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mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Abiotic</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An environmental factor not associated with or derived from living organisms.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:1'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Absorption </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>1-The taking up and storing of energy, such as radiation, light, or sound, without it being reflected or transmitted. 2- The movement of a substance, such as a liquid or solute, across a cell membrane by means of diffusion or osmosis.- The process by which one substance, such as a solid or liquid, takes up another substance, such as a liquid or gas, through minute pores or spaces between its molecules. A paper towel takes up water, and water takes up carbon dioxide, by absorption.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:2'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Acceleration</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Rate of change in velocity, usually expressed in meters per second per second; involves an increase or decrease in speed and/or a change in direction.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:3'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Acid</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A substance that increases the H+ concentration when added to a water solution Acids turn blue litmus paper red, have a pH of less than 7, and their aqueous solutions react with bases and certain metals to form salts.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:4'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Activation energy</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The least amount of energy required to start a particular chemical reaction.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:5'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Adaptation</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A characteristic of an organism that increases its chance of survival and reproduction in its environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:6'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An organic compound that is composed of adenosine and three phosphate groups. It serves as a source of energy for many metabolic processes. ATP releases energy when it is broken down into ADP and phosphate by hydrolysis during cell metabolism.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:7'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Aerobic</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Occurring in the presence of oxygen or requiring oxygen to live. In aerobic respiration, which is the process used by the cells of most organisms, the production of energy from glucose metabolism requires the presence of oxygen.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:8'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Alimentary canal</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The tubular passage that extends from mouth to anus and functions in digestion and absorption of food and elimination of residual waste.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:9'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Amino acid</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An organic molecule containing an amino group (-NH2), a carboxyl (-COOH) group, and a variable side chain (R group) that distinguishes the amino acid. Proteins are synthesized from amino acids. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:10'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Amphibian</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Amphibia, such as a frog or salamander, that characteristically hatches as an aquatic larva with gills. The larva then transforms into an adult, having moist skin, through which it can breathe, and air-breathing lungs. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:11'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Anaerobic </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Occurring in the absence of oxygen or not requiring oxygen to live. Anaerobic bacteria produce energy from food molecules without the presence of oxygen.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:12'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Anatomy</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The scientific study of the shape and structure of organisms and their parts.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:13'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Angiosperm</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of a large group of plants that produce flowers. They develop seeds from ovules contained in ovaries, and the seeds are enclosed by fruits, which develop from carpels.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:14'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Angular momentum</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A vector quantity that is a measure of the rotational momentum of a rotating body or system, that is equal in classical physics to the product of the angular velocity of the body or system and its moment of inertia with respect to the rotation axis, and that is directed along the rotation axis.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:15'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Antibiotic</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A substance, such as penicillin or streptomycin, produced by or derived from certain fungi, bacteria, and other organisms, or synthesized in laboratories, that can destroy or inhibit the growth of other microorganisms. Antibiotics are widely used in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:16'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Aquatic</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>In or on the water<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:17'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Arthropod</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of numerous invertebrate animals of the phylum Arthropoda, including the insects, crustaceans, arachnids, and myriapods, that are characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and a segmented body to which jointed appendages are articulated in pairs.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:18'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Asexual reproduction</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A form of reproduction in which new individuals are formed without the involvement of gametes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:19'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Asteroid</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of numerous small, often irregularly shaped rocky bodies that orbit the Sun primarily in the asteroid belt, a region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:20'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Atmosphere</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The layers of gas that surround Earth, other planets, or stars.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:21'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Atom</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The smallest unit of a chemical element that can still retain the properties of that element.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:22'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Attraction </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The electric or magnetic force exerted by oppositely charged particles, tending to draw or hold the particles together.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:23'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Axial skeleton</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The bones constituting the head and trunk of a vertebrate body.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:24'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Axis</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The imaginary line on which an object rotates (e.g., Earth s axis runs through Earth between the North Pole and the South Pole); an imaginary straight line that runs through a body; a reference to the line in a coordinate system or graph.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:25'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bacteria</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of a large group of one-celled organisms that lack a cell nucleus, reproduce by fission or by forming spores, and in some cases cause disease.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:26'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Barometric pressure</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The pressure of the atmosphere usually expressed in terms of the height of a column of mercury.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:27'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Base</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A substance that increases the OH concentration of a solution; a proton acceptor.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:28'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Big Bang Theory</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A cosmological theory holding that the universe originated approximately 20 billion years ago from the violent explosion of a very small agglomeration of matter of extremely high density and temperature.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:29'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Biogeochemical cycle</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The flow of chemical elements and compounds between living organisms and the physical environment. Chemicals absorbed or ingested by organisms are passed through the food chain and returned to the soil, air, and water by such mechanisms as respiration, excretion, and decomposition.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:30'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Biosphere</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The part of the earth and its atmosphere in which living organisms exist or that is capable of supporting life.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:31'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Biotechnology</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The manipulation (as through genetic engineering) of living organisms or their components to produce useful usually commercial products (as pest resistant crops, new bacterial strains, or novel pharmaceuticals).&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:32'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Biotic</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Factors in an environment relating to, caused by, or produced by living organisms.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:33'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Boil</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>To change from a liquid to a vapor by the application of heat.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:34'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bryophyte</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of a division (Bryophyta) of non-flowering and non-vascular plants comprising the mosses, liverworts, and hornworts, that undergo sexual reproduction via spores.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:35'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Carbohydrate</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of a group of organic compounds that includes sugars, starches, celluloses, and gums and serves as a major energy source in the diet of animals. These compounds are produced by photosynthetic plants and contain only carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen, usually in the ratio 1:2:1.