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| A structure, behavior, or trait that helps an organism survive | adaptation
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| A large body or bubble of air that has the same temperature all the way through it | air mass
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| an object's height above sea level | altitude
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| a change in an object's speed | acceleration
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| to examine the parts of | analyze
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| the layer of air between Earth's surface and outer space | atmosphere
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| an animal that lives in water when young and on land when an adult | amphibian
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| a weather insturment that measures wind speed | anemometer
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| an animal that has a hard outer skeleton and legs with joints | arthropod
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| a large flat surface on the ocean floor | abyssal plain
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| the presence of harmful substances in the air | air pollution
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| the weight of air pushing on everything around it | air pressure
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| a large space rock that orbits the sun | asteroid
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| an imaginary line that passes from the North Pole to the South Pole through the center of Earth | axis
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| a graph that uses bars to compare the same kind of data for different things | bar graph
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| a weather instrument that measures air pressure | barometer
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| something an organism does in response to its environment | behavior
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| fuel that comes from plants and animals | biomass
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| the boiling point of water in celsius | 100 degrees
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| the boiling point of water in fahrenheit | 212 degrees
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| the freezing point of water in celsius | 0 degrees
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| the freezing point of water in fahrenheit | 32 degrees
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| the upward push of a liquid or gas on an object | buoyant force
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| the shape, color, or pattern of an animal that helps it blend in with its surroundings | camouflage
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| a gas needed by plants for photosynthesis | carbon dioxide
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| an animal that eats only meat | carnivore
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| a graph that compares parts to the whole | circle or pie graph
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| a closed path through which electricity travels | circuit
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| all of the living things in an ecosystem | community
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| the struggle between two organisms to obtain the same resource | competition
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| a feature that helps an organism survive | characteristic
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| a region in which particles are bunched together | compression
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| a judgement supported by fact | conclusion
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| when a substance changes from liquid to gas | condensation
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| a material that allows energy to travel through it easily or quickly | conductor
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| the careful use and protection of natural resources | conservation
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| an organism that feeds on other organisms | consumer
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| a feature that does not change in an experiment | control
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| an enormous,slowly moving landmass that floats on Earth's surface | continent
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| the flow of charges through a circuit | current
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| the smallest living part of an organism | cell
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| a green substance in plant leaves that captures the energy in sunlight | chlorophyll
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| a high feathery cloud made of ice crystals | cirrus cloud
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| the grouping of organisms based on their simliarities and differences | classification
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| the leading side or edge of a moving mass of cooler air | cold front
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| a mountain sized chunk of ice and dust that orbits the sun | comet
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| populations of different kinds (species) of organisms that live in the same place at the same time | community
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| a tool that uses a magnetized pointer to show north | compass
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| a lens that is thinner in the center and thicker at the edges. It bends light outwards. | concave
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| a lens that is thicker in the middle and thinner on the edges. It bends light inwards. | convex
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| when a gas changes to a liquid | condensation
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| The very center of earth. | inner core
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| Earth's outer layer. | the crust
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| a jellylike liquid that fills most of a cell | cytoplasm
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| Information that is collected. | data
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| an organism that gets energy by feeding on dead material and wastes | decomposer
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| the amount of mass in a substance | density
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| a biome with very little rain and few plants. May be hot or cold. | desert
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| to disperse | to scatter
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| to mix evenly and separate into particles too small to be seen. | dissolve
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| something that can be measured using a ruler | distance
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| a period of dryness | drought
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| one object in space casting its shadow on another object in space | eclipse
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| all of the living and nonliving things that interact with each other in an environment | ecoystem
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| a magnet made by wrapping a wire around a metal object such as a nail and sending a current through it by attaching it to a battery | electromagnet
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| what organisms get from food | energy
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| an organism's surroundings | environment
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| these are caused when earth's plate move | earthquakes
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| when rocks or soil is worn away by wind, water, or ice | erosion
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| when a liquid becomes a gas | evaporation
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| no longer living on earth | extinct
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| a flattened oval circle | ellipse
