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Fission
Fusion
Isotope
Velocity
Acceleration
Producers
Consumers
Decompose
Food Chain
Homeostasis
Quantitative
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Conductivity
Solubility
Extinction
Sustainability
Enzyme
Erosion
Fermentation
Energy
Kinetic Energy
Metabolism
Calorie
Joule
Potential Energy
Conduction
Convection
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Insulation
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Half-life
Equilibrium
Analyze
Probability
Volume
Mass
Revolution
Rotation
Universe
Galaxy
Moon
Star
Planet
Atom
Electron
Neutron
Proton
Ion
Matter
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Genome
Heredity
Mitosis
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Photosynthesis
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2. An organism that manufactures its own food, e.g. a green
plant.
3. A measure of the rate of change in the position of an object
as it moves in a particular direction.
4. Each of two or more forms of a chemical element with the
same atomic number but different numbers of neutrons.
6. Capable of being measured or expressed in numerical terms
8. Set of assumptions devised to explain observations.
10. To break something down into smaller or simpler parts.
11. In an ecological community or food chain, an organism that
feeds on other organisms.
12. The ability of an object or substance to transmit heat,
electricity, or sound.
13. A relatively stable state of equilibrium; the maintenance of
a balance of energy and material flow into and out of living
cells.
14. The act or process of separating into parts.
15. The merger or a blending of two or more things such as
materials or ideas.
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1. A non-numerical manner of reporting and collecting data;
descriptive observations.
5. Explanation of scientific phenomena that is proven and
without exception.
7. A measure of the rate of change in the velocity of something
per unit of time.
9. A sequential ordering of organisms in an ecosystem, in
which each uses the previous organism as a food source.
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4. The farthest distance that a vibrating or oscillating system
such as a pendulum travels from a mean or zero point.
5. A biological compound that is not soluble in water, e.g. a fat.
The group also includes waxes, oils, steroids, hormones.
8. The number of times that something such as an oscillation,
a wave, or a cycle is repeated within a specific length of time,
usually one second.
10. The property of a fluid that causes it to resist flowing.
11. To study or determine the nature and relationship of the
parts.
12. The likelihood that something will happen.
13. A biological compound containing carbon, hydrogen, and
oxygen that is an important source of food and energy.
15. Warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the
atmosphere; caused by atmospheric gases that allow sunshine
to pass through but absorb heat that is radiated back from the
warmed surface of the earth.
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1. How much space something occupies.
2. How much matter there is in an object.
3. The time a radioactive substance takes to lose half its
radioactivity through decay.
6. A complex natural substance composed of linked amino
acids; essential to the structure and function of all living cells.
7. The state of a system in which no further net change is
occurring.
9. The act of covering or surrounding something to prevent or
reduce the passage of heat, electricity, or sound.
14. A measure of mass per unit volume.
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5. Characteristic of process or habit which allows this process
or habit to continue indefinitely; involves minimizing energy
and resource loss.
6. Energy The energy of motion; it can be measured from the
work done to put an object in motion, from the mass and
velocity of the object while in motion, or from the amount of
work the object can do because of its motion.
8. Collection of chemical reactions that takes place in cells to
convert the fuel in the food into the energy needed for life
processes.
11. The transfer of heat by the actual movement of the warmed
matter.
12. The ability to do work.
13. A chemical reaction through which organisms break down
an energy-rich compound, typically sugars, without consuming
oxygen and resulting in the formation of alcohol and carbon
dioxide.
14. Proteins that accelerate chemical reactions.
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1. Displacement of solids (soil, mud, rock, and other particles)
usually by the agents of currents such as wind, water, or ice.
2. The cessation of existence of species reducing biodiversity.
3. Energy due to position; energy associated with changes in
position (e.g., gravitational potential energy) or changes in
shape (e.g., Compressed stretched spring).
4. Electromagnetic waves that directly transport ENERGY
through space.
5. Dissolving ability of a given solute in a specified amount of
solvent.
7. The amount of energy required to increase the temperature
of one gram of water one degree Celsius; unit of measurement
for energy in English system.
9. Metric unit used to measure energy; can also be used to
measure heat.
10. The transfer of heat from a region of higher temperature to
a region of lower temperature by increased kinetic energy
moving from molecule to molecule. Example- warmer portions
of water are less dense and, therefore, they rise. Meanwhile,
the cooler portions of the water fall because they are denser.
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2. Anything that occupies space and has mass.
5. A massive, luminous ball of hot gas.
6. An organism’s whole hereditary information encoded in the
DNA.
8. Subatomic particle that has the smallest positive charge.
9. Neutral subatomic particle usually found in the nucleus of an
atom, but gained or lost when atoms become isotopes.
10. In astronomy, one orbit around the sun, making a year.
11. Subatomic particle that has the smallest negative charge
possible and usually found in an orbital of an atom, but gained
or lost when atoms become ions.
13. A massive, gravitationally bound system consisting of
stars, and interstellar medium of gas and dust, and dark
matter.
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1. The summation of all particles and energy that exist and the
space-time in which all events occur.
3. The smallest unit of an element that can exist alone or in
combination with other elements.
4. An atom or a particle that has a net charge because of the
gain or loss of electrons.
6. The science of heredity and variation in living organisms.
7. An object that orbits a planet or other body larger than itself
and which is not man-made.
8. A celestial body orbiting a star that is massive enough to be
rounded by its own gravity, not massive enough to cause
thermonuclear fusion in its core, and has cleared its
neighboring region of planetesimals.
12. In astronomy, one spin on an axis, making one day.
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6. Water that falls to the surface of the earth in the solid or
liquid form.
7. A single large macromolecule of DNA, and constitutes a
physically organized form of DNA in a cell.
9. The conversion of light energy into chemical energy by living
organisms. The raw materials are carbon dioxide and water,
the energy source is sunlight, and the end products include
glucose and oxygen.
10. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains
the genetic instructions used in the development and
functioning of all known living organisms.
12. A chemical process occurring in an organism which
provides energy necessary for that organism’s survival. In
animals and many other organisms, oxygen and sugars react
to release stored chemical’s energy, also producing carbon
dioxide and water.
13. Process of more molecules leaving a liquid for the gaseous
state than returning from the gas to the liquid; it can occur at
any given temperature form the surface of a liquid.
15. Where more vapor or gas molecules are returning to the
liquid state than are evaporating.
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1. A green pigment found in most plants, algae, and
cyanobacteria; chlorophyll is vital for photosynthesis, which
allows plants to obtain energy from light.
2. The supportable population of an organism, given the food,
habitat, water and other necessities available within an
ecosystem.
3. A major geographical area of ecologically similar
communities of plants, animals, and soil organisms, often
referred to as ecosystems.
4. Any evidence of former prehistoric life.
5. The transfer of characteristics form parent to offspring
through the genes.
8. A consumer in a food chain; it must eat other organisms for
food.
11. A producer in a food chain; and organism that produces its
own food from an external energy such as the sun.
14. The process by which a cell duplicates its genetic
information (DNA), in order to generate two identical daughter
cells.