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| 5664112850 | Inorganic | Not formed from living things or the remains of living things | 0 | |
| 5664112851 | Organic | of, relating to, or derived from living matter and Carbon-containing | 1 | |
| 5664112852 | Natural | Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing | 2 | |
| 5664112853 | Synthetic | Artificial | 3 | |
| 5664112854 | Kinetic | Energy of motion | 4 | |
| 5664112855 | Potential Energy | Stored Energy | 5 | |
| 5664112856 | Radioactive decay | A spontaneous process in which unstable nuclei lose energy by emitting radiation | 6 | |
| 5664112857 | Half life | the time required for something to fall to half its initial value (in particular, the time for half the atoms in a radioactive substance to disintegrate) | 7 | |
| 5664112858 | Law of Conservation of Matter | The principle that the total amount of matter is constant during any physical or chemical change (matter is neither created nor destroyed during these types of changes). | 8 | |
| 5664112859 | 1st Law of Thermodynamics | The principle of conservation of energy. Energy can be transferred and transformed, but it cannot be created or destroyed. | 9 | |
| 5664112860 | 2nd Law of Thermodynamics | Every energy transfer or transformation increases the entropy of the universe. | 10 | |
| 5664112861 | Entropy | A measure of disorder or randomness and a function of thermodynamic variables, as temperature, pressure, or composition, that is a measure of the energy that is not available for work during a thermodynamic process | 11 | |
| 5664112862 | Organism | A living thing | 12 | |
| 5664112863 | Species | Comprising related organisms that share common characteristics and are capable of interbreeding. | 13 | |
| 5664112864 | Population | A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area | 14 | |
| 5664112865 | Community | an interacting group of various species in a common location. For example, a forest of trees and undergrowth plants, inhabited by animals and rooted in soil containing bacteria and fungi | 15 | |
| 5664112866 | Ecosystem | A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. | 16 | |
| 5664112867 | Producers | Make their own food | 17 | |
| 5664112868 | Autotrophs | any organism capable of self-nourishment by using inorganic materials as a source of nutrients and using photosynthesis or chemosynthesis as a source of energy, as most plants and certain bacteria and protists. | 18 | |
| 5664112869 | Consumers | An organism that obtains energy and nutrients by feeding on other organisms or their remains. | 19 | |
| 5664112870 | Heterotrophs | An organism that obtains organic food molecules by eating other organisms or their by-products. | 20 | |
| 5664112871 | Decomposers | Break down organic matter | 21 | |
| 5664112872 | Photosynthesis | carbon dioxide and water --> Glucose and oxygen Conversion of light energy from the sun into chemical energy. | 22 | |
| 5664112873 | Cellular Respiration (reactants and products) | C6H12O6 (Glucose) + 6O2--> 6CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) + 6H20 (Water) + ATP (Energy) | 23 | |
| 5664112874 | Aerobic | Process that requires oxygen | 24 | |
| 5664112875 | Anaerobic | Describes a process that does not require oxygen. | 25 | |
| 5664112876 | Adaptation | A trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce | 26 | |
| 5664112877 | Mutation | A rare change in the DNA of a gene, ultimately creating genetic diversity. | 27 | |
| 5664112878 | Gene Trait | Represented in pairs with an upper case letter for the dominant (A) and a lower case letter for the recessive (a). Since half the genetic material is from each parent, the offspring's traits are represented as a combination of these. | 28 | |
| 5664112879 | Chromosome | A threadlike, gene-carrying structure found in the nucleus. Each _____ consists of one very long DNA molecule and associated proteins. | 29 | |
| 5664112880 | Gene pool | Combined genetic information of all the members of a particular population | 30 | |
| 5664112881 | Natural Selection | A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits. | 31 | |
| 5664112882 | Extinction | A term that typically describes a species that no longer has any known living individuals. | 32 | |
| 5664112883 | Plate Tectonics | A theory stating that the earth's surface is broken into plates that move. Geological processes, such as continental drift, volcanoes, and earthquakes, resulting from plate movement | 33 | |
| 5664112884 | Weathering | The breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's surface. | 34 | |
| 5664112885 | Climate Change | Change in the statistical properties of the climate system when considered over periods of decades | 35 | |
| 5664112886 | Rocks | A naturally formed aggregate, or mixture, of minerals; have varied chemical compositions | 36 | |
| 5664112887 | Minerals | A solid inorganic substance of natural occurrence. | 37 | |
| 5664112888 | Climate | Overall weather in an area over a long period of time | 38 | |
| 5664112889 | Weather | The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place. | 39 | |
| 5664112890 | CO2 | carbon dioxide |  | 40 |
| 5664112891 | CO | Carbon Monoxide | 41 | |
| 5664112892 | C6H12O6 | glucose | 42 | |
| 5664112893 | CH4 | methane | 43 | |
| 5664112894 | H2 | hydrogen | 44 | |
| 5664112895 | H2O | oxidane/water | 45 | |
| 5664112896 | N2 | nitrogen gas | 46 | |
| 5664112897 | NOx | nitrogen oxide | 47 | |
| 5664112898 | NO3- | nitrate | 48 | |
| 5664112899 | NH3 | ammonia | 49 | |
| 5664112900 | O2 | dioxide | 50 | |
| 5664112901 | O3 | trioxygen | 51 | |
| 5664112902 | P | phosphorous | 52 | |
| 5664112903 | PO4 | phosphate | 53 | |
| 5664112904 | S | sulfur | 54 | |
| 5664112905 | SO2 | sulfur dioxide | 55 | |
| 5664112906 | CL | chloride | 56 | |
| 5664112907 | K | potassium | 57 | |
| 5664112908 | NaCl | sodium chloride | 58 | |
| 5664112909 | Pb | lead | 59 | |
| 5664112910 | Hg | mercury | 60 | |
| 5664112911 | Rn | radon | 61 | |
| 5664112912 | U | uranium | 62 | |
| 5664112913 | Richter scale | A scale that rates an earthquake's magnitude based on the size of its seismic waves. | 63 | |
| 5664112914 | Biodiversity | The amount of biological or living diversity per unit area. It includes the concepts of species diversity, habitat diversity and genetic diversity. | 64 | |
| 5664112915 | Gene | A segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait | 65 | |
| 5664112916 | Trait | A characteristic that an organism can pass on to its offspring through its genes. | 66 | |
| 5664112917 | Transpiration | Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant | 67 | |
| 5664112918 | Fermentation | A catabolic process that makes a limited amount of ATP from glucose without an electron transport chain and that produces a characteristic end product, such as ethyl alcohol or lactic acid. Process by which cells release energy in the absence of oxygen | 68 | |
| 5664112919 | Chemosynthesis | Process by which some organisms, such as certain bacteria, use chemical energy to produce carbohydrates | 69 |
