Science+Vocablualry

//Vocabulary// __//Properties of Matter//__ 
 * //Model- a representation of a real thing or event. Models can be smaller than, larger than, or the same size as what they represent. //
 * //System- a collection of structures (parts), cycles, and processes that interact //
 *  //Waft - to carry along gently through the air//
 * //Cycle- the on going, never ending process of events//
 * //Process-the steps//
 * //Energy- the ability to do something//
 * //freezing point - 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit)//
 * //boiling point- 100 degrees Celsius (212 degrees Fahrenheit) //
 * //States of Matter- 3 states solid, liquid, and gas (plasma is the 4th state of matter)//
 * //Solid- molecules are jammed packed together and it has a definite shape; think ice//
 * //Liquid- molecules are scattered or have room to move and this takes the shape of its container; think water //

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//Gas- molecules are widely scattered and this also takes the shape of its container; think water vapor or steam//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//Melt-when solids turn to liquids due to heat being added//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//Evaporate- liquids turning to gas due to heat being added//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//Condensation-gas turning to liquids due to removing heat//
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Freeze-liquid turning to solids due to removing heat //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//Magnetism- an items ability to be attracted to a magnet//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//Magnetic Poles- the ends of a magnet where the magnetic force flows in and out//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//Magnetized- to become a magnet//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//Force- something that pushes, pulls, or moves objects//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//Repel- to push away//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//Atoms-tiny pieces that make up all materials//
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Magnetic Field- invisible shape of lines of force around a magnet //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//Physical state – solid, liquid, or gas//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//Density- the proportion of mass to volume//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//Buoyancy – to push a liquid against another object//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//Dissolve- particles have become smaller to the point of being unseen//
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Conduct- carry transmit energy //

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 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Solvent - is the liquid //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Solute- the solid that dissolves in the solvent //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Saturated Solution - solute dissolves in a solvent until no more will dissolve(additional material may sit at the bottom) //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Solubility - is the property that substances have dissolving in solvents //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Solution - is made of two parts the solvent and the solute //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Dilute - solutions with a low ratio of solid material to liquid (weak) //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Concentrated - solutions with a high ratio of solid material to liquid (strong) //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Concentration - is the ratio of two materials in a solution //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Mixture - two or more materials, uniformly distributed throughout one another //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//Crystal- (solid material comes out of a solution as crystals) it is a solid in which the molecules are packed very tightly //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//Chemical Reaction- the process that changes the relationships of the atoms in the reactants (new materials are formed as a result of chemical reactions)//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Suspension- mixture of two chemicals with the character that one does not rapidly settle out //<span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">

<span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">__//Energy//__ > //<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">FOSS definition: Solar Collector – a material used to capture solar energy in a water heater or other device //
 * //<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Light energy - form of energy that travels in waves, visible with the eye //
 * //<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Heat energy - form of energy created by the motion of molecules (also called thermal energy) //
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Solar energy - energy from the sun, contains heat and light //
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Heat transfer - transition of thermal energy from a heated item to a cooler item //
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Sun -a star around which Earth and other planets revolve that produces heat and light energy energy in the form of sunlight //
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Solar collector- device for extracting the energy from the sun into a more usable or storable form //
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Absorb-transition of thermal energy from a heated item to a cooler item (to take up, soak in, or capture) //
 * //<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Geothermal-heat that comes from within the Earth (used to heat buildings and produce electricity) //
 * //<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Mechanical energy - energy that is potential and kinetic combined in actions (lifting, pushing, bending) //
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Sound energy-energy that travels in waves and is created by a vibration, detected by the ear //

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//shadow- is the dark area created by an object that stops light//
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">reflect- to bounce back light from an object //
 * <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; msobidifontweight: bold;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">refract-to deflect light from a straight path //
 * <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; msobidifontweight: bold;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">green house effect-is the heating of a closed space when light energy enters, is transformed to heat, which is unable to disperse, resulting in heat buildup //
 * <span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; msobidifontweight: bold;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">seasons-four natural division of the year, fall, winter, spring, summer //


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//fossil fuel - nonrenewable fuel formed from decayed remains of plants and animals (coal, oil, natural gas)-a form of chemical energy//
 * // renewable - a resource which can be easily reproduced by nature //
 * // non-renewable- a resource which can not be easily reproduced by nature //
 * // fuel cell-an object that stores chemical energy that can //// be converted into other forms //
 * // atmosphere - the air that surrounds the earth made of many different gases //
 * // compass - a tool which uses the magnetic poles to find direction //
 * // thermometer - a tool used to measure temperature //
 * // hydro- having to do with water as in : //// --Hydroelectric-electricity produced by moving water //
 * // corona - shining outer layer around the edges of the sun //
 * // orientation - where an object is positioned //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">sound- form of energy produced by vibrating objects //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">vibration- act of vibrating (to move back and forth, to and fro) //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">pitch- how high or low a sound is //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">frequency - number of compressions that move past a point in a certain amount of time //

