Science Charades Flashcards
(200 cards)
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The parts of the body containing the digestive organs
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Abdomen
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Take in or soak up energy or other substances
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Absorb
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- A rainfall by sufficiently atmospheric pollution that cause most harm to forests and rivers
- rain or any other form of precipitation that is acidic
- acid precipitation falling as rain
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Acid rain
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Something suitable for a new use or purpose
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Adapt
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The force exerted by air. Whether compressed or unconfined. On any surface in contact with it
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Air pressure
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A cold blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water
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Amphibian
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The space (usually measured in degrees) between two intersecting lines or surfaces at or close to the point were they meet
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Angle
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- A part of an insect that is used to signal danger
* A rod, wire or other device used to transmit or receive radio or television signals
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Antenna
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A scientist who study’s astronomy
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Astronomer
10
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The envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet
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Atmosphere
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- A source of nuclear energy
- The smallest unit of matter
- Something that is small and makes something else
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Atom
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A state of equilibrium or equipoise equal distribution of weight
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Balance
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An instrument measuring atmospheric pressure
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Barometer
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- A scientist who study’s living organisms
- scientist who studies life specifically organisms and their relationship to their environment
- a specialist in biology
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Biologist
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A warm blooded egg laying vertebrate distinguished by the possession of feathers wings and a beak and (typically) being able to fly
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Bird
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The temperature in which liquid boils
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Boiling point
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The branch of biology that deals with plant life
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Botanist
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- units of energy
* a unit equal to the kilocalorie used to express the heat output of an organism and the fuel or energy value of food
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Calorie
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- the use of any combination colors
* clothing made of fabric with a mottled design usually in shades of green and brown as that used in military camouflage
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Camouflage
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An an animal that eats flesh/meat
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Carnivore
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Example: blood cell
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Cell
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A characteristic of a unit of matter that expresses the extent to which it has more or fewer electrons that protons
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Charge
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A scientist that researches and experiments with properties or other chemicals
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Chemist
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To crunch/grind with your teeth
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Chew
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* any of several threadlike bodies consisting of chromatin that carry the genes in liner order: the human species has 23 pairs designated 1-22 in order of decreasing size and X and Y for the female and male sex chromosomes respectively
* a threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells carrying genetic information in the form of genes
Chromosome
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A complete and closed path around which a circulating electric current can flow
Circuit
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* A sharp division
| * a split
Cleavage
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The average weather of an area
Climate
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The rotation of the hands of a clock as viewed from the front or above
Clockwise
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* A visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere typically high above the ground
* any similar mass especially of smoke or dust
Cloud
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The boundary of an advancing mass of cold air in particular in trailing edge of the warm sector of a low pressure system
Cold front
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A central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun
Comet
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An instrument for determining directions as by means of a freely rotating magnetized needle that indicates magnetic north
Compass
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A mixture that is composed of two or more desperate elements
Compound
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The act of compressing and the state of being compressed
Compression
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Process or the state of changing a substance from gas to liquid or solid
Condensation
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A material through which heat can pass through easily
Conductor
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A group of stars forming a shape/recognizable pattern
Constellation
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Any living being that consumes food made by a producer
Consumer
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To make smaller
Contract
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The cup shaped depression of cavity on the surface of the earth or other heavenly body marking the orifice of a volcano
Crater
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A dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity associated with thunderstorms
Cumulonimbus
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A heap or a pile
Cumulus
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A stream of electric charge
Current
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* to become decomposed
| * rot
Decay
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An organism that feeds on decomposing organic materials
Decomposer
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Any series of steps or stages as in a process or course of action a point in any scale
Degree
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A region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all
Desert
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The process of breaking down food into substance that can be used by the body
Digestion
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A system that the food goes down and turns into acid
Digestive system
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To become melted or liquified
Dissolve
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* a nucleic acid that carries the genetic information cells and some viruses consisting of two long chains of nucleotides hydrogen bonds
* features that characterize a person or thing
* to set off non-genetic traits qualities or features that characterize a person or thing
DNA
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A membrane of the middle ear that vibrates in response to sound waves
Eardrum
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* when the earth is shaking
* a series of vibrations induced in the earths crust by the abrupt rupture and rebound of rocks in which elastic strain has been slowly accumulating
Earthquake