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| a diagram that shows the amount of energy passed on at each level of a food chain | energy pyramid
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| the surroundings an organism lives in | environment
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| an imaginary line that circles earth halfway between the North and South poles | eguator
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| a hard outer covering that protects an animal's soft body parts inside | exoskeleton
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| a crack in earth's crust | fault
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| a device used to separate the parts of a mixture by passing the mixture through it | filter
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| a cloud that forms close to the ground | fog
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| mountains that formed when land was squeezed together | folded mountain
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| the path of food energy from one organism to another | food chain
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| overlapping food chains that shows different paths the energy flows | food web
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| a push or a pull | force
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| the remains or traces of an organism that lived long ago | fossil
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| a fuel formed from the decayed remains of ancient plants and animals | fossil fuel
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| to change from a liquid to a solid when the temperature drops | freeze
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| the largest planet in the solar system | Jupiter
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| between Mars and Jupiter | asteroid belt
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| how many times something occurs | frequency
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| a force between two surfaces rubbing against each other | friction
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| a place where one air mass meets anther air mass | front
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| a structure that grows from a flower of any plant and contains seeds | fruit
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| a material that is burned to produce heat energy | fuel
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| a job that something does | function
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| the growth or sprouting of a new plant from a seed | germination
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| the force that causes attraction between objects | gravity
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| a group of millions of stars | galaxy
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| a state of matter which takes the shape and volume of its container | gas
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| heat from melted rock deep below earth's surface used to heat buildings and produce electricity | geothermal energy
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| structures in an organism that removes oxygen from water | gills
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| a large body of moving ice that stays frozen all year | glacier
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| the place where an organism lives | habitat
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| anything that is dangerous | hazard
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| the line at the bottom of a graph | horizontal axis
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| water vapor in the air | humidity
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| decaying plant and animal materil in soil | humus
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| electricity that is produced from flowing water like that moving through a dam | hydroelectricity
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| all the water on earth | hydrosphere
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| a weather instrument that measures humidity | hygrometer
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| a predicted answer to a scientific question | hypothesis
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| a rock formed from cooled lava | igneous rock
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| the tendency of an object at rest to remain at rest or of a moving object to keep moving | inertia
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| an animal that eats only plants | herbivore
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| a that cannot be used up | inexhaustible resource
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| a characteristic passed from parent to offspring | inherited trait
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| another word for an organism's children | offspring
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| a behavior passed from parent to offspring | instinct
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| to explain what you think certain information means | interpret
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| the center of earth made of solid metal | inner core
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| a material that does not let energy pass through it | insulator
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| an animal that does not have a backbone | invertebrate
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| the energy of motion | kinetic energy
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| a natural feature on earth's surface like a mountain, valley, or plateau | landform
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| the changed behavior of an organism because of practice or experience it has gained | learned behavior
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| an object used to refract light | lens
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| the stages of development an organism goes through as it grows and develops | life cycle
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| the small wormlike stage in the life cycle of some insects | larva
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| this energy is faster than sound and can be broken into a rainbow | light energy
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| a graph used to show change | line graph
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| a state of matter that takes the shape of its container but has a definite volume | liquid
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| all the rocks on earth | lithosphere
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| melted rock below earth's surface | magma
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| an object that attracts iron | magnet
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| an animal with a backbone, fur or hair, lungs, live birth, feeds mile | mammal
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| earth's layer below the crust | mantle
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| a diagram that show locatiions | map
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| the amount of matter in something | mass
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| the stuff or material that everything is made of: it has mass and takes up space | matter
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| a rock that is formed when another kind of rock is squeezed and heated deep inside earth | metamorphic rock
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| the changes in form some insect go through | metamorphosis
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| the seasonal movement of some animals from one place to another | migration
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| when one animal looks like another to help it survive | mimicry
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| a combination of two or more substances that can be easily separated | mixture
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| a picture or object that represents something else | model
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| a natural object that orbits a planet | moon