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:36'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Cardiovascular system</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The bodily system consisting of the heart, blood vessels, and blood that circulates blood throughout the body, delivers nutrients and other essential materials to cells, and removes waste products.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:37'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Catalyst</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A substance that speeds up or slows down the rate of a reaction without being consumed or altered.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:38'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Cell</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The smallest structural unit of an organism that is capable of independent functioning, consisting of cytoplasm and various organelles, all surrounded by a semipermeable cell membrane, which in some cells, is surrounded by a cell wall<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:39'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Cerebellum </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The part of the vertebrate brain that is located below the cerebrum at the rear of the skull and that coordinates balance and muscle activity. In mammals, the cerebellum is made up of two connecting hemispheres that consist of a core of white matter surrounded by gray matter.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:40'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Cerebrum </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The largest part of the vertebrate brain, filling most of the skull and consisting of two cerebral hemispheres divided by a deep groove and joined by the corpus callosum, a transverse band of nerve fibers. The cerebrum processes complex sensory information and controls voluntary muscle activity. In humans it is the center of thought, learning, memory, language, and emotion.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:41'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Chemical change</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A reaction or a change in a substance produced by chemical means that results in producing a different chemical.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:42'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Chemiosmotic</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Relating to or being a theory that seeks to explain the mechanism of ATP formation in oxidative phosphorylation by mitochondria and chloroplasts without recourse to the formation of high-energy intermediates by postulating the formation of an energy gradient of hydrogen ions across the organelle membranes that results in the reversible movement of hydrogen ions to the outside and is generated by electron transport or the activity of electron carriers.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:43'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Chloroplast</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A plastid in most cells of most plants that contains chlorophylls and carotenoid pigments and produces glucose through photosynthesis.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:44'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Chromosome</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A structure in living cells that consists of a single molecule of DNA bonded to various proteins and that carries the genes determining heredity.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:45'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Circuit</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An interconnection of electrical elements forming a complete path for the flow of current.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:46'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Circulatory system</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The bodily system consisting of the heart, blood vessels, and blood that circulates blood throughout the body, delivers nutrients and other essential materials to cells, and removes waste products.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:47'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Clone</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>To produce genetic material or produce or grow a cell, group of cells, or organism from a single original cell.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:48'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Coagulation</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The process of changing from a liquid to a gel or solid state by a series of chemical reactions, especially the process that results in the formation of a blood clot.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:49'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Codominant</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Relating to two alleles of a gene pair in a heterozygote that are both fully expressed.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:50'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Comet</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A celestial body that appears as a fuzzy head usually surrounding a bright nucleus, that has a usually highly eccentric orbit, that consists primarily of ice and dust, and that often develops one or more long tails when near the sun.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:51'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Compound</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A substance made up of at least two different elements held together by chemical bonds that can only be broken down into elements by chemical processes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:52'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Concentration</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The relative amount of a particular substance, a solute, or mixture.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:53'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Condensation</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The process of changing from a gas (i.e., water vapor) to a liquid (i.e., dew); the act of making more dense or compact.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:54'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Conduction</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The transmission of heat through a medium and without the motion of the medium.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:55'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Conductivity</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The ability or power to conduct or transmit heat, electricity, or sound.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:56'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Conductor</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A material or an object that conducts heat, electricity, light, or sound.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:57'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Connective tissue</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Tissue that connects, supports, binds, or encloses the structures of the body. Connective tissues are made up of cells embedded in an extracellular matrix and include bones, cartilage, mucous membranes, fat, and blood.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:58'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Conservation of Mass</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The principle that mass cannot be created or destroyed; also conservation of matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:59'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Consumer</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An organism that feeds on other organisms for food.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:60'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Convection</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Heat transfer in a gas or liquid by the circulation of currents from one region to another.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:61'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Current </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The amount of electric charge flowing past a specified circuit point per unit time.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:62'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Cytoplasm</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The material that surrounds organelles and inside the cell membrane.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:63'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Decomposer </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any organism that feeds or obtains nutrients by breaking down organic matter from dead organisms.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:64'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Deforestation</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The cutting down and removal of all or most of the trees in a forested area.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:65'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Delta</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A usually triangular mass of sediment, especially silt and sand, deposited at the mouth of a river. Deltas form when a river flows into a body of standing water, such as a sea or lake, and deposits large quantities of sediment.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:66'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Density</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Concentration of matter of an object; number of individuals in the same species that live in a given area; the mass per unit volume.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:67'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dependent variable</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Factor being measured or observed in an experiment.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:68'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Deposition</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The process by which sediment is carried by forces (e.g., wind, rain, or water currents) and left in a certain area.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:69'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Desertification</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The transformation of arable or habitable land to desert, as by a change in climate or destructive land use.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:70'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Digestive system</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The alimentary canal and digestive glands regarded as an integrated system responsible for the ingestion, digestion, and absorption of food.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:71'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Diploid</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Having two sets of chromosomes or double the number of haploid chromosomes in the germ cell.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:72'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Disaccharide</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of a class of sugars, including lactose and sucrose, that are composed of two monosaccharides.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:73'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dissolve</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>To cause to pass into solution.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:74'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Diversity</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The different species in a given area or specific period of time.