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Vocab for the semester exam

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Acid   a substance that tastes sour, reacts with metals and carbonates and turns blue litmus paper red  
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Base   A substance that tastes bitter, feels slippery and turns red litmus paper blue.  
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pH Scale   A range of numbers used to express the concentration of hydrogen ions in a solution  
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Neutralization   A reaction of an acid with a base, yielding a solution that is not as acidic or basic as teh starting solutions were. Yields water and a salt  
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reaction   the transformation of one set of chemical substances into another  
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salt   an ionic compound made from the neutralization of an acid with a base.  
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Wave   A disturbance that transfers energy from place to place  
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vibration   a repeated back and forth or up and down motion  
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longitudinal wave   a wave that move the medium parallel to the direction in which the wave is traveling  
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energy   the ability to do work  
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medium   material through which a wave travels  
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mechanical wave   a wave that requires a medium through which to travel  
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crest   the highest part of a transverse wave  
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transverse wave   a wave that moves the medium in a direction perpendicular to the direction in which the wave travels  
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surface wave   a wave that occurs at the surface between two mediums  
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trough   the lowest part of a transverse wave  
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compression   the part of the longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are close together  
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rarefaction (longitudinal waves)   the part of the longitudinal wave where the particles of the medium are farthest apart  
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amplitude   the maximum distance the particles of a medium move away from their rest positions as a wave  
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wavelength   the distance between two corresponding parts of a wave  
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frequency   the number of complete waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time  
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Hertz (Hz)   unit of measurement for frequency  
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Doppler Effect   the apparent change in frequency of a sound as the source moves in relation to the listener  
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reflection   the bouncing back of a wave when it hits a surface that it cannot pass thorugh  
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refraction   the bending of a wave as it passes into a different medium  
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cell   the basic unit of structure and function in living things  
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cell theory   a widely accepted explanation of the relationship between cells and living things  
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animal cell   a cell that does not have a cell wall and is found in animals  
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plant cell   a cell that has a cell wall and chloroplast  
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organelle   a tiny cell structure that carries out a specific function within a cell  
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active transport   the movement of materials through a cell membrane using energy  
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passive transort   the movement of materials through a cell membrane without using energy  
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diffusion   the process by which molecules move from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration  
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osmosis   the diffusion of water molecules through a selectively permeable membrane  
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chloroplasts   a structure in the cells of plants and some other organisms that captures energy from sunlight and uses it to produce food.  
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nucleus   a cell structure that contains nucleic acids, the chemical instructions that direct all of the cell's activities  
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mitochondria   rod-shaped cells structures that produce most of the energy needed to carry out the cell's function  
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photosynthesis   the process by which plants and some other organisms capture the energy in sunlight and use it to make food  
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cell respiration   the process by which cells break down simple food molecules to release the energy they contain  
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punnett square   a chart that shows all the possible combinations of alleles that can result from a genetic cross  
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dominant   an allele whose trait always shows up in the organism when the allele is present  
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recessive   an allele that is masked when a dominant allele is present. Needs two recessive alleles to see the trait.  
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allele   the different forms of a gene  
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trait   a characteristics that an organism can pass on to its offsprings thorough its genes  
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homozygous   having two identical alleles for a trait  
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heterozygous   having two different alleles for a trait  
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