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The total or partial hiding of a planter star or moon by another
Eclipse
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A form of energy resulting from the existence of charged particles
Electricity
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* the height to which something is elevated or to which it rises
* the action or fact of elevating or being elevated
Elevation
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The internal skeleton
Endoskeleton
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*The capacity or power to do work such as the capacity to move an object (of a given mass) by the application of force
Energy
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A person who operates or is in charge of an engine
Engineer
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The aggregate of surrounding things
Environment
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The great circle of the earth that is equidistant from the North Pole and South Pole
Equator
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To eat into or away
Erode
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An approximate calculation or judgement of the valve number quantity or extent of something
Estimate
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To change from a liquid to a gas
Evaporation
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A hard outer structure such as the shell on an insect or crustacean that provides protection or support for an organism
Exoskeleton
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To get larger
Expand
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An animal that dies out completely
Extinct
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Threadlike piece
Fiber
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Action or process of moving through the air
Flight
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Move or hover slowly and lightly in a liquid or the air
Float
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The blossom of a plant
Flower
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A system interlocking and independent food chains the natural interconnection of food chains
Food web
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Push/pull
Force
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An area that is dense with trees and other plants
Forest
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The remains of people plant and/or animals
Fossil
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To become hardened into ice or into a solid body
Freeze
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The action of one surface or object rubbing against another
Friction
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A mushroom
Fungus
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* A group of solar systems
| * a system of millions or billions of stars together with gas and dust held together by gravitational attraction
Galaxy
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State of matter consisting of particles that have neither a defined volume nor defined shape
Gas
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Someone who studies rocks
Geologist
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To begin to grow or develop
Germinate
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The paired respiratory organ of fishes and some amphibians by which oxygen is extracted from water
Gills
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A term used to describe a gradual increase in the average temperature of the earths climate
Global warming
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A large open Area of country covered with grass especially when used for grazing
Grassland
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The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth or toward any other physical body having mass
Gravity
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* a phenomenon in which the planets atmospheric gases allow incoming sunlight to pass through but retain much of the heat radiated back from the planets surface
* the process by which radiation from the atmosphere
* when gases get stuck in the solar system
Greenhouse effect
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The natural home or environment of an animal plant or other organism
Habitat
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* the quality of being hot
| * hot temperatures
Heat
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An animal that feeds on plants
Herbivore
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A quantity representing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere or a gas
Humidity
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A rich soil
Humus
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A storm with a violent wind in particular
Hurricane
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Frozen water
Ice
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Formed from the solidification of motion rock mineral
Igneous rock
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A small arthropod animal that has six legs and generally one or two pairs of wings
Insect
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The connection made between the bones and the body
Joints
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An organ that holds water
Kidney
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A flat surface attached to a plant
Leaf
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Rigid bar resting on a pivot used to help move a heavy or firmly fixed load with one end when pressure is applied to the other
Lever
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Raise to a high lever of position
Lift
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Something that makes vision possible
Light
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A sudden electrical discharge during an electrical storm
Lightning
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A phase of matter in which atoms or molecules that can move freely while remaining in contact with another
Liquid
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An object that attracts metal and attracts opposite force and repels the same
Magnet
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Warm blooded vertebrae animal of milk by females for the nourishment of the young and typically the birth of love young
Mammal
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A diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea
Map
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Solid/liquid/gas
Matter
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The assignment of a number to a characteristic of an object or event
Measure
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Become liquified by heat
Melt
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A lot of rocks formed together by heat and pressure
Metamorphic rock
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A profound change in the form one stage to the next in the cycle of an organism
Metamorphosis
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The biggest meteor shower of the season
Meteor
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The fundamental unit of length in the metric system equal to 100 centimeters
Meter
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To move from one region or habitat to another especially regularly according to the seasons
Migrate
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A substance obtained by mining a ore
Mineral
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Contains two or more substances that are not chemically combined
Mixture
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Small part of something
Molecule
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* The natural satellite of earth by reflecting light from the sun
* giant rock in space
* nighttime
Moon
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The action or process of moving or being moved
Motion
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A band or bundle of tissue in a human or animal body that has the ability to contract producing movement in or maintaining the position of parts of the body
Muscle
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The doctrine that mutual dependence is necessary to social well being
Mutualism
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A very large expansion of sea in particular each of the main areas into which the sea is divided geographically
Ocean
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An animal or person that eats food both if plans and meat
Omnivore
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The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star planet or moon
Orbit
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A collection of tissues joined in a structural unit
Organ
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An individual animal plant or single celled life
Organism
