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Cedarbrook PSSA Science

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Electronic communication
System for the transmission of information using electronic technology (e.g, digital cameras, cellular telephones, internet, television, fiber optics)
Biotechnology
The ways that humans apply biological concepts to produce products and provide services.
Biomedical Technology
The application of health care theories to develop methods, products, and tools to maintain or improve homeostasis.
Biological Diversity
The variety and complexity of species present and interacting in an ecosystem and the relative abundance of each.
Biotic
An environmental factor related to or produces by living organisms.
Desalinization
To remove salts and other chemicals from sea or saline water.
Closing the loop!
A link in the circular chain of recycling events that promotes the use of products made with recycled materials.
Engineering
The application of scientific, physical, mechanical and mathematical principles to design processes, products and structures that improve the quality of life.
Construction technology
The ways that humans build structures on sites.
Endangered species
A species that is in danger of extinction throughout all of a significant portion of its range.
Ecosystem
A community of living organisms and their interrelated physical and chemical environment.
Decomposer
An organism, often microscopic in size, that obtains nutrients by consuming dead organic matter, thereby making nutrients accessible to other organisms; examples include fungi, scavengers, rodents, and other animals.
Commodities
Economic good or products before they are processed and/or given a brand name, such as a product of agriculture.
Carbon chemistry
The science of the composition, structure, properties and reactions of carbon based matter, especially of atomic and molecular systems; sometimes referred to as organic chemistry.
Allele
Any of a set of possible forms of a gene.
Dichotomous
Divided or dividing into two parts or classifications.
Biomass conversion
The changing of organic matter that has been produces by photosynthesis into useful liquid, gas or fuel.
Biochemical conversion
The changing of organic matter into chemical forms.
Biomes
A community of living organisms of a single major ecological region.
Environment
The total of the surroundings (air, water, soil, vegetation, people, wildlife) influencing each living beings existence, including physical, biological and all other factors; the surroundings of a plant or animals including other plants or animals, climate, and location.
Embryology
The branch of biology dealing with the development of living things from fertilized egg to its developed state.
Composting
The process of mixing decaying leaves, manure and other nutritive matter to improve and fertilize soil.
Abiotic
A nonliving factor or element (e.g., light, water, heat, rock, energy, mineral)
Delineate
To trace the outline; to draw; to sketch; to depict or picture.
Consumer
1)Those organisms that obtain energy by feeding on other organisms and their remains. 2) A person buying goods or services for personal needs or to use in the productino of other goods for resale.
Acid deposition
Precipitation with a pH less than 5.6 that forms in the atmosphere when certain pollutants mix with water vapor)

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