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Science ABC's

Published on Dec 10, 2015

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AMPHIBIAN - a cold blooded animal that lives in water and breathes with gills when it is young; as an adult, it moves onto land and breathes with lungs.

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BACTERIA - part of a classification system that divides all living things into six kingdoms.

CONDENSATION - the process by which a gas changes into a liquid.

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DEW POINT - the temperature at which air with a given amount of water vapor will reach saturation.

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ENERGY - the ability to do work or to cause a change.

FLOWER - the reproductive structure of an angiosperm, containing male and female parts.

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GILL - a respiratory organ that filters oxygen dissolved in water.

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HURRICANE - a tropical low-pressure system with sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour or more.

INSECT - an arthropod with three body segments, six legs, two antennae, and compound eyes.

JET STREAM - a wind that flows in the upper troposphere from west to east over vast distances at great speeds.

KINGDOM - one of six large groupings of living things that have common characteristics. The kingdoms are Plantae, Animalia, Fungi, Protista, and Bacteria.

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LEVER - a solid bar that rotates, or turns around a fixed point; one of the six simple machines.

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MOLLUSK - an invertebrate animal with a soft body, a muscular foot, and a mantle. Many mollusks have a hard outer shell.

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NEWTON - unit of force.

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ORGANISM - an individual living thing, made up of one or many cells, that is capable of growing and reproducing.

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POLLEN - tiny multicellular grains that contain the undeveloped sperm cells of a plant.

REPTILE - a cold blooded vertebrate that has skin covered with scales or horny plates and has lungs.

SPORE - a single reproductive cell that can grow into a multicellular organism.

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TORNADO - a violently rotating column of air stretching from a cloud to the ground.

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ULTRA VIOLET RADIATION
- radiation of higher frequencies than visible light, which can cause sunburn and other types of damage.

VOLUME - an amount of three-dimensional space, often used to describe the space that an object takes up.

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WIND - the horizontal movement of air caused by differences in air pressure.

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X-AXIS - the principal or horizontal axis of a system of coordinates, points along which have a value of zero for all other coordinates.

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Y-AXIS - the secondary or vertical axis of a system of coordinates, points along which have a value of zero for all other coordinates.

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ZEBRA - an African wild horse with black-and-white stripes and an erect mane.