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Middle School Science notes from lulu

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Biology   branch of knowledge that deals with living organisms and vital processes  
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Physics   a science that deals with matter and energy and their interactions  
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Chemistry   a science that deals with the composition, structure, and properties of substances and with the transformations that they undergo  
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Geology   a science that deals with the history of the earth and its life especially as recorded in rocks or a study of the solid matter of a celestial body (i.e. moon)  
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Astronomy   study of objects and matter outside the earth's atmosphere and of their physical and chemical properties  
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Ecology   a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments  
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Oceanography   a science that deals with the oceans and includes the delimitation of their extent and depth, the physics and chemistry of their waters, marine biology, and the exploitation of their resources  
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Aerodynamics   study of the motion of gas on objects and the forces created  
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anatomy   study of the structure and organization of living things  
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Anthropology   study of human cultures both past and present  
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Archaeology   study of the material remains of cultures  
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Astrophysics   study of the physics of the universe  
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Bacteriology   study of bacteria in relation to disease  
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Biochemistry   study of the organic chemistry of compounds and processes occurring in organisms  
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Biophysics   application of theories and methods of the physical sciences to questions of biology  
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Botany   scientific study of plant life  
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Chemical Engineering   application of science, mathematics, and economics to the process of converting raw materials or chemicals into more useful or valuable forms  
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Chemistry   science of matter and its interactions with energy and itself  
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Climatology   study of climates and investigations of its phenomena and causes  
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Computer Science   systematic study of computing systems and computation  
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Electronics   science and technology of electronic phenomena  
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Engineering   practical application of science to commerce or industry  
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Entomology   study of insects  
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Environmental Science   science of the interactions between the physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment  
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Forestry   science of studying and managing forests and plantations, and related natural resources  
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Genetics   science of genes, heredity, and the variation of organisms  
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Geology   the science of the Earth, its structure, and history  
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Marine Biology   study of animal and plant life within saltwater ecosystems  
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Mathematics   science dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement  
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Medicine   science concerned with maintaining health and restoring it by treating disease  
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Meteorology   study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting  
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Microbiology   study of microorganisms, including viruses, prokaryotes and simple eukaryotes  
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Mineralogy   study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals  
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Molecular Biology   study of biology at a molecular level  
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Nuclear Physics   branch of physics concerned with the nucleus of the atom  
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Neurology   branch of medicine dealing with the nervous system and its disorders  
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Oceanography   study of the earth's oceans and their interlinked ecosystems and chemical and physical processes  
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Organic Chemistry   branch of chemistry dedicated to the study of the structures, synthesis, and reactions of carbon-containing compounds  
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Ornithology   study of birds  
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Paleontology   study of life-forms existing in former geological time periods  
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Petrology   geological and chemical study of rocks  
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Physics   study of the behavior and properties of matter  
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Physiology   study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of living organisms  
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Radiology   branch of medicine dealing with the applications of radiant energy, including x-rays and radioisotopes  
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Seismology   study of earthquakes and the movement of waves through the Earth  
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Taxonomy   science of classification of animals and plants  
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Thermodynamics   physics of energy, heat, work, entropy and the spontaneity of processes  
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Zoology   study of animals  
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Kilo   1,000 multiples  
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hecto   100 multiples  
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deca   10 multiples  
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deci   0.1 multiples  
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centi   0.01 multiples  
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milli   0.001 multiples  
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1 x 10^2   Scientific notation for 100 (1 times 2 tens)  
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5.7 x 10^6   Scientific notation for 5,700,000  
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6.5 x 10^-3   Scientific notation for 0.0065  
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One chain   22 yards  
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10 chains   1 furlong  
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8 furlongs   1 mile  
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9 square feet   1 square yard  
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4840 square yards   1 acre  
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640 acres   1 square mile  