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:75'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>DNA</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Deoxyribonucleic acid; a nucleic acid that is genetic material; present in all organisms.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:76'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dominance</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Tendency of certain (dominant) alleles to mask the expression of their corresponding (recessive) alleles.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:77'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Dune</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A hill or ridge of sand piled up by the wind.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:78'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Earthquake</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The shaking of the ground caused by a sudden release of energy in Earth s crust.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:79'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Eclipse</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The partial or total blocking of light of one celestial object by another. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:80'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Electric field</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A region associated with a distribution of electric charge or a varying magnetic field in which forces due to that charge or field act upon other electric charges.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:81'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Electric potential</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A measure of the work required by an electric field to move electric charges.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:82'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Electricity</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The physical phenomena arising from the behavior of electrons and protons that is caused by the attraction of particles with opposite charges and the repulsion of particles with the same charge.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:83'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Electromagnetic force</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The fundamental force that is associated with electric and magnetic fields and is responsible for atomic structure, chemical reactions, the attractive and repulsive forces associated with electrical charge and magnetism, and all other electromagnetic phenomena.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:84'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Electromagnetic radiation</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The emission and propagation of the entire range of the electromagnetic spectrum, including: gamma rays, x-rays, ultraviolet radiation, visible light, microwaves, and radio waves.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:85'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Electromagnetic spectrum</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The entire range of electromagnetic radiation. At one end of the spectrum are gamma rays, which have the shortest wavelengths and high frequencies. At the other end are radio waves, which have the longest wavelengths and low frequencies. Visible light is near the center of the spectrum.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:86'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Electron</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A stable elementary particle in the lepton family having a mass at rest of 9.107 × 10^-28 grams and an electric charge of approximately -1.602 × 10^-19 coulombs. Electrons orbit about the positively charged nuclei of atoms in distinct orbitals of different energy levels, called shells.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:87'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Electrophoresis</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The migration of electrically charged molecules through a fluid or gel under the influence of an electric field. Electrophoresis is used especially to separate combinations of compounds, such as fragments of DNA, for the purpose of studying their components. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:88'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Embryology</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The branch of biology that deals with the formation, early growth, and development of living organisms.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:89'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Endocrine</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Of or relating to endocrine glands or the hormones secreted by them.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:90'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Endonuclease</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of a group of enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of bonds between nucleic acids in the interior of a DNA or RNA molecule.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:91'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Endosymbiosis</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Symbiosis in which a symbiont dwells within the body of its symbiotic partner.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:92'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Endothermic reaction</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Relating to a chemical reaction that absorbs heat.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:93'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Energy</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The capacity to do work. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:94'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Entropy</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A measure of the unavailable energy in a closed thermodynamic system that is also usually considered to be a measure of the system's disorder, that is a property of the system's state, and that varies directly with any reversible change in heat in the system and inversely with the temperature of the system.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:95'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Environment</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The sum of conditions affecting an organism, including all living and nonliving things in an area, such as plants, animals, water, soil, weather, landforms, and air.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:96'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Enzyme</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of numerous proteins produced in living cells that accelerate or catalyze chemical reactions.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:97'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Epithelial tissue</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Membranous tissue covering internal organs and other internal surfaces of the body.&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:98'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Equator </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An imaginary circle around Earth s surface located between the poles and a plane perpendicular to its axis of rotation that divides it into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:99'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Erosion</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The wearing away of Earth s surface by the breakdown and transportation of rock and soil.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:100'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Eukaryote</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An organism whose cells contain a nucleus surrounded by a membrane and containing DNA bound together by proteins (histones) into chromosomes.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:101'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Evaporation</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The process by which a liquid is converted to its vapor phase by heating the liquid.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:102'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Evolution </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A theory that the various types of species arise from pre-existing species and that distinguishable characteristics are due to modifications through successive generations.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:103'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Exocrine</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Producing, being, or relating to a secretion that is released outside its source.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:104'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Exoskeleton</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A hard outer structure, such as the shell of an insect or crustacean, that provides protection and/or support for an organism. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:105'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Exothermic reaction</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A chemical reaction that releases heat.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:106'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Experiment</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A procedure that is carried out and repeated under controlled conditions in order to discover, demonstrate, or test a hypothesis.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:107'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fatty acid</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of a large group of organic acids, especially those found in animal and vegetable fats and oils. Fatty acids are mainly composed of long chains of hydrocarbons ending in a carboxyl group. A fatty acid is saturated when the bonds between carbon atoms are all single bonds. It is unsaturated when any of these bonds is a double bond.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:108'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fertilization</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The act or process of initiating biological reproduction by insemination or pollination.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:109'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fission </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The process by which an atomic nucleus splits into two or more large fragments of comparable mass, simultaneously producing additional neutrons and vast amounts of energy; or, a process by which single-cell organisms reproduce asexually.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:110'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Food chain</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Transfer of energy through various stages as a result of feeding patterns of organisms.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:111'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Foramen</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An opening or short passage, especially in the body.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:112'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Force</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A vector quantity that exists between two objects and, when unbalanced by another force, causes changes in velocity of objects in the direction of its application;&nbsp;a push or pull. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:113'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Forensic</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Relating to the use of science or technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:114'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fossa</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A small cavity or depression, as in a bone.