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Science Bowl Vocab 3
Sciencesaurus Voacbulary P-Z
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Science
5th Grade
12/03/2007

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Predator

Definition
An animal that hunts, catches, and eats other animal.
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Prey
Definition
An animal that is hunted, caught, and eaten by other animal.
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Producer
Definition
Organisms that make their own food.
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Protist
Definition
A small organism, ususally made of one cell that has some of the characteristics of a plant or animal.
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Pulley
Definition
A wheel with a rope or chain wrapped around it.
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Reflection
Definition
The bouncing back of light from a surface.
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Refraction
Definition
The bending of light as it moves from one material into another.
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Renewable Resource

Definition
Resources that nature can produce again and again, and never run out of it.
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Resource
Definition
All things supplied by nature that keep you alive and make you comftorable such as oil, solar energy, air, water, soil, minerals, plants, and animals.
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Scientific Method
Definition
An organized way to do an experiment or investigation.
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Sedimentary Rock
Definition
Bits of rock, shells, and the remains of plants and animals.
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Solar System
Definition
The sun, nine planets and their moons, comets, large space rocks, and small space rocks.
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Solid
Definition
Has a definate shape and definate volume.
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Solution
Definition
A mixture with one substance spread out evenly in another substance.
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Star
Definition
An object in space that produces its own heat and light.
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Sun
Definition
An average size star at the center of our solar system.
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System
Definition
A set of objects, organisms, or parts acting to form a whole.
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Tissue
Definition
A group of cells that work together to perform a certain function.
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Topography
Definition
The high and low features of an area of land such as the mountains and valleys.
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Universe
Definition
The total sum of all matter and energy that exists on Earth and space.
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Volcano
Definition

A mountain built up from hardened lava, rocks, and ash that erupted out of Earth.

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Volume
Definition
The amount of space that something takes up.
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