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Altimeter -
correct answer ✅An instrument that uses air pressure to record
height, such as the height of an airplane.
Anemometer -
correct answer ✅An instrument to measure wind speed.
Angiosperm -
correct answer ✅A group of plants that produce seeds enclosed
within an ovary, which may mature into a fruit.
Annuals -
correct answer ✅Plants that die after one growing season.
Asexual Reproduction -
correct answer ✅Reproduction involving ONE parent only.
Atmosphere -
correct answer ✅The Earth's atmosphere is primarily nitrogen and
oxygen.
- atmosphere extends to the surface of about 10km.
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- stratosphere extends from 10km to 50km
- mesosphere extends from 50km to 80km
- thermosphere extends beyond 80km
Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) -
correct answer ✅Light emission from the upper atmosphere that
appear in many shapes and colors.
Bacillus -
correct answer ✅a rod-shaped bacteria.
Blood -
correct answer ✅Fluid that circulates throughout the body of an
animal, distributing nutrients (usually oxygen).
Canopy -
correct answer ✅A layer of tree branches and other vegetation
elevated above the ground.
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Carbon Dioxide (C02) -
correct answer ✅A colorless, odorless gas that is important in the
Earth's atmospheric greenhouse effect.
Carcinogen -
correct answer ✅A substance that can lead to cancer.
Carcinoma -
correct answer ✅A malignant (infectious) tumor, which forms in
the skin and outside of internal organs.
Carnivore -
correct answer ✅An organism that eats meat, which includes
animals, fungi, and plants.
Ceilometer -
correct answer ✅An instrument that measures cloud height.
Cell -
correct answer ✅A fundamental unit of all light. The cell consists
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of an outer plasma membrane, the cytoplasm, and genetic material
(DNA).
Celsius -
correct answer ✅A temperature scale which freezes at 0 degrees
and boils at 100 degrees.
Chemical Properties -
correct answer ✅Properties that do change the chemical nature of
matter.
- change results in an entirely different kind of matter.
- burning, tarnishing, rusting, decomposing
Chemotherapy -
correct answer ✅A cancer treatment that includes chemicals toxic
to malignant (infected) cells.
Chinook Wind -
correct answer ✅A warm, dry wind on the eastern side of the
Rocky Mountains.