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:115'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fossil</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A whole or part of an organism that has been preserved in sedimentary rock.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:116'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Frame of reference</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A set of coordinate axes in terms of which position or movement may be specified or with reference to which physical laws may be mathematically stated.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:117'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Freeze</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>To pass from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat from the substance/system.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:118'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Frequency</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The number of cycles or waves per unit time.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:119'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fungus</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A kingdom of eukaryotic organisms that reproduce by spores and have cell walls that contain chitin, examples include the mushrooms, molds, yeasts, and mildews.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:120'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Fusion </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The process by which two lighter atomic nuclei combine at extremely high temperatures to form a heavier nucleus and release vast amounts of energy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:121'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Galaxy</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A large collection of stars, gases, and dust that are part of the universe (e.g., the Milky Way galaxy) bound together by gravitational forces.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:122'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Gamete</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A reproductive cell having the haploid number of chromosomes, especially a mature sperm or egg capable of fusing with a gamete of the opposite sex to produce the fertilized egg.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:123'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Gas</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>One of the fundamental states of matter in which the molecules do not have a fixed volume or shape.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:124'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Genetic</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Affecting or determined by genes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:125'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Genotype</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The genetic information contained in a cell, an organism, or an individual.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:126'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Geocentric</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Relating to a model of the solar system or universe having the Earth as the center.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:127'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Geosphere</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:128'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Germination</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The beginning of growth, as of a seed, spore, or bud. The germination of most seeds and spores occurs in response to warmth and water.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:129'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Glacier</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A huge mass of ice slowly flowing over a land mass, formed from compacted snow in an area where snow accumulation exceeds melting and sublimation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:130'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Gravity</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The force of attraction between any two objects. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:131'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Gymnosperm</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A plant, such as a cycad or conifer, whose seeds are not enclosed within an ovary.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:132'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Habitat</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:133'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Haploid</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Having a single set of each chromosome in a cell or cell nucleus. In most animals, only the gametes (reproductive cells) are haploid.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:134'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Heat</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Energy that transfers between substances because of a temperature difference between the substances; the transfer of energy is always from the warmer substance to the cooler substance <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:135'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Heliocentric</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Relating to a model of the solar system or universe having the Sun as the center.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:136'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hemostasis</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The stoppage of blood flow through a blood vessel or body part.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:137'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Heredity</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The passage of biological traits or characteristics from parents to offspring through the inheritance of genes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:138'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Histology</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The scientific study of the microscopic structure of organism tissues.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:139'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Homeostasis</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The tendency of an organism or cell to regulate its internal conditions, such as the chemical composition of its body fluids, so as to maintain health and functioning, regardless of outside conditions.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:140'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hominid</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A group of primates of the family Hominidae, which includes modern humans. &nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:141'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hormone</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A substance, usually a peptide or steroid, produced by one tissue and conveyed by the bloodstream to another to affect physiological activity, such as growth or metabolism.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:142'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Humidity</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, usually expressed as either absolute humidity or relative humidity. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:143'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hydrosphere</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>All of the Earth's water, including surface water (water in oceans, lakes, and rivers), groundwater (water in soil and beneath the Earth's surface), snowcover, ice, and water in the atmosphere, including water vapor.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:144'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hypertension</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Abnormally high blood pressure and especially arterial blood pressure.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:145'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hypothalamus</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The part of the brain that lies below the thalamus, forming the major portion of the ventral region of the diencephalon and functioning to regulate bodily temperature, certain metabolic processes, and other autonomic activities.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:146'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Hypothesis </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A tentative explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:147'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Igneous </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A type of rock that forms from molten or partly molten material that cools and hardens.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:148'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Immune system</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The body system that protects the organism by distinguishing foreign tissue and neutralizing potentially pathogenic organisms or substances. The immune system includes organs such as the skin and mucous membranes, which provide an external barrier to infection, cells involved in the immune response, such as lymphocytes, and cell products such as lymphokines.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:149'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Independent variable</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The factor that is changed in an experiment in order to study changes in the dependent variable.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:150'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Inference </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:151'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Infrared </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Relating to the invisible part of the electromagnetic spectrum with wavelengths longer than those of visible red light but shorter than those of microwaves.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:152'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Insulator</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A material or an object that does not easily allow heat, electricity, light, or sound to pass through it. Air, cloth and rubber are good electrical insulators; feathers and wool make good thermal insulators.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:153'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Invertebrate</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An animal that has no backbone or spinal column and therefore does not belong to the subphylum Vertebrata of the phylum Chordata. Most animals are invertebrates. Corals, insects, worms, jellyfish, starfish, and snails are examples of invertebrates.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:154'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Investigation </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A systematic process that uses various types of data and logic and reasoning to better understand something or answer a question.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:155'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Kinetic energy</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The energy possessed by a body because of its motion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:156'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Latitude</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A measure of relative position north or south on the Earth's surface, measured in degrees from the equator, which has a latitude of 0°, with the poles having a latitude of 90° north and south.