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- Experimental Group
- A set-up that is identical to the control group of an experiment in every way, except for a change in the variable you are testing.
- Exposure Time
- How long an Individual in exposed to a chemical.
- Extinct
- No longer found living on the Earth.
- Fault
- A break or crack in Earths surface along which movement occurs.
- fetal Alochol Syndrom
- illness that can affect the unborn child of a mother who consumes alochol while pregnant
- Field Study
- scientific study that takes place in a natural setting/.
- Findings
- that results of data from a given problem.
- Falgellum
- A long, thin whip like structure that extends from the cells of some organisms and is used for movement.
- Food chain
- a model that shows that flow of energy from one organism to the next in an ecosystem.
- Food Intolerance
- An inability to digest a food or food additive.
- Food preservatives
- Chemicals used to prevent foos spoilage casued by microorganisms
- Food web
- a model that shows the interconnected network of food chains within an ecosystem
- Fossils
- imprints or the remains of organisms that were once lived.
- Gas production
- usally a waste product from calluar respiration.
- Geologic event
- a series of events or organisms that exist over millions of years.
- Geologic Time Scale
- that timeline that organizes Earths history over the last 4.6 billion years.
- Glacier
- A moving mass of ice or snow on land.
- Gogi apparatus
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the organelle that modifies and packages proteins for specific uses in the cell
- Ground water
- water located below the Earths surface
- Group
- the vertical column
- Hazard
- Something that hold the potential of serious injuey or death to an organism.
- Heart Diseas
- any disease that affects the cardiovascular system.
- Hot spot
- an area of volcanic activity in the middle of a tectonic plate.
- Hydrosphere
- the portion of Earth that contains Water.
- Hydrothermal Vents
- Cracks in the ocean crust that release mineral-rich water that has been heated by the earths interior.
- Hypothesis
- a possible answer or tentative explanation to a scientific question. May be proven correct or incorrect.
- Ice core
- a long tube shaped sample of ice taken from a glacier that helps to give us data about the composition of that Earths atmosphere during long periods of time,
- Independent ariable
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- Independent Variable
- the variable the experiment is designed to text for.
- Index fossil
- the fossil or an organism that exsisted for a relativity short period of time.
- Individual susceptibility
- the change that given organism will acquire a disease of problem.
- inert
- unable to react chemical.
- Infectious disease
- infectious disease that are passed directly from one indiviual to another.
- Infrenece
- a logical guess based upon observations and prior knowledge.
- Interconnected
- the way in which different organisms are all related to others.
- Insulator
- a material that does not allow heat or electricity to flow through it easily
- Investigation
- a measureable way of looking at a situation or experiment in order to get both quanitiaiive and or/ qualitative data.
- Continental drift
- the process by which the continents split apart from a single landmass and moved across the globe.
- Contour Line
- a line on a topographic map that connects with the same elevation
- Crop Yield
- the amount of crops produced per acre or hectare
- control group
- a standard set-up which all variables are controlled and and to which the experimental results are compared.