ACT Testprep science Word Scramble
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term | definition |
beta particle | a high-speed electron |
bog | wet spongy ground; especially : a poorly drained usually acid area rich in accumulated plant material, frequently surrounding a body of open water |
capillary | any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules. |
chromatid | one copy of a duplicated chromosone |
equilibrium | a state of rest or balance due to the equal action of opposing forces. |
infrared | having a wavelength just greater than that of the red end of the visible light spectrum but less than that of microwaves |
hexane | |
manometer | |
mesopause | |
montane | of, relating to, growing in, or being the biogeographic zone of relatively moist cool upland slopes below timberline dominated by large coniferous trees |
paleozoic | of, relating to, or denoting the era between the Precambrian eon and the Mesozoic era. |
peat | a brown, soil-like material characteristic of boggy, acid ground, consisting of partly decomposed vegetable matter |
pinnate | resembling a feather especially in having similar parts arranged on opposite sides of an axis like the barbs on the rachis of a feather |
polyrhythm | the simultaneous occurrence of sharply contrasting rhythms within a composition. |
pore water | water contained in pores in soil or rock |
pyrotechnics | |
recasting | give (a metal object) a different form by melting it down and reshaping it |
retention time | the time it takes a solute to travel through the column |
rift | |
seemingly | so as to give the impression of having a certain quali |
semipermeable | |
rallies | |
speculate | form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence. |
stagnant | having no current or flow and often having an unpleasant smell as a consequence. |
stratopause | the interface between the stratosphere and the ionosphere |
sucrose | a compound that is the chief component of cane or beet sugar. |
tropopause | the interface between the troposphere and the stratosphere. |
uninhibited | not inhibited or restricted |
vapor plume | |
water table | the level below which the ground is saturated with water. |
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