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:157'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Law </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A statement that describes invariable relationships among phenomena under a specified set of conditions.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:158'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Life cycle</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The entire sequence of events in an organism s growth, development, and reproduction.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:159'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Life science</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of several branches of science, such as biology, medicine, and ecology, that study the structural and functional organization of living organisms and their relationships to each other and the environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:160'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ligation</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Binding. In genetics, refers to binding fragments of DNA together.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:161'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Light</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Electromagnetic radiation that lies within the visible range.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:162'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Liquid</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:163'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Lithosphere</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The outer part of the solid earth composed of rock essentially like that exposed at the surface, consisting of the crust and outermost layer of the mantle, and usually considered to be about 60 miles (100 kilometers) in thickness.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:164'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Lunar eclipse</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An eclipse in which the full moon passes partially or wholly through the umbra of the earth's shadow.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:165'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Lymphatic system</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A network of vessels, tissues, and organs in vertebrate animals that helps the body regulate fluid balance and fight infection. The vessels of the lymphatic system drain excess fluid, called lymph, from the tissues and return it to the circulating blood.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:166'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Magnet</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An object that produces a magnetic field and that has the property, either natural or induced, of attracting iron or steel.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:167'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Magnetic</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Having the property of attracting iron and certain other materials by virtue of a field of force.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:168'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Magnetic field</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The region where magnetic force exists around magnets or electric currents.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:169'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Magnetic force</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The force exerted between magnetic poles, producing magnetization.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:170'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Mammal</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of various warm-blooded vertebrate animals of the class Mammalia, including humans, characterized by a covering of hair on the skin and, in the female, milk-producing mammary glands for nourishing the young. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:171'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Mass</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The amount of matter an object contains.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:172'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Matter</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Substance that possesses inertia and occupies space, of which all objects are constituted.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:173'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Medulla</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The central portion of an anatomical structure, such as the adrenal gland or the kidney.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:174'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Meiosis</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The process of nuclear division in cells during which the number of chromosomes is reduced by half.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:175'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Melt</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>To be changed from a solid to a liquid state especially by the application of heat.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:176'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Membrane</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A thin layer of tissue that surrounds or lines a cell, a group of cells, or a cavity; any barrier separating two fluids.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:177'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Meninx </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A membrane, especially one of the three membranes enclosing the brain and spinal cord in vertebrates.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:178'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Metal</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of a category of electropositive elements that usually have a shiny surface, are generally good conductors of heat and electricity, and can be melted or fused, hammered into thin sheets, or drawn into wires.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:179'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Metamorphic </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A type of rock that forms from existing rock because of extreme changes caused by heat, pressure, or chemical environments.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:180'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Metamorphosis</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Change in the form and often the habits of an animal during its development after birth or hatching. The transformation of a maggot into an adult fly and of a tadpole into an adult frog are examples of metamorphosis.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:181'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Microscope</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An instrument with lenses and light that is used to observe objects too small to be visible with only the eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:182'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Microwave</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An electromagnetic wave with a wavelength between that of infrared and short waves (one millimeter to one meter).&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:183'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Midbrain</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The middle part of the vertebrate brain. In most animals except mammals, the midbrain processes sensory information. In mammals, it serves primarily to connect the forebrain with the hindbrain.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:184'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Milky Way Galaxy</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The galaxy of which the sun and the solar system are a part and which contains the myriads of stars that create the light of the Milky Way.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:185'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Mineral</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A naturally occurring, homogeneous inorganic solid substance having a definite chemical composition and characteristic crystalline structure, color, and hardness.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:186'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Mitochondrion</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A spherical or elongated organelle in the cytoplasm of nearly all eukaryotic cells that uses enzymes and membranes to make chemical energy available to the cell to make food to usable energy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:187'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Mitosis</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A process of nuclear division in eukaryotic cells during which the nucleus of a cell divides into two nuclei, each with the same number of chromosomes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:188'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Model </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A systematic description of an object or phenomenon that shares important characteristics with the object or phenomenon. Scientific models can be material, visual, mathematical, or computational and are often used in the construction of scientific theories.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:189'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Mole </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The amount of a substance that contains as many atoms, molecules, ions, or other elementary units as the number of atoms in 0.012 kilogram of carbon 12. The number is 6.0225 × 10^23, Avogadro's number.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:190'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Molecule</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The smallest unit of matter of a substance that retains all the physical and chemical properties of that substance; consists of a single atom or a group of atoms bonded together.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:191'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Momentum</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A vector quantity that is the product of an object s mass and velocity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:192'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Monosaccharide</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of a class of carbohydrates that cannot be broken down to simpler sugars by hydrolysis and that constitute the building blocks of oligosaccharides and polysaccharides.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:193'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Moon</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A natural satellite that revolves around a planet.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:194'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Motion</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The act or process of changing position and/or direction.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:195'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Mutation</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A change in genetic sequence.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:196'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Natural resource</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Something, such as a forest, a mineral deposit, or fresh water, that is found in nature and is necessary or useful to humans.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:197'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Natural selection</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The theory stating every organism displays slight variations from related organisms, and these variations make an organism more or less suited for survival and reproduction in specific habitats. