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What is a Class?

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Taxonomic group that contains one or more related orders.

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What are Dunes?

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Mounds of wind-deposited sand.

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What is Evaporation?

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The change of a substance from a liquid to a gas.

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What is Frequency?

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The rate at which something occurs over a particular period or in a given sample.

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What is a Scientific Law?

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A rule that describes a pattern in nature.

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What is a Phylum?

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A group of closely related classes.

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What is a Sketch?

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A rough preliminary version of a work or part of a work.

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What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?

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The law that states that energy cannot be created or destroyed but can be transformed from one form to another.

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What is the Digestive System?

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It is a body system that is designed to break down food and absorb its nutrients.

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What is Humidity?

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The amount of water vapor in the air.

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What is Kinetic Energy?

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The energy of motion.

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What is the Mitochondria?

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The Powerhouse of the cell; Produces ATP (Energy)

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What is a Peninsula?

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A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.

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What is Conduction?

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Thermal energy that is transferred through direct contact.

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What is a Animal Cell?

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Eukaryotic cells with membrane bound organelles.

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What is the Atmosphere?

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A mixture of gases that surrounds the Earth.

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What is a Atom?

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The smallest unit of matter.

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What is a Bar Graph?

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A graph that uses horizontal or vertical bars to display data

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What is the Biosphere?

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A part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere.

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What is Carbon Dioxide?

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A gas that is expelled from the body by the respiratory system.

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What is a Cell?

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The basic unit of life.

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What is a Cell Membrane?

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A thin, flexible barrier around a cell; regulates what enters and leaves the cell.

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What is a Cell Wall?

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A rigid structure that surrounds the plant cell membrane and provides support to the cell. Only found in Plant cells.

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What is a Chart?

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A graphical representation of data.

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What is Chemical Weathering?

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The process by which rocks break down as a result of chemical reactions.

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What is Chloroplast?

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An organelle found in plant and algae cells where photosynthesis occurs.

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What is Circulation?

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Movement of blood through the body.

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What is the Circulatory System?

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A body system that circulates blood through the body, supplies oxygen and nutrients, and removes waste.

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What is Climate?

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Overall weather in an area over a long period of time.

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What is the meaning of Complex?

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Having many parts.

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What is Condensation?

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The change of state from a gas to a liquid.

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What is the Cryosphere?

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The frozen parts of the Earth

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What is a Data Table?

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A grid that displays the data plotted in a chart.

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What is a Dependent variable?

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A variable whose value depends on that of another. Known as the outcome or measure variable.

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What is Deposition?

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The Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations.

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What is Electrical Energy?

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The energy of electric charges.

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What is the Equator?

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The imaginary center line of latitude that divides the northern and southern hemispheres.

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What is Erosion?

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Processes by which rock, sand, and soil are broken down and carried away.

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What is the Excretory System?

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The system that removes waste from your body and controls water balance.

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What is the definition of External?

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Outside

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What is Family?

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Group of generations that share many characteristics.

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What is friction?

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A force that opposes motion between two surfaces that are in contact.

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What is Genus?

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A classification grouping that consists of a number of similarly, closely related species.

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What is the Geosphere?

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The solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle.

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What is gravity?

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A force of attraction between objects that is due to their masses.

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What is a Gulf Stream?

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A warm ocean current that flows from the Gulf of Mexico northward through the Atlantic Ocean

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What is Homeostasis?

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A process by which organisms maintain a relatively stable internal environment.

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What is the Hydrosphere?

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All the water at and near the surface of the earth, 97& of which is in oceans.

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What is the Immune System?

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The cells and tissues that recognize and attack foreign substances in the body.

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What is Independent Variable?

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The variable in an experiment that is changed.

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What is the meaning or Internal?

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Inside

52
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What is Interpret?

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Explain the meaning of

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What is Jet Stream

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a high-speed high-altitude air stream blowing from west to east near the top of the troposphere

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What is a Kingdom?

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First and largest category used to classify organisms

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What is Living?

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The condition of being alive

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What is the meaning of Magnetic?

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Having the power to attract

57
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What is Magnification?

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An increase in the apparent size of an object

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What is Mainland?

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an area that is a part of a continent

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What is mass?

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the amount of matter in an object

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What is a Molecule?

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A group of atoms bonded together

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What is Multicellular?

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Consisting of many cells

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What is the Musculoskeletal System?

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The system of bones and skeletal muscles that support and protect the body and permit movement.

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What is Nervous System?

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the network of nerve cells and fibers that transmits nerve impulses between parts of the body.

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What is Nonliving?

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Not alive

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What is Nucleus?

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A part of the cell containing DNA and RNA and responsible for growth and reproduction

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What is Nutrients?

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Compounds in food that the body requires for proper growth, maintenance, and functioning

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What is Order?

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Group of similar families

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What is a Organ?

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A collection of tissues that carry out a specialized function of the body

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What is Organ System?

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A group of organs that work together in performing vital body functions.

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What is an Organelle?

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A tiny cell structure that carries out a specific function within the cell.

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What is Organism?

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Any living thing.

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What is Oxygen?

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O2, inhaled through respiration and required for the processes of the body to occur.

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What is Physical weathering?

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Breaking down rocks through physical processes like freezing and thawing.

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What is a Plant Cell?

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Eukaryotic cell, has cell wall and chloroplast.

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What is Potential Energy?

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Energy that is stored

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What is Precipitation

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Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth’s surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail

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What is Proximity?

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Closeness

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What is Radiation?

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Energy that is radiated or transmitted in the form of rays or waves or particles.

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What is the Respiratory System?

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Brings oxygen into the body and removes CO2, includes nose, trachea, and lungs.

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What is Sediment?

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rock fragments that have been transported to a different location.

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What is Species?

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A group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.

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What is Speed?

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Distance travelled per unit time.

83
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What is Temperature?

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A measure of how hot or cold something is.

84
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What is Scientific Theory?

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A hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data.

85
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What is a Tissue

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A group of similar cells that perform the same function

86
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What is the definition of Transformed?

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Chaned

87
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What is Transpiration

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Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant.

88
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What is a Turbine?

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Provides the source of mechanical energy for the generator.

89
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What is a Vacuole?

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A sac inside a cell that acts as a storage area.

90
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What is the Water cycle?

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The continuous process by which water moves from Earth’s surface to the atmosphere and back.

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What is Water Vapor?

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Water in the form of a gas.

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What is Weather?

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The condition of Earth’s atmosphere at a particular time and place.

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What is Convection?

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A current caused by the rising of heated fluid and sinking of cooled fluid

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What is a Front?

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A boundary between two air masses.

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What is aa Cold Front?

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A front where cold air moves in under a warm air mass.

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What is a Warm Front?

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A front where warm air moves over cold air and brings drizzly rain and then are followed by worn and clear weather.

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What is Vegetation?

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Plant life

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What is Sublimation?

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A change directly from the solid to the gaseous state without becoming liquid.

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What is Inference?

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An interpretation based on prior knowledge and experience.

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What is a Observation?

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Information obtained through the senses.

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What is a Net Force?

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The overall force on an object when all the individual forces acting on it are added together.

102
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What is the Modern Cell Theory?

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  • All living things are composed of cells
  • Cells are the basic unit of all organisms
  • all cells come from pre-existing cells.

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