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1
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The parts of the body containing the digestive organs

A

Abdomen

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2
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Take in or soak up energy or other substances

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Absorb

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3
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  • A rainfall by sufficiently atmospheric pollution that cause most harm to forests and rivers
  • rain or any other form of precipitation that is acidic
  • acid precipitation falling as rain
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Acid rain

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4
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Something suitable for a new use or purpose

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Adapt

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The force exerted by air. Whether compressed or unconfined. On any surface in contact with it

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Air pressure

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A cold blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water

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Amphibian

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The space (usually measured in degrees) between two intersecting lines or surfaces at or close to the point were they meet

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Angle

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8
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  • A part of an insect that is used to signal danger

* A rod, wire or other device used to transmit or receive radio or television signals

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Antenna

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9
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A scientist who study’s astronomy

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Astronomer

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10
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The envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet

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Atmosphere

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11
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  • A source of nuclear energy
  • The smallest unit of matter
  • Something that is small and makes something else
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Atom

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12
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A state of equilibrium or equipoise equal distribution of weight

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Balance

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13
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An instrument measuring atmospheric pressure

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Barometer

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14
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  • A scientist who study’s living organisms
  • scientist who studies life specifically organisms and their relationship to their environment
  • a specialist in biology
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Biologist

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15
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A warm blooded egg laying vertebrate distinguished by the possession of feathers wings and a beak and (typically) being able to fly

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Bird

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16
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The temperature in which liquid boils

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Boiling point

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17
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The branch of biology that deals with plant life

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Botanist

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18
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  • units of energy

* a unit equal to the kilocalorie used to express the heat output of an organism and the fuel or energy value of food

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Calorie

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19
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  • the use of any combination colors

* clothing made of fabric with a mottled design usually in shades of green and brown as that used in military camouflage

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Camouflage

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20
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An an animal that eats flesh/meat

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Carnivore

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21
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Example: blood cell

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Cell

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22
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A characteristic of a unit of matter that expresses the extent to which it has more or fewer electrons that protons

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Charge

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23
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A scientist that researches and experiments with properties or other chemicals

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Chemist

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24
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To crunch/grind with your teeth

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Chew

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25
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  • any of several threadlike bodies consisting of chromatin that carry the genes in liner order: the human species has 23 pairs designated 1-22 in order of decreasing size and X and Y for the female and male sex chromosomes respectively
  • a threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells carrying genetic information in the form of genes
A

Chromosome

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26
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A complete and closed path around which a circulating electric current can flow

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Circuit

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27
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  • A sharp division

* a split

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Cleavage

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28
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The average weather of an area

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Climate

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29
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The rotation of the hands of a clock as viewed from the front or above

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Clockwise

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30
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  • A visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere typically high above the ground
  • any similar mass especially of smoke or dust
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Cloud

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31
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The boundary of an advancing mass of cold air in particular in trailing edge of the warm sector of a low pressure system

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Cold front

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32
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A central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun

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Comet

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33
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An instrument for determining directions as by means of a freely rotating magnetized needle that indicates magnetic north

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Compass

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34
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A mixture that is composed of two or more desperate elements

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Compound

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35
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The act of compressing and the state of being compressed

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Compression

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36
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Process or the state of changing a substance from gas to liquid or solid

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Condensation

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37
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A material through which heat can pass through easily

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Conductor

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38
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A group of stars forming a shape/recognizable pattern

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Constellation

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39
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Any living being that consumes food made by a producer

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Consumer

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40
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To make smaller

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Contract

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41
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The cup shaped depression of cavity on the surface of the earth or other heavenly body marking the orifice of a volcano

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Crater

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42
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A dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity associated with thunderstorms

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Cumulonimbus

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43
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A heap or a pile

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Cumulus

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44
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A stream of electric charge

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Current

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45
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  • to become decomposed

* rot

A

Decay

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46
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An organism that feeds on decomposing organic materials

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Decomposer

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47
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Any series of steps or stages as in a process or course of action a point in any scale

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Degree

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48
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A region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all

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Desert

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49
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The process of breaking down food into substance that can be used by the body

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Digestion

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50
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A system that the food goes down and turns into acid

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Digestive system

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51
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To become melted or liquified

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Dissolve

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52
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  • a nucleic acid that carries the genetic information cells and some viruses consisting of two long chains of nucleotides hydrogen bonds
  • features that characterize a person or thing
  • to set off non-genetic traits qualities or features that characterize a person or thing
A

DNA

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53
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A membrane of the middle ear that vibrates in response to sound waves

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Eardrum

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54
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  • when the earth is shaking
  • a series of vibrations induced in the earths crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating
A

Earthquake

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55
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The total or partial hiding of a planter star or moon by another

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Eclipse

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56
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A form of energy resulting from the existence of charged particles

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Electricity

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57
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  • the height to which something is elevated or to which it rises
  • the action or fact of elevating or being elevated
A

Elevation

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58
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The internal skeleton

A

Endoskeleton

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59
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*The capacity or power to do work such as the capacity to move an object (of a given mass) by the application of force

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Energy

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60
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A person who operates or is in charge of an engine