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:198'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Nervous system</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The system of cells, tissues, and organs that regulates the body's responses to internal and external stimuli. In vertebrates it consists of the brain, spinal cord, nerves, ganglia, and parts of the receptor and effector organs.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:199'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Neutron</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A subatomic particle having zero charge, found in the nucleus of an atom.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:200'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Nonrenewable resource</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A resource that can only be replenished over millions of years.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:201'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Nuclear reaction</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A process, such as fission, fusion, or radioactive decay, in which the structure of an atomic nucleus is altered through release of energy or mass or by being broken apart.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:202'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Nucleus</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The center region of an atom where protons and neutrons are located; also a cell structure that contains the cell genetic material of the cell.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:203'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Objectivity </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:204'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Observation </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>What one has observed using senses or instruments. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:205'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Offspring</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The progeny or descendants of an animal or plant considered as a group.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:206'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Orbit</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A path described by one body in its revolution about another (as by the earth about the sun or by an electron about an atomic nucleus).&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:207'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Organ</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A structure containing different tissues that are organized to carry out a specific function of the body (e.g., heart, lungs, brain, etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:208'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Organelle</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A differentiated structure within a cell, such as a mitochondrion, vacuole, or chloroplast, that performs a specific function.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:209'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Organism</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An individual form of life of one or more cells that maintains various vital processes necessary for life.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:210'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Parasite</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An organism that grows, feeds, and is sheltered on or in a different organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:211'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Parasympathetic nervous system</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The part of the autonomic nervous system originating in the brain stem and the lower part of the spinal cord that, in general, inhibits or opposes the physiological effects of the sympathetic nervous system, as in tending to stimulate digestive secretions, slow the heart, constrict the pupils, and dilate blood vessels.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:212'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Periodic table</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A tabular arrangement of the elements according to their atomic numbers so that elements with similar properties are in the same column.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:213'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>pH</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:214'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Phenotype</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The observable characteristics of an organism resulting from the interaction of its genetic makeup and its environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:215'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Phospholipid</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of various phosphorus-containing lipids, such as lecithin, that are composed mainly of fatty acids, a phosphate group, and a simple organic molecule such as glycerol.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:216'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Photosynthesis</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A chemical process by which plants use light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates (sugars).<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:217'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Physical change </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A reaction; a change in matter from one form to another, without forming new substances.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:218'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Physical science</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of several branches of science, such as physics, chemistry, and astronomy, that study the nature and properties of energy and nonliving matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:219'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Physiology</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The scientific study of an organism's vital functions, including growth, development, reproduction, the absorption and processing of nutrients, the synthesis and distribution of proteins and other organic molecules, and the functioning of different tissues, organs, and other anatomic structures.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:220'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Planet</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A large body in space that orbits a star and does not produce light of its own.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:221'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Plasma </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The pale yellow or gray-yellow, protein-containing fluid portion of the blood in which the blood cells and platelets are normally suspended.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:222'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Plate tectonics</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Theory of global dynamics in which Earth s crust is divided into a smaller number of large, rigid plates whose movements cause seismic activity along their borders.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:223'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Pole</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Either of the points at which the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface; the North Pole or South Pole.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:224'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Pollen</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Powdery grains that contain the male reproductive cells of seed plants.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:225'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Pollination</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The process by which plant pollen is transferred from the male reproductive organs to the female reproductive organs to form seeds. In flowering plants, pollen is transferred from the anther to the stigma by vectors such as the wind or insects.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:226'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Pollution</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any alteration of the natural environment producing a condition harmful to living organisms; may occur naturally or as a result of human activities.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:227'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Polygenic</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of a group of nonallelic genes that collectively control the inheritance of a quantitative character or modify the expression of a qualitative character.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:228'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Polymorphism</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The existence of two or more, usually discrete, different forms in an adult organism of the same species in the same habitat at the same time. In bees, the presence of queen, worker, and drone is an example of polymorphism. Differences between the sexes and between breeds of domesticated animals are not considered examples of polymorphism.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:229'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Polysaccharide</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of a class of carbohydrates, such as starch and cellulose, consisting of a number of monosaccharides joined by glycosidic bonds.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:230'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Pons</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A thick band of nerve fibers in the brainstem of humans and other mammals that links the brainstem to the cerebellum and upper portions of the brain. It is important in the reflex control of involuntary processes, including respiration and circulation. All neural information transmitted between the spinal cord and the brain passes through the pons.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:231'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Potential energy</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Energy stored in a physical system due to the object s configuration and position.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:232'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Power</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The rate at which work is done, expressed as the amount of work per unit time and commonly measured in units such as the watt and horsepower.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:233'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Precipitation</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>In meteorology, a form of water, such as rain, snow, or sleet that condenses from the atmosphere, becomes too heavy to remain suspended, and falls to the Earth's surface.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:234'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Producer </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An organism, usually a plant or bacterium, that produces organic compounds from simple inorganic molecules and energy (typically light energy) from the environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:235'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Prokaryote</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>One-celled organisms of the kingdom Monera (or Prokaryota) that are the most primitive and ancient known forms of life.