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8th Grade TAKS vocab

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What makes their own food (grass)   Producers  
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What eats producers? (deer)   Consumers  
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What makes waste reusable (mushroom)   Decomposers  
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Organisms of the same kind that can reproduce fertile off-spring   Species  
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A community of organisms and abiotic (nonliving) environment   Ecosystems  
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Balance or ability to maintain balance   Equilibrium/Homeostatis  
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Slow process by which ecosystems change and develop over time   Ecological succession  
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Genetic material for passing on traits; contained in the nucleus of the cell   DNA  
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A messaging system that the body uses to maintain homestasis   Feedback Mechanisms  
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Distinguising features passed on to offspring   Traits/characteristics  
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Characteristics of a substance that can be observed or measured without changing the composition   Physical properties  
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Characteristics that are passed from a parent to its offspring through genes   Inherited  
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Substances made up of two or more elements   Compounds  
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A property of matter that describes the way a substance reacts with other substances to form NEW substance with different properties   Chemical Properties  
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A simple machine made with a bar free to move about a fixed point called a fulcrum   Lever  
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A simple machine that can change the direction of a force or it can change the amount of force   Pulley  
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Cause change in speed or direction   Unbalanced Forces  
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The distance between any two similar points along a wave   Wavelength  
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The maximum distance of a wave as measured from the crest to their at rest position   Amplitude  
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The number of waves that pass a single point in a given amount of time   Frequency  
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A chemical reaction in which heat energy is released, you can feel the warmth   Exothermic  
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A chemical reaction which absorbs heat energy; you can feel the coolness   Endothermic  
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The process by which water, ice, wind, and heat act to break down rocks   Weathering  
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The act of depositing and layering down of matter by a natural process   Deposition  
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Heat energy (ex:, sun sending heat to Earth)   Thermal energy  
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The energy which is possessed by an object due to its motion or due to its position; either kinetic or potential energy   Mechanical energy  
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The energy released from chemical reactions   Chemical energy  
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Energy at rest, stored energy   Potential energy  
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The energy of moving electrons, the primary source of energy used in our homes   Electrical energy  
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Energy in motion   Kinetic energy  
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Resources that can be replaced in a persons life EX: trees, water   Renewable  
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The process which wind, water, ice and gravity remove and transport material from one place to another   Erosion  
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Resource that cannot be replaced once it is consumed EX: fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas)   Nonrenewable  
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