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Life on Earth
7th Grade Unit 15
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Habitable Zone | the area around a star where conditions are just right for liquid water to exist on a planet's surface |
| Astronomical Unit (au) | the average distance between Earth and the Sun, which is about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers, usually used to measure distances in the solar system |
| Solvent | a substance that can dissolve other substances, called solutes, to form a homogeneous mixture called a solution |
| Dissolve | the process of a substance breaking apart or being absorbed into another substance |
| Cohesion | molecules of the same kind stick together. |
| Atmosphere | a mixture of gases that surrounds the Earth or other planet |
| Insulate | the process of reducing or preventing the transfer of heat, electricity, or sound to or from an object, device, or region |
| Proximity | how near objects are located from each other |
| Boiling Point | the temperature at which the substance transitions from a liquid to the gaseous phase. |
| Dense | a measure of how heavy something is for its size, or its mass compared to its volume: |