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potassium
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K
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Limestones:
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Sedimentary rocks (CaCO3)
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luminous
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softly bright or radiant
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Energy
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the ability to do work
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Amount of land covers Earth
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25%
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Adiabatic cooling
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Free expansion causes cooling
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birds
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warm-blooded, feathers, egg, no milk, skeleton, lungs
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Stress
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a force causing pressure or tension
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fluorescent
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when minerals glow while being subjected to ultraviolet light
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Lithosphere
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Earths rigid outer shell including crusts and solids.
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mollecule that helps enzymes funtion in the body
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vitamin
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Crystal
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Orderly repeating patterns of atoms ionically combined or bonded together.
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solute
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the substance being dissolved in a solvent
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great red spot
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a giant, high-pressure continuous storm on jupiter
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Radio Telescope
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an instrument that collects and records radio waves traveling through space and can be used day or night under most weather conditions; provides information to map the universe and look for life on other planets
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clastics
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rock & mineral fragments produced by weathering & erosion; classified by particle size & shape
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club mosses
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1) look like tiny Christmas trees
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Prokaryotes
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They are members of the domeian bacteria this organism does not have a nucleus, the chemical instruction that direct the cell's activities.
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axon hillock
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cone-shaped area of the cell body
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humus
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Decayed organic material found in soil
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adhesion
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the molecular force of attraction in the area of contact between unlike bodies that acts to hold them together.
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competition
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the act of competing; rivalry for supremacy, a prize, etc.:
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desiccate
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to become thoroughly dried or dried up.
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malleable
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A term used to describe material that can be pounded into shapes
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Harry Hess
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who discovered sea floor spreading in the 1960's
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plate tectonics
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The theory that the lithosphere is made of plates that move and interact with each other at their boundaries.
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magma, solution
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crystals can occur from _____ or _________
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Insulator
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A substance that blocks the flow of heat or electricity
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alpine tundra
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occurs above the treeline on high montains
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hardware
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the equipment that makes up a computer system
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Saturated
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The maximum point of solute that can be dissolved
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inclined plane
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to deviate from the vertical or horizontal; slant.
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comet
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a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and gas that may form a tail that streams away from the sun.
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photosynthesis
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Process by which the energy of light is used to split water molecules and then to build glucose molecules from the products.
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reflection
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the bouncing of light off a surface; a way to gather and focus light
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Fault
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Is a break in the Earth's crust where slabs of crust slip past each other
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jupiter
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larest planet and the 5th from the sun and has faint rings, and 17 moons and srface as non stop stroms
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static friction
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the type of friction that prevents an object from moving (box)
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plasma
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the stae of matter that does not have a definite shape or volume and whose particles have broken
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enzyme
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a type of protein that speeds up a chemical reaction in a living thing
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bernoulli's principle
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as the velcity of a fluid increases, the less pressure is exerted.
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apparent magnitude
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a measure of the amount of light from a star that is received on earth.
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Two agents of chemical weathering is _________ and ______
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natural acids and oxygen
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What is porosity?
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the % of open space in a rock
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what effects the wear rate at joints?
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load, area, distance, and speed
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how did the planets form?
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solid planets are formed when dust in space clumps together, creating a large mass that continues to grow.
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Describe the graphic organizer of CYCLE CHARTS.
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Used to show a sequence of events that is continuous or cyclical. Like a flow chart a cycle diagram can help you understand the order of events.
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What are root hairs and what do they do?
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Root hairs grow out of the sides of the root and go into the soil to absorb water and dissolved minerals
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