Mentor Training
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Transpiration -
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Heat is transferred by colliding molecules -
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Pollution -
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The process by which plants give off water vapor through their leaves -
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Community -
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Introduction of unwanted substances into the environment -
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Evaporation -
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Made up of all the populations in an area -
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Lines of longitude -
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The process by which water changes from a liquid to a gas -
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Lithosphere -
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Distances east and west of the prime meridian -
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Population -
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Earth's outermost solid layer of rock -
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Periodic table -
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All the individuals of one species that live in the same area at the same time -
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Buoyancy -
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Used to arrange elements into different categories -
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Succession -
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An object's ability to float -
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Mixture -
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The series of predictable changes that happen in a community over time -
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Potential energy -
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A physical combination of two or more substances -
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Axis -
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Energy that is stored in an object's position -
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Force -
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An imaginary line passes through the North and South geographic poles -
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Lines of Latitude -
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A push or a pull on an object that can affect its motion -
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Radiation -
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Distances north and south of the Equator -
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Kinetic energy -
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Heat is transferred by electromagnetic waves -
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Solution -
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Energy of motion -
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Lunar cycle -
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A mixture in which all of the substance is are evenly spread out -
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Tides -
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The 29.5 day period during which the moon passes through all its phases -
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Density -
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Cyclic changes in ocean level -
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Minerals -
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A measure of the amount of matter that occupies a given space -
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Producers -
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Naturally formed solids with a definite chemical formula -
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Rock cycle -
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Use light energy to make food; include green plants -
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Fossil -
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Model that shows how natural processes change rocks -
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Consumers -
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Any evidence of past life that is usually found in sedimentary rock -
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Weathering -
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Organisms that obtain energy by taking in food -
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Energy pyramid -
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The process during which rocks are broken into sediments -
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Food web -
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Shows the amount of energy flowing through an ecosystem -
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Conduction -
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Shows the feeding relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosystem