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Ruthie's Science Voc
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Transpiration | The release of water vapor mainly through the small openings on the underside of the leaf that drives the movement of materials through a plant. |
| Adaptation | A trait that helps a living thing survive in its enviornment |
| Stimulus | Something in the environment that causes action |
| response | A reaction from a stimulus |
| tropism | A plant's response to water, gravity, light and touch |
| Internal Structures | Structures that are found inside an organism's body |
| external structures | Structures that are part of the outside of an organisms body |
| Structural Adaptations | Inherited change to physical features that helps an organisms survive and reproduce. |
| Sensory Organs | Organs such as skin, eyes, ears, nose, tongue, touch taht gather info from outside the body |
| Echolocation | The process of finding an object by using reflected sound |
| Neverous Systems | the set of organs that use information from the senses to control all body systems |
| Central Nervous System | part of the nervous system made up of the brain and spinal cord |
| brain | an organ in the nervous system that interprets messages received, and sends messages to other organs |
| Spinal cord | A thick bundle of nerves inside the spine |
| Peripheral Nerve | a set of nerves that connect the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body |
| Opaque | completely blocking light from passing through |
| image | a picture of the light source that light rays make in bouncing off a polished, shiny surface. |
| refration | the bending of light as it passes from one transparent material to another |
| Concave lens | a lens that is thinner in the middle that always makes objects smaller |
| Convex Lens | A lens that is thick in the middle and always makes objects bigger |
| Transparent | letting all light through |
| Translucent | letting only some light through |
| Binary Code | a system that represents letters, digits, or other characters using 0's and 1's |
| coding | the process of writing a computer program in a language that can be used by a computer. |