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:236'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Proton</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A subatomic particle having a positive charge and which is found in the nucleus of an atom.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:237'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Pseudoscientific</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A theory, methodology, or practice that is considered to be without scientific foundation.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:238'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Pteridophyte</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Vascular plants that reproduce by means of spores rather than by seeds, including the ferns and related plants, such as club mosses and horsetails.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:239'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Pulmonary circulation</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The passage of blood from the right side of the heart through arteries to the lungs where it picks up oxygen and is returned to the left side of the heart by veins.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:240'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Radiant energy</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Energy in the form of waves, especially electromagnetic waves. Radio waves, x-rays, and visible light are all forms of radiant energy.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:241'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Radiation</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Emission of energy in the form of rays or waves.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:242'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Radioactive dating</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Measurement of the amount of radioactive material (usually carbon 14) that an object contains; can be used to estimate the age of the object.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:243'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Radioactivity</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The property possessed by some elements (as uranium) or isotopes (as carbon 14) of spontaneously emitting energetic particles (as electrons or alpha particles) by the disintegration of their atomic.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:244'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Rate of reaction </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The speed at which reactants are consumed and products are produced in a given reaction.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:245'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Recessive</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An allele for a trait that will be masked unless the organism is homozygous for this trait.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:246'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Recycling</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The collection and often reprocessing of discarded materials for reuse.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:247'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Reflection </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The bouncing off or turning back of light, sound, or heat from a surface.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:248'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Reflex arc</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The neural path of a reflex.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:249'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Refraction </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A change in the direction of a wave that occurs as it passes from one medium to another of different density.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:250'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Relativity (general theory of)</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The geometric theory of gravitation developed by Albert Einstein, incorporating and extending the theory of special relativity to accelerated frames of reference and introducing the principle that gravitational and inertial forces are equivalent.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:251'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Relativity (special theory of)</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The physical theory of space and time developed by Albert Einstein, based on the postulates that all the laws of physics are equally valid in all frames of reference moving at a uniform velocity and that the speed of light from a uniformly moving source is always the same, regardless of how fast or slow the source or its observer is moving. The theory has as consequences the relativistic mass increase of rapidly moving objects, the Lorentz-Fitzgerald contraction, time dilatation, and the principle of mass-energy equivalence.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:252'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Renewable resource</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A resource that is replaced or restored, as it is used, by natural processes in a reasonable amount of time.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:253'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Replication</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>In scientific research, conducting an experiment to confirm findings or to ensure accuracy. In molecular biology, the process by which genetic material is copied in cells.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:254'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Reproduction</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The sexual or asexual process by which organisms generate new individuals of the same kind and perpetuate the species.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:255'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Reproductive system</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The system of organs involved with animal reproduction, especially sexual reproduction.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:256'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Repulsion</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The tendency of particles or bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity to separate.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:257'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Resistance </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The opposition of a body or substance to current passing through it, resulting in a change of electrical energy into heat or another form of energy.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:258'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Respiratory system</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The system of organs and structures in which gas exchange takes place, consisting of the lungs and airways in air-breathing vertebrates, gills in fish and many invertebrates, the outer covering of the body in worms, and specialized air ducts in insects.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:259'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Scientific method</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A process that uses science process skills as tools to gather, organize, analyze, and communicate information.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:260'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Scientist</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A person with expert knowledge of one or more sciences, that engages in processes to acquire and communicate knowledge.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:261'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Season</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>One of four natural divisions of the year spring, summer, autumn, and winter in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:262'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Sedimentary </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Rock formed from layers of sediment that overlay and squeeze together or are chemically combined.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:263'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Semiconductor</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of various solid crystalline substances, such as germanium or silicon, having electrical conductivity greater than insulators but less than good conductors, and used especially as a base material for computer chips and other electronic devices.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:264'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Sense</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:265'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Sexual reproduction</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Reproduction involving the union of male and female gametes producing an offspring with traits from both parents.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:266'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Skeleton</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The internal structure of vertebrate animals, composed of bone or cartilage, that supports the body, serves as a framework for the attachment of muscles, and protects the vital organs and associated structures.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:267'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Solar eclipse</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An eclipse of the sun by the moon.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:268'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Solar system</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A star and all the planets and other bodies that orbit it; the region in space where these bodies move.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:269'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Solid</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Having a definite shape and a definite volume; one of the fundamental states of matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:270'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Solubility</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The ability or tendency of one substance to dissolve in another at a given temperature and pressure.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:271'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Sound wave</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Longitudinal pressure waves in any material medium regardless of whether they constitute audible sound; earthquake waves and ultrasonic waves are sometimes called sound waves.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:272'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Space</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The limitless expanse where all objects and events occur. Outer space is the region of the universe beyond Earth's atmosphere.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:273'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Speed</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Amount of distance traveled divided by time taken; the time-rate at which any physical process takes place.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:274'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Speed of light</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A fundamental physical constant that is the speed at which electromagnetic radiation propagates in a vacuum and that has a value fixed by international convention of 299,792,458 meters per second.