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| the role an organism has in its environment | niche
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| a resource that can be used up | nonrenewable resource
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| materials in the environment that are useful to people | natural resources
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| a substance that an organism needs to survive and grow | nutrient
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| an animal that eats plants and animals | omnivore
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| the curved path an object follows around another | orbit
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| a living thing | organism
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| the layer of earth between the mantle and innercore | outer core
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| a layer of gas high in earth's atmosphere that blocks some of the harmful radiation from the sun | ozone
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| the changes in the way the moon looks as it orbits the earth | moon phases
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| the process of plants making food | photosynthesis
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| something that is done to prevent an accident | precaution
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| any form of water that falls from the sky | precipitation
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| an animal that hunts other animals | predator
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| an animal that is hunted by others | prey
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| an organism that can make its own food | producer
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| a stage in metamorphosis when the larva is changing into an adult (in a cocoon) | pupa
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| an electric circuit in which each device has its own separate loop or circle | parallel circuit
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| how high or low a sound is | pitch
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| a huge piece of earth's crust | plate
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| all the organisms of the same species that live in the same place | population
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| a glass bar that separates light into the color of the rainbow | prism
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| red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet | what ROY G BIV stands for
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| to reuse materials | recycle
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| the bending of light when it moves from one material to another | refraction
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| a resource that can be replaced in a short time | renewable resource
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| any material an animal needs for survival and is availabe in its habitat | resource
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| an animal that feeds on dead animals like a buzzard | scavenger
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| a developing plant embryo | seed
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| energy that comes from the sun | solar energy
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| a type of mixture in which the ingredients dissolve into each other and cannot be easily separated | solution
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| vibrations that can be heard | sound
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| the changes that take place in an ecosystem over time | succession
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| a medium sized star closest to earth | sun
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| when both sides of an object are the same | symmetry
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| when light rays bounce back from an object | reflection
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| to make more of the same kind | reproduce
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| an animal with a backbone, leathery skin or scales, lungs, lays eggs or gives birth to live young | reptile
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| one complete trip around the sun | revolution
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| plant structures that hold a plant in place and take in nutrients from the soil | roots
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| the spinning of a planet on its axis | rotation
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| the amount of salt in something | salinity
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| a kind of grassland | savanna
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| a rock formed when sediments are pressed together | sedimentary rock
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| bits of rock , sand, shell, and the remains of organisms | sediment
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| an electricity circuit where the devices are connected in one straight loop | series circuit
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| solar energy | energy from the sun
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| the state of matter with a definite shape and definite volume | solid
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| the ability to dissolve | solubility
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| solid, liquid , gas are | states of matter
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| physical property related to heat | temperature
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| if you can observe it and measure it you can | test it
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| the roughness of a material | texture
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| one complete investigation | trial
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| a tool that measures temperature | thermometer
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| a characteristic of an organism | trait
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| a giant ocean wave caused by earthquake | tsunami
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| validity means | truthful
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| the part of an experiment that is different, the part that is being tested | variable
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| a process that breaks down rocks | weathering
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| a place that is airless space | vacuum
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| an animal with a backbone | vertebrate
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| the up and down line at the side of a graph | vertical axis
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| the amount of space something takes up | volume
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| the gas state of water | water vapor
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| nothing can grow on the moon because there is no | atmosphere
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| how long it takes earth to rotate on its axis one time | 24 hours
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| how long it takes earth to revolve around the sun one time | 365 days
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| how long it takes the moon to go through its cycle one time | 29 days
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| a dog learning to sit is an example of a | learned behavior
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| a dog getting immunity from rabies is an example of | acquired trait
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| a dog being born with long ears like his mother is an example of a | inherited trait
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| a bird building a nest is an example of | inherited behavior
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| white on the right means the moon is | waxing
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| black on the right means the moon is | waning
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