keywords to help with SATS exam
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| Acid | A substance with a pH lower than 7
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| Air Resistance | A force that acts against an object moving through air
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| Alkali | A substance with a pH higher than 7
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| Ammeter | Measures electric current
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| Antibiotic | A chemical that works in the blood destroying bacteria e.g. penicillin
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| Antiseptic | A chemical that kills germs e.g. TCP
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| Bacteria | Small microbes
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| Boiling | Changing a liquid into a gas by heating it
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| Carbon Dioxide | A colourless gas which turns limewater cloudy
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| Carnivore | An animal that only eats meat
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| Cell | All living things are made of these
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| Cell Membrane | A layer around the cell which controls what goes in and out
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| Cell Wall | The outside layer of a plant cell that gives it its shape
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| Chloroplast | Part of a plant cell containing chlorophyll. It traps sunlight so that the plant can make food
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| Combustion | Burning – where a fuel reacts with oxygen to give out heat and light energy
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| Compound | Two or more kinds of atoms joined together
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| Condensation | The process that changes a gas into a liquid
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| Consumer | Something that eats other plants and animals
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| Current | The flow of electric charge in a circuit
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| Density | How heavy something is compared to its size
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| Diffusion | When particles spread out and mix without being stirred
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| Element | Something which contains only one type of atom
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| Evaporation | When a liquid changes into a gas
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| Filtration | A way to separate small particles from a liquid
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| Freezing | When a liquid changes into a solid
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| Friction | A force when two surfaces rub together
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| Fuse | A safety device fitted into plugs
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| Galaxy | A group of stars and their solar systems
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| Habitat | A place where plants and animals live
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| Herbivore | An animal that only eats plants
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| Hydrogen | A gas which makes a squeaky pop when a lit splint is put in it
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| Insoluble | A substance that does not dissolve
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| Invertebrate | An animal that doesn’t have a backbone
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| Joule | The unit for measuring energy
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| Litmus | An indicator that turns red in acid and blue in alkali
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| Melting | When a solid changes into a liquid
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| Microbe | A micro-organism
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| Molecule | Two or more atoms joined together
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| Neutral | A pH of 7 – it is neither an acid nor an alkali
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| Nucleus | The part of a cell that controls what a cell does
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| Omnivore | An animal that eats both plants and meat
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| Opaque | When light does not travel through an object – you cannot see
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| Oxygen | A gas found in air that is needed for respiration and combustion
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| Photosynthesis | The process that uses sunlight, water and CO2 produce glucose and O2 in plants
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| Predator | An animal that hunts other animals for food
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| Prey | An animal that is hunted by another animal
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| Producer | A green plant that makes its own food
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| Properties | The way elements look and behave
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| Respiration | The process of converting glucose to energy (and releases CO2 and H2O)
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| Solute | A substance that dissolves in a liquid
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| Solution | The mixture that forms when a substance dissolves in a liquid
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| Translucent | When some light travels through an object - you cannot see clearly through it
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| Transparent | When light travels through an object – you can see through it
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| Upthrust | A force that pushes an object upwards
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| Vacuole | The area in a plant cell that contains cell sap
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| Vertebrate | An animal that has a backbone
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| Virus | Smallest type of microbe
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