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Engineer

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61
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The aggregate of surrounding things

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Environment

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62
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The great circle of the earth that is equidistant from the North Pole and South Pole

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Equator

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63
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To eat into or away

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Erode

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64
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An approximate calculation or judgement of the valve number quantity or extent of something

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Estimate

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65
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To change from a liquid to a gas

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Evaporation

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66
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A hard outer structure such as the shell on an insect or crustacean that provides protection or support for an organism

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Exoskeleton

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67
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To get larger

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Expand

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68
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An animal that dies out completely

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Extinct

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69
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Threadlike piece

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Fiber

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70
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Action or process of moving through the air

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Flight

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71
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Move or hover slowly and lightly in a liquid or the air

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Float

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72
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The blossom of a plant

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Flower

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73
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A system interlocking and independent food chains the natural interconnection of food chains

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Food web

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74
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Push/pull

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Force

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75
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An area that is dense with trees and other plants

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Forest

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76
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The remains of people plant and/or animals

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Fossil

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77
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To become hardened into ice or into a solid body

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Freeze

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78
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The action of one surface or object rubbing against another

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Friction

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79
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A mushroom

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Fungus

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80
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  • A group of solar systems

* a system of millions or billions of stars together with gas and dust held together by gravitational attraction

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Galaxy

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81
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State of matter consisting of particles that have neither a defined volume nor defined shape

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Gas

82
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Someone who studies rocks

A

Geologist

83
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To begin to grow or develop

A

Germinate

84
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The paired respiratory organ of fishes and some amphibians by which oxygen is extracted from water

A

Gills

85
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A term used to describe a gradual increase in the average temperature of the earths climate

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Global warming

86
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A large open Area of country covered with grass especially when used for grazing

A

Grassland

87
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The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth or toward any other physical body having mass

A

Gravity

88
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  • a phenomenon in which the planets atmospheric gases allow incoming sunlight to pass through but retain much of the heat radiated back from the planets surface
  • the process by which radiation from the atmosphere
  • when gases get stuck in the solar system
A

Greenhouse effect

89
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The natural home or environment of an animal plant or other organism

A

Habitat

90
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  • the quality of being hot

* hot temperatures

A

Heat

91
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An animal that feeds on plants

A

Herbivore

92
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A quantity representing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere or a gas

A

Humidity

93
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A rich soil

A

Humus

94
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A storm with a violent wind in particular

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Hurricane

95
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Frozen water

A

Ice

96
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Formed from the solidification of motion rock mineral

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Igneous rock

97
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A small arthropod animal that has six legs and generally one or two pairs of wings

A

Insect

98
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The connection made between the bones and the body

A

Joints

99
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An organ that holds water

A

Kidney

100
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A flat surface attached to a plant

A

Leaf

101
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Rigid bar resting on a pivot used to help move a heavy or firmly fixed load with one end when pressure is applied to the other

A

Lever

102
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Raise to a high lever of position

A

Lift

103
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Something that makes vision possible

A

Light

104
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A sudden electrical discharge during an electrical storm

A

Lightning

105
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A phase of matter in which atoms or molecules that can move freely while remaining in contact with another

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Liquid

106
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An object that attracts metal and attracts opposite force and repels the same

A

Magnet

107
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Warm blooded vertebrae animal of milk by females for the nourishment of the young and typically the birth of love young

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Mammal

108
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A diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea

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Map

109
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Solid/liquid/gas

A

Matter

110
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The assignment of a number to a characteristic of an object or event

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Measure

111
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Become liquified by heat

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Melt

112
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A lot of rocks formed together by heat and pressure

A

Metamorphic rock

113
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A profound change in the form one stage to the next in the cycle of an organism

A

Metamorphosis

114
Q

The biggest meteor shower of the season

A

Meteor

115
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The fundamental unit of length in the metric system equal to 100 centimeters

A

Meter

116
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To move from one region or habitat to another especially regularly according to the seasons

A

Migrate

117
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A substance obtained by mining a ore

A

Mineral

118
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Contains two or more substances that are not chemically combined

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Mixture

119
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Small part of something

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Molecule

120
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  • The natural satellite of earth by reflecting light from the sun
  • giant rock in space
  • nighttime
A

Moon

121
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The action or process of moving or being moved

A

Motion

122
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A band or bundle of tissue in a human or animal body that has the ability to contract producing movement in or maintaining the position of parts of the body

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Muscle

123
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The doctrine that mutual dependence is necessary to social well being

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Mutualism

124
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A very large expansion of sea in particular each of the main areas into which the sea is divided geographically

A

Ocean

125
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An animal or person that eats food both if plans and meat

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Omnivore

126
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The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star planet or moon

A

Orbit

127
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A collection of tissues joined in a structural unit

A

Organ

128
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An individual animal plant or single celled life

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Organism

129
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A type of zoologist who focuses on birds

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Ornithologist

130
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A colorless odorless reactive gas forms about 20 percent of the earths atmosphere and is the most abundant element in the earths crust

A

Oxygen

131
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Has two or more paths for a current flow through

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Parallel circuit

132
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An organism that lives in or on another organism

