Notebook Science Flashcards Chapter 1
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- An electrolyte that increases the concentration hydrogen in a substance.
- Acid
- The force of the weight of air on everything else on earth.
- Air Pressure
- A tiny particle made of protons, neutrons, and electrons.
- Atom
- Joint that makes a swinging, rotating movement,like your wrist.
- Ball-And-Socket Joint
- an electrolyte that increases the concentration of hydroxide in a substance
- Base
- Trees that have leaves of all different shapes and sizes.
- broad leaves
- Coloring that lets animals blend in to their serroundings.
- Camouflage
- Soft bone that makes up your nose,ears and pads between backbones
- Cartilage
- controls the rate of a chemical reaction
- Catalyst
- Green material in plants used to make food
- Chlorophyll
- The tread-like parts of cells that hold genes
- Chromosomes
- A path along which electricity travels
- Circuit
- the system made up of the heart,arteries,veins, and capillaries
- Circulatory System
- water droplets collected on tiny specks of dust or salt particles in the air
- Clouds
- a machine made of two or more simple machines
- Compound Machine
- a summary of the procedure and results of an exeperiment
- Conclusion
- movement of heated material from one place to another, transferring energy
- Conduction
- a substance that carries electricity, such as metal
- conductor
- treeswith needle like leaves
- conifers
- animals that cannot make their own food and have to get it from other plants or animals
- consumer
- movement of heated material from one place to another, transfering energy
- convection
- system of measurement used in the U.S., including feet, gallons, and pounds
- conventional system
- measures how much mass fills a given amount of space
- density
- removing salt and other minerals from ocean water
- desalination
- a plant that has bundles of food tubes throughtout the stem
- dicot
- system that breaks down food collecting nutrients and getting rid of wastes
- digestive system
- a group of plants and animals interacting and living in the same community
- ecosystem
- animals that are in danger of becoming extinct
- endangered
- the system that develops and releases hormones into the blood
- endocrine system
- the ability to do work
- energy
- process of moving surface soil with wind, water, ice, or gravity
- erosion
- animals that are gone forever
- exticnt
- a joint that doesnt move
- fixed joint
- group of plants and animals that feed off one another
- food chain
- a series of interconnected food chains
- food web
- the push or pull that one object exerts on another
- force
- the force that keeps some things from moving or slows them down when they do move
- friction
- parts of the cell that determine characteristic living things inherit from their parents
- genes
- system used to divide earths history into meaningful parts
- geologic time scale
- several bones next to one another bend together in limited gliding motion
- gliding joint
- a force that draws objects toward itself
- gravity
- a long, heavy sleep that lasts all winter for some animals
- hibernation
- joint that moves in only one direction like a door hinge
- hinge joint
- amount of moisture in the air
- humidity
- all the water that exists on earth
- hydrosphere
- rocks that come from the magma of volcanic eruptions
- igneous rock
- a substance that does not carry electricity, such as rubber
- insulator
- the system made up of hair, skin, and nails
- integumentary system
- animals that do not have a backbone
- invertebrates
- features of the landscape, such as mountains, plains, plateaus, and deltas
- landforms
- when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are ing a direct line and the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow
- lunar eclipse
- the push and pull force of a magnet
- magnetism
- substance inside bones
- marrow
- anything that occupies space and has mass
- matter
- rocks that are formed from other kinds of rocks through pressure and heat under the earth
- metamorphic rocks
- system of measurement used around the world, including grams, liters, and meters
- metric system
- solid substances found in nature
- minerals
- classifies a mineral's hardness useing a simple scratch test
- Mohs Hardness Scale
- a plant that has bundles of food tubes arranged in a ring around the edge of the stem
- monocot
- the system of muscles that allow the body to move and hold the body together
- muscular system
- the system made up of the brain and spinal cord that send informatons throught the body
- nervous system
- objects at rest stay at rest and objects in motion stay in motion: acceleration of an object depends on its mass and the size and direction of the force
- Newton's Laws of Motion
- process of plants getting energy from sunlight
- photosynthesis
- a joint that makes a rotating motion
- pivot joint
- what you think will happen in an experiment, based on what you know about the relationship of the things you are testing
- prediction
- steps done in an experiment
- procedure
- plants that use photosynthesis to make their own food
- producers
- the feeling of blood pumped through the veins by the heart
- pulse
- reason of doing an experiment; what you want to learn from the experiment
- purpose
- a special type of wave that delivers heat and light, transferring energy
- radiation
- the system that allows living things to creat new life
- reproductive system
- the system made up of the lungs that takes in oxygen and pushes out carbon dioxide
- respiratory system
- outcome of each procedure in an experiment
- results
- rocks that are formed from hardened layers of sediment eroded off older rocks
- sedimentary rocks
- somthing that changes the direction of the force or the amount of force requires to move an object
- simple machine
- the system of bones in a body
- skeletal system
- a mixture of rock, and decaying vegetable and animal matter
- soil
- when the new Moon is between the Earth and The sun blocking the view of the Sun
- solar eclipse
- system made up of the Sun and the ten and their moons that orbit it
- solar system
- the form matter takes, either solid, liquid, or gas
- state of matter
- plates that move beneath the earths surface, causing earthquakes, eruptions, and continental movement
- tectonic plates
- the heat or coolness of the air around us
- temperature
- a seismic sea wave caused by tectonic plate movement
- tsunami
- system made up of the kidneys and bladder that rids the body of waste
- urinary system
- process of water moving from one place to another in the hydrosphere
- water cycle