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| Absorb | To take in or swallow up liquids or energy. |
| Adaptation | A structure or behavior that helps a living thing survive in its environment. |
| Astronomy | The study of the solar system and other celestial bodies. |
| Behavior | What an animal does; the way a living thing acts; a livilng things reaction to its environment. |
| Buoyancy | The ability to float when placed in liquid. |
| Camouflage | An adaptation of an organism that enables it to blend in with its surroundings. |
| Carnivore | A meat eater;a consumer that eats only other consumers. |
| Chemical change | Two substances when joined together make a third substance. |
| Circuit | The path electricity flows through. |
| Classify | To place into groups based on similar or different properties; to sort |
| Cold Blooded Animals | Having a body temperature that changes with the environment. |
| Community | A group of different plants and animals living in a particular area, dependent upon each other for food and other needs. |
| Condensation | The changing of a gas into a liquid. |
| Conductor | A material through which electricity can pass; a material thorugh which heat can pass. |
| Consumer | A living thing that depends upon plants or other consumers for food; a living thing that cannot make its own food. |
| Contract | To become smaller when cooled. |
| Decomposer | An organism which breaks down dead plant or animal materrial. |
| Degrees | Units to measure temperature and usally found on a thermometer. |
| Density | The amount of matter in a given volume; how much mass is in a certain volume of matter |
| Dependent | To need another person, animal or thing for your survival. |
| Energy | The study of the interrelationship between living things and their environment. |
| Environment | The total of all surroundings-air, water vegetation, wildlife and humans which affect and influence living things. |
| Evaporate | To change from a liquid state to a gas state. |
| Food Chain | The path energy and material take in a community; energy is passed from the sun to a green plant and on to animals; animals that eat plants may become food for other animals. |
| Food Web | A complete network of two or more food chains;the flow of energy and material through connected food chains. |
| Force | A push or a pull. |
| Friction | A force that occurs when one object rubs against another object. |
| Function | A normal action or use. |
| Germination | Begin to grow or develop; sprout. |
| Habitat | The place where an animal or plant naturally lives or thrives. |
| Herbivore | A plant eater; a consumer that eats only producers. |
| Hibernation | To spend winter in a state in which the body's metabolism greatly slows down. |
| Hypothesis | What you think the answer to a problem or question may be; an educated guess. |
| Insulator | A material through which electrcity cannot pass; a material through which heat cannot pass. |
| Life cycle | the stages in the life of a plant or animal. |
| Life Span | The length of time a plant or animal lives. |
| Liquid | One of the three forms of matter. |
| Magnet | An object that can attract iron and other metals to itself. |
| Mass | The amount of matter or material and object has in it. |
| Matter | The stuff that things are made of; matter is composed of atoms. |
| Migration | Seasonal movement by animals in search of water, food, a warmer climate. |
| Movement | The motion of an object ssuch as sliding, rolling, tumbling bouning and vibrating. |
| Observe | To gather information using the senses; sight, touch, taste, smell and hearing. |
| Offspring | The reproduced young of a particular person, animal or plant progeny. |
| Omnivore | A consumer that eats both plants and animals. |
| Organism | Any living thing. |
| Photosynthesis | The process by which a plant uses sunlight, carbon dioxie and water to produce its own food. |
| Physical Change | When the properties of a substance are changed but the substance remains the same. |
| Pole | the ends of a magnet where the greatest power is found; the ends are called the north and south poles. |
| Pollution | Spoiling the natural state with society's waste. |
| Population | The number of one kind of plant or animal living in a community or habitat |
| Predator | An animal that needs to eat smaller animals to survive. |
| Prediction | A guess based on observation, experience, reasoning; a fortelling of what you think will happen. |
| Producer | A living thing that uses the sun's energy to make food |
| Recycle | To process or treat something so that it may be used again. |
| Reflect | To bounce off or send back. |
| Reproduction | The ability of plants and animals to produce new generations of themselves. |
| Rotation | One complete turn with objects turning around a real or imaginary pole through the center. |
| Seed Dispersal | The way in which seeds are spread from one location to another by wind, water or animal. |
| Solar | Coming from or using the sun. |
| Solid | A form of matter. |
| Thermometer | Tool used to measure temperature. |
| Volume | The amount of space an object takes up. |
