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| The process of breaking down and wearing away rock. |
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| The process in which materials eroded by water, wind, or ice are dropped in a new place. |
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| A large flat area of land at the mouth of a river |
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| A hill of sand that is deposited by the wind |
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| A large area of flat ground that is much higher than the land around it |
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| A landform that forms when rivers or glaciers wear away rock and soil |
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| A large body of moving ice that stays frozen all year |
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| A natural structure on Earth’s surface |
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| The movement of weathered materials by water, wind, or ice |
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| The process of breaking down and wearing away rock. |
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| The process in which materials eroded by water, wind, or ice are dropped in a new place. |
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| A large flat area of land at the mouth of a river |
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| A hill of sand that is deposited by the wind |
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| A large area of flat ground that is much higher than the land around it |
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| A landform that forms when rivers or glaciers wear away rock and soil |
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| A large body of moving ice that stays frozen all year |
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| A natural structure on Earth’s surface |
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| The remains or traces of an organism that lived long ago |
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| The study of the Earth and the materials which it is made of, the structure of those materials, and the forces acting upon them. |
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| The study of prehistoric life, including organisms' evolution and interactions with each other and their environments |
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| One who studies prehistoric life |
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| Bits of rocks, soil, sand, shells, and the remains of organisms |
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| Rock that formed when sediments were pressed and cemented together |
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| Fuel that comes from plants and animals |
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| A fuel that formed from the decayed remains of ancient plants and animals |
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| Heat from melted rock deep below Earth’s surface, used to heat buildings and produce electricity |
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| Electricity that is produced using the energy of water moving through a dam |
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| A resource that can never be used up |
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| A resource that nature cannot replace quickly enough to meet people’s needs |
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| Resources that nature produces again and again |
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| Energy that comes from the sun |
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| Power produced by the wind |
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| Collection of water, such as a stream, puddle, or lake |
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| The air that surrounds Earth |
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| The process of changing from a gas to a liquid |
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| The process of changing from a liquid to a gas |
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| Water that collects underground in cracks and spaces in rock |
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| Water that falls to Earth’s surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail |
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| The flowing of water over the land from higher to lower ground |
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| The release of water vapor into the air from a plant’s leaves |
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| A large “bubble” of air that has about the same temperature and humidity throughout it |
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| The air that surrounds Earth |
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| The general weather of an area over a long period of time |
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| An imaginary line that circles Earth halfway between the North and South Poles |
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| Water that falls to Earth’s surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail |
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| Severe weather : Thunderstorm |
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| A storm with lightning, thunder, rain, and sometimes hail |
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| Severe weather : Hurricane |
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| A very large and violent tropical storm |
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| A dark funnel of strong winds that spiral upward |
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| The average speed of the particles in a substance |
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| The condition of the atmosphere at a place for a short period of time |
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| Moving air caused by the Sun’s uneven heating |
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| An imaginary line that passes from the North Pole to the South Pole through Earth’s center |
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| An imaginary line that circles Earth halfway between the North and South Poles |
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| The path that one object in space takes around another object in space |
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| One complete trip of a planet around the sun |
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| The spinning of a planet or moon on its axis |
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| Winter, spring, summer, and fall due to the tilt of the Earth on its axis |
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| A sun and all the objects that move around it |
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| A large object that orbits a star |
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| The force that pulls objects toward each other |
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| Amount of matter in an object or substance |
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| A measure of the pull of gravity on an object |
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| Used to find the weight of an object |
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| Used to find the mass of an object |
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| The air that surrounds earth |
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| A natural object that orbits a planet |
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| An object in space that produces its own heat and light |
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| A cool spot on the sun’s surface that occurs for a short time |
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| An eruption on the sun’s surface |
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| A stream of charged particles from the sun |
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| The smallest particle of a substance that has all the properties of that substance |
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| The material, or “stuff” that everything is made of |
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| A particle of matter made of two or more atoms joined tightly together |
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| A property that can be observed, measured, or changed without changing the substance itself |
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| A characteristic of a substance |
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| A state of matter in which the substance has a definite shape and a definite volume |
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| A state of matter in which the substance has a definite volume but takes the shape of its container |
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| A state of matter in which the substance takes both the shape and the volume of its container |
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| The temperature at which a substance changes from a liquid to a gas |
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| Measurement used in science for temperature |
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| The process of changing from a gas to a liquid |
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| The process of changing from a liquid to a gas |
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| The temperature at which a substance changes from a liquid to a solid |
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| The temperature at which a substance changes from a solid to a liquid |
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| The average speed of the particles in a substance |
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| The amount of matter in an object or substance |
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| The amount of space that an object or substance takes up |
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| The amount of mass in a known volume of an object or substance |
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| A form a solution with another substance |
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| A combination of two or more substances that do not form a new substance |
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| A characteristic of a substance |
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| A mixture with one substance spread out evenly in another substance that you cannot tell the two substances apart |
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| A measure of how much of one substance will dissolve in another substance |
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| The upward push of a liquid or gas on an object |
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| The energy of moving particles in a substance also called heat energy |
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| A material that does not let heat energy or electricity pass through it easily |
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| A material that allows heat energy or electricity to pass through it easily. |
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| The push or pull of an object |
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| The force between two surfaces rubbing against one another |
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| The force that pulls objects towards each other |
