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ACT Test Prep Sci
Vocabulary Science
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Formula | A statement that performs a calculation in a spreadsheet |
| Mass | A measure of the quantity of matter in an object |
| Fahrenheit | A temperature scale with the freezing point of water 32 degrees and the boiling point of 212 degrees |
| Asteroid | A small, rocky object that orbits the sun |
| Extinction | A term that typically describes a species that no longer has any known living individuals. |
| Density | Mass / Volume to find the density of an object(s) |
| Ecology | Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment |
| Flask | Small, bottle-shaped glass container used in a lab. |
| Emit | give off, send forth, or discharge |
| Inorganic | Not formed from living things or the remains of living things |
| Habitat | Physical area in which an organism lives |
| Ignite | to set on fire, to case to burn; to heat up, excite |
| Meiosis | Cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms |
| Renatured | when a protein spontaneously refolds into its original shape when the solvent is removed |
| Plutonium | A naturally radioactive, silvery, metallic transuranic element, occurring in uranium ores and produced artificially by neutron bombardment of uranium |
| Manometer | an instrument for measuring the pressure acting on a column of fluid |
| Mesopause | the boundary in the earth's atmosphere between the mesosphere and the thermosphere, at which the temperature stops decreasing with increasing height and begins to increase. |
| Genus | a class of things that have common characteristics and that can be divided into subordinate kinds. |
| Hexane | a colorless liquid hydrocarbon of the alkane series. |
| ice shelf | a floating sheet of ice permanently attached to a landmass. |
| nonreactive | not exhibiting a positive reaction in a particular laboratory test |
| osmosis | a process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one |
| recasting | a different form by melting it down and reshaping it. |
| saturation | the state or process that occurs when no more of something can be absorbed, combined with, or added. |
| joule | the SI unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one newton when its point of application moves one meter in the direction of action of the force, equivalent to one 3600th of a watt-hour. |
| colorimeter | an instrument for measuring the intensity of color. |
| prophase | the first stage of cell division, before metaphase, during which the chromosomes become visible as paired chromatids and the nuclear envelope disappears. |
| watt | the SI unit of power, equivalent to one joule per second, corresponding to the power in an electric circuit in which the potential difference is one volt and the current one ampere. |
| radar pulse | radar that operates by emitting and receiving pulses at signal |
| vapor | a substance diffused or suspended in the air, especially one normally liquid or solid. |
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