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:275'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Spinal cord</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The long, cordlike part of the central nervous system that is enclosed within the vertebral column (spine) and descends from the base of the brain, with which it is continuous. The spinal cord branches to form the nerves that convey motor and sensory impulses to and from the tissues of the body.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:276'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Steroid</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of numerous naturally occurring or synthetic fat-soluble organic compounds having, as a basis, 17 carbon atoms arranged in four rings and including the sterols and bile acids, adrenal and sex hormones, certain natural drugs such as digitalis compounds, and the precursors of certain vitamins.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:277'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Strong nuclear force</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A fundamental interaction between elementary particles that causes protons and neutrons to bind together in the atomic nucleus.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:278'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Subjectivity</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Modified or affected by personal views, experience, or background.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:279'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Sun</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The closest star to Earth and the center of our solar system.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:280'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Supernatural</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Of or relating to an order of existence beyond the visible observable universe.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:281'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Superposition</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The principle that in a group of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest were the earliest to be deposited.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:282'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Synapse</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The junction across which a nerve impulse passes from one nerve cell to another nerve cell, a muscle cell, or a gland cell.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:283'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Systemic circulation</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The general circulation of the blood through the body, as opposed to the circulation of the blood from the heart to the lungs and back to the heart.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:284'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Telescope</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A usually tubular optical instrument for viewing distant objects by means of the refraction of light rays through a lens or the reflection of light rays by a concave mirror.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:285'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thalamus</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The part of the vertebrate brain that lies at the rear of the forebrain. It relays sensory information to the cerebral cortex and regulates the perception of touch, pain, and temperature.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:286'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Theory </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:287'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Thermometer</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An instrument for measuring temperature, especially one having a graduated glass tube with a bulb containing a liquid, typically mercury or colored alcohol, that expands and rises in the tube as the temperature increases.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:288'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Tide</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The regular rise and fall in the surface level of the Earth's oceans, seas, and bays caused by the gravitational attraction of the Moon and to a lesser extent of the Sun. <o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:289'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Tissue</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Similar cells acting to perform a specific function.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:290'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Triglyceride</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A naturally occurring ester of three fatty acids and glycerol that is the chief constituent of fats and oils.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:291'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Tubercle</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A small rounded projecting part or outgrowth, such as a wartlike excrescence on the roots of some leguminous plants or a knoblike process in the skin or on a bone.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:292'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ultraviolet </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Relating to electromagnetic radiation having frequencies higher than those of visible light but lower than those of x-rays, approximately 1015 -1016 hertz.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:293'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Ureter</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The long, narrow duct that conveys urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder or cloaca.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:294'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Urethra</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The canal through which urine is discharged from the bladder in most mammals and through which semen is discharged in the male.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:295'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Urinary bladder</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An elastic, muscular sac situated in the anterior part of the pelvic cavity in which urine collects before excretion.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:296'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Vaccine</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A preparation of a weakened or killed pathogen, such as a bacterium or virus, or of a portion of the pathogen's structure, that stimulates immune cells to recognize and attack it, especially through antibody production.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:297'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Vacuole</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A cavity in the cytoplasm of a cell, bound by a single membrane and containing water, food, or metabolic waste.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:298'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Vacuum</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A space empty of matter.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:299'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>van der Waals Force</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A weak force of attraction between electrically neutral molecules that collide with or pass very close to each other. The van der Waals force is caused by the attraction between electron-rich regions of one molecule and electron-poor regions of another (the attraction between the molecules seen as electric dipoles).&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:300'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Variable</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>An event, condition, or factor that can be changed or controlled in order to study or test a hypothesis in a scientific experiment.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:301'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Velocity</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The time rate at which a body changes its position vector; quantity whose magnitude is expressed in units of distance over time.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:302'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Vertebrate</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Any of a large group of chordates of the subphylum Vertebrata (or Craniata), characterized by having a backbone.&nbsp;Vertebrates include fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:303'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Vibration</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A periodic and repetitive movement around an equilibrium point.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:304'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Virus</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A noncellular, usually disease-causing, particle with an outer protein code and a core of genetic material that is capable of growth and replication in living host cells.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:305'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Voltage</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A measure of the difference in electric potential between two points in space, a material, or an electric circuit, expressed in volts.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:306'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Volume</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A measure of the amount of space an object takes up; also the loudness of a sound or signal.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:307'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Water cycle</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The path water takes as it is being cycled through the environment, including condensation, evaporation, and precipitation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:308'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Wavelength</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The distance between crests of a wave.<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:309'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Weak nuclear force</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A fundamental interaction between elementary particles that is several orders of magnitude weaker than the electromagnetic interaction and is responsible for some particle decay, nuclear beta decay, and neutrino absorption and emission.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:310'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Weight</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>The force with which a body is attracted to Earth or another celestial body, equal to the product of the object's mass and the acceleration of gravity.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:311;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td style='background:#B8CCE4;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>X-ray</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> <td style='padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>A high-energy stream of electromagnetic radiation having a frequency higher than that of ultraviolet light but less than that of a gamma ray (in the range of approximately 1016 - 1019 hertz).&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> </table> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;text-align:center'><img width=120 height=100 id="_x0000_i1026" src="http://www.floridastandards.org/GRAPHICS/cpalms_resources/cpalms_top_logo.png"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;text-align:center'><span style='mso-themecolor: accent1;mso-themeshade: 191'><span style='color:#365F91'>This report was generated by CPALMS - </span></span><a href="http://www.floridastandards.org">www.floridastandards.org</a></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> </div> </body> </html>