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A type of zoologist who focuses on birds
Ornithologist
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A colorless odorless reactive gas forms about 20 percent of the earths atmosphere and is the most abundant element in the earths crust
Oxygen
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Has two or more paths for a current flow through
Parallel circuit
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An organism that lives in or on another organism
Parasite
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A weight hung from a fixed point
Pendulum
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The process in which plants use sunlight to make their own food
Photosynthesis
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A scientist that specializes in physics
Physicist
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A celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star
Planet
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An area of relatively level high ground
Plateau
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A substance that is capable of causing illness or death of a living organism when introduced or absorbed
Poison
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Either of the two similar points on another planet
Pole
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The presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects
Pollution
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A rock or other material that have spaces or holes in them
Porous
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A tract of grassland meadow
Prairie
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Rain snow sleet or hail that falls to the ground
Precipitation
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An animal that naturally preys on others
Predator
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Nutrients found in food is a necessary part of the diet and is essential for normal cell structure and function
Protein
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To exert force typically by taking hold of them in order to move or try to move them toward oneself or the origin of the force
Pull
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The amour of material
Quantity
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A hard silica mineral found worldwide in many different types of rocks including sandstone and granite
Quartz
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* The act or process of radiating
| * emission of energy in the form of waves or particles
Radiation
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To treat or process so as to make suitable for reuse
Recycle
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To push back or away by a force as one body acting upon another
Repel
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* a cold blooded creature
* cold blooded vertebrae class that includes snakes lizards crocodiles turtles and tortoises they have dry scaly skin and typically lay soft shelled eggs on land
Reptiles
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The refusal to accept to prevent something by action or argument
Resistance
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Move in a circle on a central axis
Revolve
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A natural stream of water fairly large size flowing in a definite course of channels
River
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A rocket is a missile spacecraft aircraft or other vehicle that obtains thrust from a rocket engine
Rocket
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The organ of a plant that typically lies below
Roots
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The action of rotating around an axis or center
Rotation
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The water in your mouth
Saliva
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The instrument for weighing
Scale
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A type of fastener or bolt typically made of metal
Screw
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One of the four periods of the year
Season
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* One of the 3 main types of rocks
* type of rock that has formed through the deposition and solidification of sediment
* often deposited in layers
Sedimentary rock
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The fertilized matured ovule of a plant containing an embryo or baby plant
Seed
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A circuit designed so that a current can only flow into one path
Series circuit
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A dark area shape produced by your body coming between rays of light and a surface
Shadow
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* the soft outer covering of your body
| * the largest organ
Skin
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When a problem is solved
Solution
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A wave that is formed when a sound is made and that moves through the air and carries the sound to your ear
Sound wave
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Three dimensional area around you including the universe
Space
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A small membranous protrusion from a neuron dendrite
Spine
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A fixed luminous point in the night sky that is large remote incandescent body like the sun
Star
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Electric charge that has accumulated on an object
Static
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The long green attachment to a plant that transfers nutrients through the plant
Stem
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An organ in the digestive system on the left side of the body behind the lower rib cage that receives chewed food from the esophagus
Stomach
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A sweet crystalline substance
Sugar
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The star around which the earth orbits
Sun
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The daily disappearance of the sun below the horizon as a result of earths rotation
Sunset
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What contains the taste of food
Taste buds
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* plural of tooth
| * a bone you use to chew
Teeth
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An optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer
Telescope
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The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment
Temperature
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An instrument for measuring and indicating temperature
Thermometer
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A loud rumbling or clashing noise heard after a lightning flash due to the expansion of rapidly heated air
Thunder
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A mobile destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel shaped cloud
Tornado
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* A physical vector quantity both magnitude and direction are needed to define its speed
* a high wind
* rapidly of motion or operation swiftness
* speed
Velocity
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To move rhythmically and steadily to and fro
Vibrate
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The amount of space that a substance can hold
Volume
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To decrease in strength
Waning
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When a warm air mass pushes a cold air mass
Warm front
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Have a progressively larger part of its visible surface illuminated increasing its apparent size
Waxing
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The state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat dryness sunshine wind rain
Weather
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A simple lifting machine consisting of a rope that unwinds from a wheel onto a cylindrical drum of shaft to provide a mechanical advantage
Wheel & axle
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The level below which the ground is saturated with water
Water table
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The pull of gravity on an object
Mass
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A community of animals plants or humans among whose members interbreeding occurs
Population
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Animal or human that can be eaten by an animal
Prey
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Organisms that produce food through photosynthesis
Producer
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The upper layer of the earth where plants grow
Soil
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One of the states of matter it has a fixed shape and a fixed volume
Solid
