart gets stressed

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What is the pulmonary valve?

18
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This 13-letter word describes medical conditions that are caused or heightened by one’s mental or emotional state

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What is psychosomatic?

19
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Blooms of the algae of Trichodesmium erythraeum give this body of water its color & perhaps its name

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What is the Red Sea?

20
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The patella is more commonly known as this

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What is the knee cap?

21
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You’ve got some nerve! This nerve, the body’s thickest, which goes from the lumbar part of the spine down the back of the thigh

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What is the sciatic nerve?

22
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MCL is short for this

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What is the medial collateral ligament?

23
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Reflective ratios of light relative to the surrounding surface

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What is albedo?

24
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Bananas were an important lab tool for Thomas Hunt Morgan as he used these insects to prove chromosome theory

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What are fruit flies?

25
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This 6-letter grouse gets its name from its collar of neck feathers displayed by the male

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What is ruffed?

26
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This root vegetable is believed to be a cross between a cabbage & a turnip

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What is a rutabaga?

27
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genus Aedes

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What is a mosquito?

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