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Water molecule
Two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom
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What is solubility
The ability to dissolve many substances in it
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cohesion
The same molecules attracted to each other
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Evaporation
The process of a liquid change into a gas
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Solar radiation
Energy from the sun that helps drive the water cycle
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Transpiration
water is carried through plants and then evaporates
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Condensation
gas turn into liquid
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Precipitation
water released from clouds
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Gravity
The great force propelling the water cycle
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Infiltration
water that absorbs into soil
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Runoff
precipitation that did not get absorbed into soil and made its way to places where water collects
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Ground water
water that seeps into the ground supplying springs on the wells
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matter
has mass and takes up space
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Particles
Atoms and molecules
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heating a liquid
molecules move around fast
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heating a solid
molecules speed up and spread out
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Heating a gas
causes molecules to speed up and spread out rapidly
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Energy transfers from ———to———
Hot to cold
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kinetic energy
Energy that is moving
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independent variable
The part of the experiment that is changed on purpose to see the result
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dependent variable
The results of the experiment and what you observed
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Control
The part of the experiment that is set up for comparison
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Constants
A list of parts of a experiment that are kept the same to ensure a fair test
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potential energy
an object that has the potential energy to move
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Physical change
all molecules stay the same
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Chemical change
The bond of atoms is broken and rearranged
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photosynthesis
A chemical reaction that helps plants make a food using sunlight carbon dioxide and water and turns it into glucose and oxygen
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where does photosynthesis occur
in plant cells called chloroplasts
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What kind of energy transfer happens in photosynthesis
radiant energy to chemical energy
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What is cellular respiration
A chemical reaction that takes oxygen and glucose and creates carbon dioxide, water, and ATP energy
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where does Cellular respiration occur
in both plant and animal cells called mitochondria
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exothermic reaction
temperature goes down
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Endothermic reaction
temperature heats up
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Producers
make their own food
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Consumers
Eat other things for food
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Herbivores
Consumers that eat only plants
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Omnivores
Consumers that eat both plants and animals
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Carnivore
consumers that only eat meat
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Predator prey
Predator eats the prey
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competition
multiple animals hunting the same food
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parasitism
an interaction that harms one species but helps the other
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light year
A distant light travels in a year
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astronomical unit
The distance between the earth and the sun
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How long does it take for the earth to revolve around the sun
One year
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how long does it take for the moon to revolve around the sun
28 days
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which Way does earth rotate
West to east
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solstice
Summer and winter when sun reaches highest or lowest point in sky at noon
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equinox
autumn and spring day and night equal length
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Moon phases
changes in appearance of the moons shape during a month
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order of the moon phases
New moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third-quarter, waning crescent,
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Eclipse
when one object in space blocks another from view
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Spring tide
when sun and moon are in the same direction makes highest and lowest tides
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Neap tide
Gravity of sun and moon are opposite sides lower tides
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