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ACT Testprep science
| term | definition |
|---|---|
| beta particle | a high-speed electron |
| bog | wet spongy ground; especially : a poorly drained usually acid area rich in accumulated plant material, frequently surrounding a body of open water |
| capillary | any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules. |
| chromatid | one copy of a duplicated chromosone |
| equilibrium | a state of rest or balance due to the equal action of opposing forces. |
| infrared | having a wavelength just greater than that of the red end of the visible light spectrum but less than that of microwaves |
| hexane | |
| manometer | |
| mesopause | |
| montane | of, relating to, growing in, or being the biogeographic zone of relatively moist cool upland slopes below timberline dominated by large coniferous trees |
| paleozoic | of, relating to, or denoting the era between the Precambrian eon and the Mesozoic era. |
| peat | a brown, soil-like material characteristic of boggy, acid ground, consisting of partly decomposed vegetable matter |
| pinnate | resembling a feather especially in having similar parts arranged on opposite sides of an axis like the barbs on the rachis of a feather |
| polyrhythm | the simultaneous occurrence of sharply contrasting rhythms within a composition. |
| pore water | water contained in pores in soil or rock |
| pyrotechnics | |
| recasting | give (a metal object) a different form by melting it down and reshaping it |
| retention time | the time it takes a solute to travel through the column |
| rift | |
| seemingly | so as to give the impression of having a certain quali |
| semipermeable | |
| rallies | |
| speculate | form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence. |
| stagnant | having no current or flow and often having an unpleasant smell as a consequence. |
| stratopause | the interface between the stratosphere and the ionosphere |
| sucrose | a compound that is the chief component of cane or beet sugar. |
| tropopause | the interface between the troposphere and the stratosphere. |
| uninhibited | not inhibited or restricted |
| vapor plume | |
| water table | the level below which the ground is saturated with water. |
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