__<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//Changes Over Time// __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">fossil- the remains or traces of an organism that lived long ago //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">imprint- a mark made by pressing or stamping something on a surface //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">mold- a fossil that formed when an organism pressed into mud, leaving a shape that is hardened in rock //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">conglomerate- made up of parts from various sources or from various kinds //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">metamorphic- rock that formed when another kind of rock was squeezed and heated deep inside Earth's crust. ex. marble //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">sequence- the following of one thing after another in a regular or fixed order //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">sedimentary - rock that formed when sediments were pressed and segmented together. ex. limestone //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">ancient- very old //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">remains - what is left behind //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">igneous - rock that is formed from cooled magma or lava ex. granite //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">constructive- to build something new //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">destructive- to destroy or tear down //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">elevation- vertical distance, or height, above sea level //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">peak- the highest point of a mountain //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">glacier- a large mass or body of moving ice //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">valley- allow area between higher areas through which a river or stream often flows //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">model-a representation of an object or process //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">boundary-limit or border of an area or region //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">structure- something built by people, like a building //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">map- a drawing of an area usually as though you were looking straight down on it //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">cartographer- is a person who makes maps //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">grid- is a network of vertical and horizontal lines that from squares //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">symbol- a color shape or texture used to represent something else on a map such as building road or landform //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//key- is an explanation of symbols used on a map//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//drainage basin - a system of rivers and streams that drains an area like the Colorado Plateau//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//weathering- wearing away of earth materials by water, wind, or ice//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//erosion- the carrying away of earth's materials by water, wind, or ice//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//landform- a shape or feature of the earth's surface, like a delta or canyon//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//canyon- a v-shaped valley eroded by a river or stream//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//delta- a fan-shaped triangular deposit of earth materials at the mouth of the stream//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//plateau- a large, nearly level area that has been lifted above the surrounding area//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//deposition- process by which eroded earth materials settle out in another place//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//sediments- are eroded earth materials that have been deposited//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//basin- is a low area in which sediments are often deposited//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//channel- is the course or path the water takes in a stream or river//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//meander- a meander is a curve or loop in a channel//


 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">slope- is the angle or slant of a stream, channel, or land surface //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">alluvial fan- is a fan-shaped landform deposited at the end of a steep canyon where the slope becomes flatter (fans are usually found in arid regions like Death Valley) //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">flood- a very heavy flow of water, which is greater than the normal flow of water and goes over the streams normal channel //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">flash flood- rises and falls rapidly with little or no advance warning, usually as the result of very heavy rainfall over a relatively small area //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">levee- is an embankment along a stream that protects land from flooding (levees can be natural or constructed) //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">dam- is a construction or wall across a river that holds back the water flowing through the river, creating a reservior or lake //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">floodplain- is the area around a river that is covered by water flowing over the riverbank during a flood //


 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">contour line- a line on a topographic map that connects points of equal elevation //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">base- bottom of a mountain //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">contour interval- the difference in elevation between contour lines //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">elevation- vertical distance, or height, above sea level //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">peak- the highest point of a mountain //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">sea level- the average height of the ocean's surface, zero elevation //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">topographic map- uses contour lines to show the shape and elevation of the land's surface //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">profile- is a side view or a cross section of a landform such as a mountain //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">benchmark- is a surveyor's marker usually placed permanently in the ground at a known position and elevation //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">intermittent stream- stream has water flowing in it only during certain times of the year //
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">perennial stream- always has water flowing in it //