A

Parasite

133
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A weight hung from a fixed point

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Pendulum

134
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The process in which plants use sunlight to make their own food

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Photosynthesis

135
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A scientist that specializes in physics

A

Physicist

136
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A celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star

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Planet

137
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An area of relatively level high ground

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Plateau

138
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A substance that is capable of causing illness or death of a living organism when introduced or absorbed

A

Poison

139
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Either of the two similar points on another planet

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Pole

140
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The presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects

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Pollution

141
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A rock or other material that have spaces or holes in them

A

Porous

142
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A tract of grassland meadow

A

Prairie

143
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Rain snow sleet or hail that falls to the ground

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Precipitation

144
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An animal that naturally preys on others

A

Predator

145
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Nutrients found in food is a necessary part of the diet and is essential for normal cell structure and function

A

Protein

146
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To exert force typically by taking hold of them in order to move or try to move them toward oneself or the origin of the force

A

Pull

147
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The amour of material

A

Quantity

148
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A hard silica mineral found worldwide in many different types of rocks including sandstone and granite

A

Quartz

149
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  • The act or process of radiating

* emission of energy in the form of waves or particles

A

Radiation

150
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To treat or process so as to make suitable for reuse

A

Recycle

151
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To push back or away by a force as one body acting upon another

A

Repel

152
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  • a cold blooded creature
  • cold blooded vertebrae class that includes snakes lizards crocodiles turtles and tortoises they have dry scaly skin and typically lay soft shelled eggs on land
A

Reptiles

153
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The refusal to accept to prevent something by action or argument

A

Resistance

154
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Move in a circle on a central axis

A

Revolve

155
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A natural stream of water fairly large size flowing in a definite course of channels

A

River

156
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A rocket is a missile spacecraft aircraft or other vehicle that obtains thrust from a rocket engine

A

Rocket

157
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The organ of a plant that typically lies below

A

Roots

158
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The action of rotating around an axis or center

A

Rotation

159
Q

The water in your mouth

A

Saliva

160
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The instrument for weighing

A

Scale

161
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A type of fastener or bolt typically made of metal

A

Screw

162
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One of the four periods of the year

A

Season

163
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  • One of the 3 main types of rocks
  • type of rock that has formed through the deposition and solidification of sediment
  • often deposited in layers
A

Sedimentary rock

164
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The fertilized matured ovule of a plant containing an embryo or baby plant

A

Seed

165
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A circuit designed so that a current can only flow into one path

A

Series circuit

166
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A dark area shape produced by your body coming between rays of light and a surface

A

Shadow

167
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  • the soft outer covering of your body

* the largest organ

A

Skin

168
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When a problem is solved

A

Solution

169
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A wave that is formed when a sound is made and that moves through the air and carries the sound to your ear

A

Sound wave

170
Q

Three dimensional area around you including the universe

A

Space

171
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A small membranous protrusion from a neuron dendrite

A

Spine

172
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A fixed luminous point in the night sky that is large remote incandescent body like the sun

A

Star

173
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Electric charge that has accumulated on an object

A

Static

174
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The long green attachment to a plant that transfers nutrients through the plant

A

Stem

175
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An organ in the digestive system on the left side of the body behind the lower rib cage that receives chewed food from the esophagus

A

Stomach

176
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A sweet crystalline substance

A

Sugar

177
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The star around which the earth orbits

A

Sun

178
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The daily disappearance of the sun below the horizon as a result of earths rotation

A

Sunset

179
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What contains the taste of food

A

Taste buds

180
Q
  • plural of tooth

* a bone you use to chew

A

Teeth

181
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An optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer

A

Telescope

182
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The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment

A

Temperature

183
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An instrument for measuring and indicating temperature

A

Thermometer

184
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A loud rumbling or clashing noise heard after a lightning flash due to the expansion of rapidly heated air

A

Thunder

185
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A mobile destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel shaped cloud

A

Tornado

186
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  • A physical vector quantity both magnitude and direction are needed to define its speed
  • a high wind
  • rapidly of motion or operation swiftness
  • speed
A

Velocity

187
Q

To move rhythmically and steadily to and fro

A

Vibrate

188
Q

The amount of space that a substance can hold

A

Volume

189
Q

To decrease in strength

A

Waning

190
Q

When a warm air mass pushes a cold air mass

A

Warm front

191
Q

Have a progressively larger part of its visible surface illuminated increasing its apparent size

A

Waxing

192
Q

The state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat dryness sunshine wind rain

A

Weather

193
Q

A simple lifting machine consisting of a rope that unwinds from a wheel onto a cylindrical drum of shaft to provide a mechanical advantage

A

Wheel & axle

194
Q

The level below which the ground is saturated with water

A

Water table

195
Q

The pull of gravity on an object

A

Mass

196
Q

A community of animals plants or humans among whose members interbreeding occurs

A

Population

197
Q

Animal or human that can be eaten by an animal

A

Prey

198
Q

Organisms that produce food through photosynthesis

A

Producer

199
Q

The upper layer of the earth where plants grow

A

Soil

200
Q

One of the states of matter it has a fixed shape and a fixed volume

A

Solid

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