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A property of matter which tells the quantity of energy of motion of the particles in that matter. |
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| increase in size and change in shape caused by the activities of cells |
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| The usual pattern of weather in a particular place |
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| The attraction between two masses |
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| The advantage created by a machine that enables people to do work while using less force |
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| rocks changed by temperature and pressure within the crust of the Earth |
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| Water from the atmosphere that falls to the ground as a liquid (rain) or a solid |
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| The blocking of light from the sun |
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| When a piece of material from space (a meteoroid) burns up in the earth's atmosphere |
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| The number of organisms an ecosystem can support without change to the organisms or to the ecosystem |
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| An idea based on faith, reason, or trust. |
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| The degree to which the viewed object is enlarged |
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| The act of adjusting a lens to make the image appear sharp and well defined |
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| A characteristic determined by an allele that is expressed over any other alleles for a given trait |
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| A threadlike package of wound up DNA in the nucleus of a cell that carries the genes |
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| Any organism that cannot produce its own food and must, therefore, get its energy by eating, or consuming, other organisms |
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| The resistance to motion between two surfaces in contact |
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| The force exerted on a surface divided by the area of the surface |
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| The rate at which liquids pass through soil or other materials in a specified direction |
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| A compound that is produced by chemical synthesis, rather than of natural origin |
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| A possible explanation for a set of observations |
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| Reproduction in which offspring arise from a single parent and inherit the genes of that parent only |
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| The series of steps that a cell must go through to divide |
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| A series of events or steps which ultimately lead back to the starting point |
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| A trait that is expressed only when two copies of the allele responsible for the trait are present. |
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| A judgment statement based on the results of an experiment |
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| Living or growing in or on the water. |
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| A soil containing a mixture of clay, silt and sand that is best for the growth of most plants. |
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| A test of a hypothesis done under controlled conditions. |
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| The part of the experiment that does not contain the variable. |
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