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Cycles of Life
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| life cycles | stages that living things go through from birth to adult |
| Earth's rotation | cause daytime and nighttime |
| hemisphere | half of Earth as divided north and south by the equator. We live in the Northern Hemisphere. |
| Earth's revolution | Earth one year to make one revolution around the sun |
| precipitation | water that falls from the sky as rain, snow, sleet, or hail |
| germination | the process in which a seed begins to grow into a plant |
| seasons | Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter happen in a cycle over and over in the same order |
| humidity | the amount of moisture or water vapor in the air |
| matamorphosis | the process by which some young animals change form as they become adults |
| condensation | the process by which a gas changes into a liquid |
| protective | helpful at keeping someone or something safe |
| transparent | see through |
| burrow | to make a hole or passage into or under something |
| replenished | replaced or refilled |
| thrive | grow and develop well |
| butterfly | hatches from an egg as a larva in the form of a caterpillar. changes from a larva to a pupa to an adult insect with a head, body, and wings. |
| frogs | changes from a fish-like larva with gills, called a tadpole, to a four-legged adult with lungs goes through stages of metamorphosis from tadpole to adult. |
| chickens | uses its egg tooth to hatch from an egg that has a shell, a yolk, and albumen |