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| Biology | The study of life |
| Organism | Anything capable of carrying on life processes |
| Community | An assortment of life forms within a given place where all the organisms interact and depend on one another in varius ways |
| Energy | The ability to do work |
| Producers | Organisms that make their own food |
| Chlorophyll | A green substance in producers that traps light from the sun |
| Photosynthesis | Formation of energy by chlorophyll-containing plants expsoed to sunlight |
| Consumers | Organisms that cannot produce their own food |
| Cellular Respiration | Through this process, producers and consumers convert their energy into glucose and other sugars to a usable form of energy |
| Food chain | A passage of food and the energy it contains |
| Decomposers | Feed on the dead remains and waste products of living organisms |
| Evolution | The change in organisms over time |
| Adaptations | Traits, which develop according to an organism's coded instructions |
| Science | A process that produces a bod of knowledge about nature |
| Technology | Applying knowledge to real problems |
| Data | All information gathered from observation |
| Hypothesis | A statement that explains and relates data |
| Controlled experiment | An experiment which all the variables are the same except for the one being tested |
| Independent variable | The variable being tested |
| Experimental group | The group in which the the independent variable is changed or manipulated |
| Control group | The group in which all the variables remain constant, even the independent variable |
| Dependent variable | Any change that results from the manipulation of the independent variable |
| Theories | Hypotheses that have stood the test of time |
| Laws | Statements about events that always occur in nature |
| Transmition electron microscope | Used in order to view parts of very small structures |
| Scanning electron microscope | An electron microscope that permits the view of surfaces not possible with TEM |
| International System of Measurment | Modern form of the older metric system and is now used in most contries |