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100 hectares   1 square kilometer  
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100 square meters   1 are  
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100 ares   1 hectare  
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10,000 square centimeters   1 square meter  
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100 square millimeters   1 square centimeter  
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One ton   1,000 kg  
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16 oz   1 pound  
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Rust   Common chemical change where the reactants oxygen and ion combine to produce iron oxide  
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Isaac Newton   The Newtonian Revolution  
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Albert Einstein   Twentieth-Century Science  
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Neils Bohr   the Atom  
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Charles Darwin   Evolution  
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Louis Pasteur   the Germ Theory of Disease  
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Sigmund Freud   Psychology of the Unconscious, Freudian psychoanalysis (Freudianism)  
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Galileo   Galilei the New Science  
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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier   the Revolution in Chemistry  
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Johannes Kepler   Motion of the planets  
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Nicolaus Copernicus   the Heliocentric Universe  
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Michael Faraday   the Classical Field Theory  
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James Clerk Maxwell   the Electromagnetic Field  
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Claude Bernard   the Founding of Modern Physiology  
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Franz Boas   Modern Anthropology  
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Werner Heisenberg   Quantum Theory  
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Linus Pauling   Twentieth-Century Chemistry  
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Rudolf Virchow   the Cell Doctrine  
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Ernest Rutherford   the Structure of the Atom  
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Paul Dirac   Quantum Electrodynamics  
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Andreas Vesalius   the New Anatomy  
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Tycho Brahe   the New Astronomy  
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Comte de Buffon   l'Histoire Naturelle  
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Ludwig Boltzmann   Thermodynamics  
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Max Planck   the Quanta  
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Erwin Schrodinger   Wave Mechanics  
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Marie Curie   Radioactivity  
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William Herschel   the Discovery of the Heavens  
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Charles Lyell   Modern Geology  
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Pierre Simon de Laplace   Newtonian Mechanics  
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Edwin Hubble   Modern Telescope  
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Joseph J. Thomson   Discovery of the Electron  
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Max Born   Quantum Mechanics  
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Francis Crick   Molecular Biology  
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Enrico Fermi   Atomic Physics  
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Leonard Euler   Eighteenth-Century Mathematics  
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Justus Liebig   Nineteenth-Century Chemistry  
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Arthur Eddington   Modern Astronomy  
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William Harvey   Circulation of the Blood  
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Marcello Malpighi   Microscopic Anatomy  
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Christiaan Huygens   the Wave Theory of Light  
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Albrecht von Haller   Eighteenth-Century Medicine  
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August Kekule   Chemical Structure  
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Robert Koch   Bacteriology  
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Murray Gell-Mann   the Eightfold Way  
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Emil Fischer   Organic Chemistry  
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Dmitri Mendeleev   Periodic Table of Elements  
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Sheldon Glashow   Discovery of Charm  
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James Watson   Structure of DNA  
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John Bardeen   Superconductivity  
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John von Neumann   Modern Computer  
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Richard Feynman   Quantum Electrodynamics  
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Alfred Wegener   Continental Drift  
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Stephen Hawking   Quantum Cosmology  
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Anton van Leeuwenhoek   the Simple Microscope  
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Max von Laue   X-ray Crystallography  
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Gustav Kirchhoff   Spectroscopy  
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Hans Bethe   the Energy of the Sun  
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Euclid   the Foundations of Mathematics  
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Gregor Mendel   the Laws of Inheritance  
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Heike Kamerlingh   Onnes Superconductivity  
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Thomas Hunt Morgan   the Chromosomal Theory of Heredity  
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Hermann von Helmholtz   the Rise of German Science  
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Paul Ehrlich   Chemotherapy  
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Ernst Mayr   Evolutionary Theory  
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Charles Sherrington   Neurophysiology  
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Theodosius Dobzhansky   the Modern Synthesis  
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Max Delbruck   the Bacteriophage  
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Jean Lamarck   the Foundations of Biology  
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William Bayliss   Modern Physiology  
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Noam Chomsky   Twentieth-Century Linguistics  
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Frederick Sanger   the Genetic Code  
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Lucretius   Scientific Thinking  
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John Dalton   the Theory of the Atom  
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Louis Victor de Broglie   Wave/Particle Duality  
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Carl Linnaeu   the Binomial Nomenclature  
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Jean Piaget   Child Development  