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">__//Natural World//__ <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;">
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//ridge- a narrow area of high land between two valleys//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//glacier- a large mass or body of moving ice//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//valley- a low area between higher areas through which a river or stream often flows//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//interpret- interpreting a map means to figure out the symbols, textures, colors, and patterns to put together an image of the land covered by the map//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//aerial photograph- is a photograph of the earth's surface taken from an airplane or space craft flying above the earth//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//scale- ratio between a measured distance on a map to the actual distance in the real world//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//surveyor- measures and marks the distance, elevation, position, and boundaries of land area//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//bar scale- is a ruler line on a topographic map that shows the scale//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//representative fraction- tells the scale of a map as a ratio between distance on a map to distance in the real world//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//rapids- are a part of the river channel where the water moves rapidly over obstacles, like large boulders//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//intermittent lake- contains water only during certain times of the year, such as the rainy season//
 * //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">lunar cycle- the 28 day period in which the moon’s orbit around the Earth causes it to reflect the sun in different phases //
 * //<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">crater- a bowl-shaped structure at the top of a volcano or on a planet or moon //
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">gravity-the force that pulls objects toward each other //
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">tilt- to lean, tip, or slant to one side //
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">axis- an imaginary line that passes from the North Pole to the South Pole through Earth’s center //
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">full moon- the phase of the moon when the side turned toward the earth is entirely lit //
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">half moon- the phase of the moon when one half of the face turned toward the Earth is lit- can be either side depending on whether it is waxing or waning. //
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">quarter moon- the phase of the moon when one quarter (one- fourth) of the face turned toward the Earth is lit. //
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">//<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">new moon- the phase of the moon when the side turned toward the earth is entirely dark //
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">rotation- the spinning of a planet or moon on its axis //
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">revolution- one complete trip of a planet around the sun //
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">orbit- the path that one object in space takes around another object in space //
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">waxing- the moon at any time after new moon and before full moon, so called because its illuminated area is increasing. //
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">waning- the moon at any time after full moon and before new moon (so called because its illuminated area is decreasing). //
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">ecosystem- all the living and nonliving things that interact with each other in an environment //
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">habitat- the environment where an organism lives //
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">pollution- anything in the environment that can harm living things or damage natural resources //
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">producer- an organism that makes its own food //
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">pollutant- a harmful substance added to Earth’s land, water, or air //
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">carnivore- an animal that eats other animals //
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">omnivore- an animal that eats both plants and animals //
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">herbivore- an animal that eats only plants or plant products //
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">scavenger- a meat-eating animal that feeds on the remains of dead animals //
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">food web- overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem //
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">food chain- the path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem. //
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">consumer- an organism that gets energy by eating other organisms. //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//aquarium- a container in which living aquatic animals and plants are kept//
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//terrarium- a container used for growing plants and small animals//
 * <span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">ecology- the study of how living and nonliving things interact //
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">life cycle- the stages of growth and development that an organism goes through in its lifetime. //
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-size: 90%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">photosynthesis- the process of using the energy in sunlight to make food from water and carbon dioxide. //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">terrestrial- organisms that live primarily on land //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//aquatic- organisms that live primarily in water//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">// niche- the role that an organism plays in its habitat. //
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">organism- a living thing //
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;">//<span style="font-size: 150%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Nitrogen- a colorless, odorless gas that makes up about four-fifths of the earth’s air //
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-size: 150%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-size: 150%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Carbon dioxide – oxygen cycle- the continuous movement of carbon dioxide and oxygen between organisms //
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-size: 150%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-size: 150%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Nitrogen cycle- the continuous movement of nitrogen between organisms and their surroundings //
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-size: 150%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"> <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Fertilizer- nitrogen containing substances used to make soil better for growing plants //
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Carbon Dioxide- a gas made of carbon and oxygen atoms that plants need for photosynthesis //
 * <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;">//<span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Oxygen- a colorless gas found in the air. Humans and animals need oxygen to breathe. Oxygen makes up 21 percent of earth’s atmosphere. //
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;">//<span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">respiration- the process of breathing air to get oxygen and breathing out waste gases //
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Decompose- to rot or decay // <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">
 * <span style="font-size: 80%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; msobookmark: OLE_LINK2;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> //<span style="font-size: 130%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Environment- the surroundings that an organism lives in //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">// biome- a very large area of land with a certain kind of climate and certain kinds of organisms living there //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">prairie- a large area of flat or rolling grassland with few or no trees //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">freshwater- to do with or living in water that does not contain salt //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">saltwater- to do with water that is very salty, such as that found in the oceans //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">conifer- a plant that produces seeds in cones //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">deciduous- trees that shed their leaves every year //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">forest- a large area thickly covered with trees and plants //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">rainforest- a dense, tropical forest where a lot of rain falls //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">desert- a biome that has very little rain and a few plants //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">tundra- a biome with cold temperatures and not much rain //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">trait- a characteristic of an organism //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">learned behavior- a behavior that an animal develops by observing other animals or by being taught //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">//<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">inherited trait- a characteristic that is passed from parents to their offspring //
 * //<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">adaptation- a structure or behavior that helps an organism survive in its surroundings //
 * //<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">vertebrate - an animal that has a backbone //
 * //<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">invertebrate- an animal that does not have a backbone //
 * //<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">survival - to continue to live or exist //
 * //<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">perish- to die or be destroyed //
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