vocab for taks
vocabulary terms you need to know for the taks test
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- Barometer
- any instrument that measures atmospheric pressure
- Buoyancy
- the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness
- Absorption
- the state or process of being absorbed
- Carnivorous
- flesh-eating: A dog is a carnivorous animal
- Apparatus
- having a particular function or intended for a specific use
- Burette
- a graduated glass tube, commonly having a stopcock at the bottom, used for accurately measuring or measuring out small quantities of liquid.
- Aerobic
- (of an organism or tissue) requiring the presence of air or free oxygen for life
- Cholesterol
- a sterol, C27H46O, that occurs in all animal tissues, esp. in the brain, spinal cord, and adipose tissue, functioning chiefly as a protective agent in the skin and myelin sheaths of nerve cells, a detoxifier in the bloodstream, and as a precursor of many steroids: deposits of cholesterol form in certain pathological conditions, as gallstones and atherosclerotic plaques
- Annual
- of, for, or pertaining to a year; yearly
- Anemometer
- any instrument for measuring the speed of wind
- Cardio
- a combining form meaning "heart," used in the formation of compound words: cardiogram
- Acceleration
- change/increase of speed or velocity
- Celia
- a female given name, form of Cecilia
- Accumulate
- to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees
- Adsorption
- The accumulation of gases, liquids, or solutes on the surface of a solid or liquid