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JKL Voc Flashcards
Science Content Standards Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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jumping genes | Genes that move from one position on the chromosome to another. |
kinetic energy | Energy associated with motion. |
landform | A natural feature of a land surface. |
life | An organism that has the capacity for metabolism, growth, reaction to stimuli and reproduction. |
life cycle | The series of stages in form and functional activity through which an organism passes from fertilized ovum to the fertilized ovum of the next generation. |
liquid | A fluid (such as water) that has no independent shape but has a definite volume, does not expand indefinitely and that is only slightly compressible. |
lithosphere | The solid part of a celestial body (such as Earth), specifically, the outer part of the solid Earth composed of rock essentially like that exposed at the surface and usually considered to be about 80 kilometers (50 miles) in thickness. |