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| The change in position of an object |
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| Energy from matter in motion |
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| To move rapidly back and forth |
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| How loud or quiet a sound is |
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| How high or low a sound is |
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| Energy that illuminates objects |
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| Energy from the motion of molecules in matter |
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| The average speed of particles in a substance |
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| Energy from the flow of charged particles |
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| A property of matter; charge can be positive or negative |
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| A particle that is in the space around the nucleus of an atom and has a negative charge |
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| A form of energy that is produced when electrons move from one place to another place |
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| A complete pathway of conductors that electrons flow through |
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| A constant flow of electrons through a conductor |
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| Electrons do not have a path to flow through, light bulb will not light |
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| Electrons have a complete path to flow through, light bulb will light |
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| Materials that allow electricity to move through them easily |
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| Materials that resist (do not) the flow of electricity |
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| There is only one path for the current and a break in the circuit stops the current |
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| There are multiple pathways or branches. If there is a break in any branch, the current will still go through the other branches. |
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| A form of energy that travels in waves and can move through empty space where there is no air |
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| The bouncing back of light rays from a surface |
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| Passage of light through matter/objects |
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| Blocks light from going through such as metal and wood |
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| Light transmits through such as clear glass |
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| Light is scattered such as wax paper |
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| The bending of light rays as they move from one material into another material |
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| This shape bends light rays outward, thinner in the center and thicker at the edges |
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| This shape bends light inward, a lens that is thicker in the center and thinner at the edges |
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| A glass bar that separates white light into the colors of the rainbow |
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| A characteristic that is passed from parents to their offspring |
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| A behavior that an animal inherits from its parents also called instinct |
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| A behavior that an animal develops by observing other animals or by being taught |
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| New organisms that come from parent organisms |
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| A characteristic of an organism |
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| Animals whose bodies change dramatically during their life cycles go through complete metamorphosis. Example: egg, larva, pupa, adult. Insects that undergo complete metamorphosis: most insects, including moths, butterflies, beetles, wasps, flies, ants, and bees. |
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| A kind of growth where organisms keep the same body features as they grow larger |
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| The first stage in the life cycle of many organisms |
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| Some animals do not go through the full cycle of metamorphosis and only go through three stages of development: egg, nymph, adult. Incomplete metamorphosis |
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| The small, wormlike stage in the life cycle of some insects |
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| The stages of growth and development that an organism goes through in its lifetime |
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| The changes in form that some insects go through during their life cycle |
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| To shed skin, scales, feathers, or an exoskeleton, usually at a particular time of year or stage of growth and development |
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| New organisms that come from parent organisms |
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| The stage in the life cycle of some insects when the organism changes from a larva to an adult |
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| A structure or behavior that helps an organism survive in its surroundings |
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| What the structure does to help the organism to survive in its environment |
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| The shape, color or pattern of an animal that helps it blend in with its surroundings |
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| A deep sleeplike state when an animal’s body processes slow down |
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| The seasonal movement of animals from one place to another |
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| Means to look or act like another animal as means for protection |
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| Means to change body forms as the animal matures and grows older |
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| An animal that hunts, catches, and eats another animal |
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| An animal that is hunted, caught, and eaten by another animal |
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| An organism that makes its own food |
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| The process of making more organisms of the same kind |
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| A group of organisms of the same kind that can mate and produce offspring like themselves |
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| Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen Cycle |
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| The movement of carbon dioxide and oxygen between organisms and the air |
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| An organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and wastes |
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| A fuel that formed from the decayed remains of ancient plants and animals |
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| The process of using the energy in sunlight to make food from water and carbon dioxide |
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| Anything in the environment that can harm living things or damage natural resources |
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| An organism that makes its own food |
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| The process of breathing in air to get oxygen and breathing out waste gases |
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| An animal that eats other animals |
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| An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms |
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| An organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and wastes |
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| The path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem |
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| Overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystems |
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| An animal that eats only plants or plant products |
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| A substance that an organism needs in order to survive and grow |
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| An animal that eats both plants and animals |
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| An animal that hunts, catches, and eats another animal |
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| An animal that is hunted, caught, and eaten by another animal |
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| An organism that makes its own food |
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| A structure or behavior that helps an organism survive in its surroundings |
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| All the living and nonliving things that interact with each other in an environment |
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| The surroundings that an organism lives in |
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| The environment where an organism lives |
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| The role that an organism plays in its habitat |
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| A substance that an organism needs in order to survive and grow |
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| A group of organisms of the same kind that can mate and produce offspring like themselves |
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| The center of Earth made of solid metals; alsocalled inner core. |
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| Earth's outer layer made of solid rock |
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| Earth's layer below the crust made of melted rock. |
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| The study of Earth and the materials of which it is made, the structure of those materials and the forces acting upon them. |
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| The process of weathering and erosion that can be HELPful to the Earth's surface such as deposition of sediments or lava cooling from a volcano eruption adding new fertile soil. |
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| The process of weathering and erosion that can be HARMful to the Earth's surface such as slow or rapid changes from earthquakes, volcanos, mudslides and hurricanes. |
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| A shaking of earths crust caused by slabs moving against each other deep below the earths crust |
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| a mountain built up from hardened lava ,rocks , and ash that erupted out of earth |
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| The movement of weathered materials by water, wind .or ice |
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| The process of breaking down and wearing away rock. |
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