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| Pointed tips, scissors, scalpel & knoves. Always point away from you |
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| Observations of any particular quantitative property are expressed as a specific quantity, referred to as a unit |
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| qualitative observation relies on reasons behind various aspects of behaviour. |
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| Amount of space an objkect take up |
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| Amount of mass an object has |
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| Amount of valume and object has |
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| Factor that changes becasue of the controlled varibales |
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| A varibale that is controlled so that it can't change |
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| When a thermometer is heated the mercury expands going up. |
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| When cooled the mercury contracts and goes down. |
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| Body temperature in Celsius |
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| body temperature = 37 degrees Celsius |
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1 kilometers = 1 000 meters
700KM = 700,000 meters |
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| 6.5 centimeters = how manyu meters |
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1 centimeters = 0.01 meters
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1 US gallons = 3785.4118 milliliters
45.8 X 3 785.41118 = 173,371.832 ML |
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| All living and non living things that interact in an area |
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| The place where an organisim lives and provides what it needs |
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| An organism that can make it's own food |
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| An organism that obtains energy feeding on other organisims |
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| An organism that breaks down large molecules from dead organisms into small molecules and returns important materials to the environment. |
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| A series of events in which one organisim eats another and obtains energy. |
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| A carnivor that hunts a kills other animals for food, and has adaptations that help it capture the animals it preys own. (Speed of a cheetah) |
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| An animal that a preditor feeds upon |
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| The first species to populate an area |
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| The changes that ocurr in an area where no ecosystem had existed |
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| The ability to do work or cause change such as moving an object some distance. |
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| Energy that an object has because of it's motion |
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| Energy that is stored and held in rediness. |
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| The product of force and distance when a force is used to move an object. |
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| The tendedncy of a moving object to continue in a straight line or of a stationary object to remain in place. |
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| An object at rest tends to stay at rest. An object in motion tends to stay in motion. |
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| The measurement of how somthjing changes speed is called acceleration. |
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| For every action there is an equal and oposite reaction. |
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| How fast something is traveling |
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| The velocity of an object is simply total speed in a particular direction. |
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| A measurment of how quickly something changes speed |
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| Gravitational potential energy |
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| Energy that depends on the weigh of something |
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| The energy of stressed or compressed objects. |
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| The energy of electrical moving charges |
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| The energy created by heat |
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| The potential energy stored in the nucleus of an atom. |
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| Energy produced by magnents |
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| The phase that plants go through to make their own food. |
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| The shape of the earths orbit around the sun is |
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| The earths orbit around the sun is |
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| When the earth spins around once |
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| When the earth completes one full orbit around the sun |
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| It helps load boxes on a truck |
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| The process by which wanter,ice,wind or gravity moves fragments of rock and soil |
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| small solid particals of rock or organisms moved by wind or water. |
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| Process by which sediments settles out of the water or wind that is carrying it and deposites it in a new area. |
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| Water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking in the ground |
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| A channel through which water is continuoisly flowing down hill |
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| A stream that flows into a larger stream. |
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| The land area from which a river and its tributaries collect water. |
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| A ridge of land that seperate one drainage basin or watershed from another |
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| A broad flat valley through which a river flows |
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| A looping curve formed in a river as it winds through it floodplanes. |
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