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George Gaylord Simpson   the Tempo of Evolution  
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Claude Levi-Strauss   Structural Anthropology  
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Lynn Margulis   Symbiosis Theory  
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Karl Landsteiner   the Blood Groups  
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Konrad Lorenz   Ethology  
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Edward O. Wilson   Sociobiology  
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Frederick Gowland Hopkins   Vitamins  
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Gertrude Belle Elion   Pharmacology  
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Hans Selye   the Stress Concept    
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J. Robert Oppenheimer   the Atomic Era  
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Edward Teller   the Bomb  
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Willard Libby   Radioactive Dating  
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Ernst Haeckel   the Biogenetic Principle  
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Jonas Salk   Vaccination  
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Emil Kraepelin   Twentieth-Century Psychiatry  
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Trofim Lysenko   Soviet Genetics  
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Francis Galton   Eugenics  
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Alfred Binet   the I.Q. Test  
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Alfred Kinsey   Human Sexuality  
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Alexander Fleming   Penicillin  
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B. F. Skinner   Behaviorism  
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Wilhelm Wundt   the Founding of Psychology  
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Archimedes   the Beginning of Science  
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Oxygen   46% of abundance in the Earth's Crust  
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Silicon   28% of abundance in the Earth's Crust  
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Aluminum   8% of abundance in the Earth's Crust  
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Iron   5% of abundance in the Earth's Crust  
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Calcium   4% of abundance in the Earth's Crust  
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Sodium   2% of abundance in the Earth's Crust  
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Magnesium   2% of abundance in the Earth's Crust  
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Potassium   2% of abundance in the Earth's Crust  
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Titanium   .5% of abundance in the Earth's Crust  
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Hydrogen   .14% of abundance in the Earth's Crust  
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Nitrogen   78% of abundance in the Earth's Atmosphere  
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Oxygen   20% of abundance in the Earth's Atmosphere  
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Argon   1% of abundance in the Earth's Atmosphere  
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Carbon Dioxide   .03% of abundance in the Earth's Atmosphere  
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Law of Conservation of Energy   states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but can change its form. The total quantity of matter and energy available in the universe is a constant fixed amount  
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Kinetic Energy   Kinetic Energy exists whenever an object which has mass is in motion with some velocity. Everything you see moving about haskinetic energy.  
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Potential energy   also called gravitational potential energy  
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Heat   kinetic energy of random molecular motion  
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Temperature   measure of the degree of hot or coldness of an object. NOT energy  
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Temperature   is a number that is related to the average kinetic energy of the molecules of a substance. If measured in Kelvin degrees, then this number is directly proportional to the average kinetic energy of the molecules.  
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Heat   measurement of the total energy in a substance. That total energy is made up of not only of the kinetic energies of the molecules of the substance, but total energy is also made up of the potential energies of the molecules  
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Celsius, Fahrenheit, and Kelvin   Three measures of heat  
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Kelvin   Measurement of temperature most often used in astronomy  
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Fahrenheit   US measurement of temperature  
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Celsius   Metric measurement of temperature used in US science research and areas using the metric system  
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conduction   Process where an object touching another object becomes hot  
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Convection   the transfer of heat through a fluid (liquid or gas) caused by molecular motion  
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thermal energy   kinetic energy of the random movement of atoms and molecules.  
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Nuclear fusion   This increases the sun's thermal energy  
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First law of thermodynamics   Energy and matter are interchangable but cannot be created or destroyed. The total amount of energy in the whole universe remains constant, only changing from one form to another.  
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Second Law of thermodynamics   states that any system always tends to move toward its probable state of energy. Most misunderstood law  
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Second law of the thermodynamics (example)   For example, a spring watch will run until the potential energy in the spring is used up. If no new energy is input into it (in the form of winding the spring up) then it has returned to its most probable state, which is really not to run.  
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Third Law of Thermodynamics   entropy of atoms and molecules at absolute zero is zero.  
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Temperature in Celsius   (F-32)/1.8=  
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Temperature in Kelvin   C+273.5=  
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Temperature in Farenheit   (9/5)K-459.67=  
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Game rules of thermodynamics   1) You cannot earn winings 2) You cannot break even 3) You cannot quit  
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Deposition   change from a gas directly to a solid  
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Sublimation   change from a solid directly to a gas  
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entropy   measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system's disorder, that is a property of the system's state  
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entropy   varies directly with any reversible change in heat in the system and inversely with the temperature of the system, the degree of disorder or uncertainty in a system  
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