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MSA Vocab Page 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Satellite | An object that moves around the Earth or some other object rather than on falling onto it |
| Scavenger | An organism that feeds on dead organic matter |
| Sea floor spreading | Process by which new ocean floor is formed by lava erupting from a rift valley, pushing the existent floor outward from the rift |
| Seasons | Changes in temperature and the length of day and night over the course of a year |
| Sediment | Small pieces of rock, shell, and plant and animal matter that is moved and deposited by water, wind, or ice |
| Sedimentary rock | Rock formed from sedimentation |
| Sedimentation | The settling out of fragments of weathered rock or remains of living things that are carried and deposited by wind, water, or ice |
| Selective breeding | Selection for specific traits imposed by humans, either deliberately or otherwise, upon wild or domesticated plants and animals |
| Series circuit | An electric circuit in which the current passes through only one pathway |
| Sexual reproduction | Mode of reproduction involving two parents, usually involving meiosis, gamete formation, and fertilization |
| Solar energy | Energy from the Sun in the form of light and heat energy |
| Solar System | The Sun with the group of celestial bodies that revolve around it |
| Solid | The state in which a substance has a definite volume and shape and resists forces which try to change these |
| Solubility | Ability of a substance to dissolve in another substance |
| Solution | Mixture in which the molecules of one substance (solute) are dissolves in another substance (solvent) |
| Sound | Longitudinal wave produced by the vibration of a material |
| Species | Organisms whose members are alike and successfully reproduce among themselves |
| Speed | A scalar quantity that describes the change in position in a certain period of time (how fast something is moving) (compare with velocity) |
| Spring scale | Tool that is calibrated in Newtons and is used to measure the weight of an object |
| Spring tide | Tide that occurs during the full and new moon phases in which the water level is higher than normal |
| Standard unit | Inches, feet, yard, centimeters, meters, grams, ounces, pounds, Celsius degrees, Fahrenheit degrees, hours and minutes and non-standard units (i.e. paper clips) |
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