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| How many lunar phases are there? |
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| There are 8 stages: New moon, Waxing Crecent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter, Waning Crescent (Start over at the New Moon) |
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| What are the categories for classification of living things? |
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| Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family , Genus, Species |
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| What are the two main types of reproduction and their characteristics? |
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| Sexual: sperm and egg nucleus unite in the process known as pollination. |
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| The characteristics by which we classify a thing as living or non-living: Food production, acquisition, and use; secretion and excretion; transport; ability to move; irritability; growth; and reproduction. |
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| a portion of the animal kingdom that are animals without backbones, including hydra, jellyfishes, corals, worms, mollusks, and jointed leg animals. |
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| Animals with back bones, including fish, frogs, birds, and mammals. |
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| The Crust: is divided into seven crustal plated; has undergone numerous gradual violent changes, composed of a variety of rocks, minerals, and soils; contains fossil evidence. |
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| includes the continental shelf, continental slope and ocean ridges which contribute to the drifting of plates. |
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| are the result of the sun warming the water and earth's rotation. |
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| Humans need the oceans for... |
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| sources of food and other natural resources. |
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| is a thin layer of constantly moving air that surrounds the earth. |
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| are formed by water vapor in the atmosphere that sometimes condenses to form clouds. Other vapor condenses and falls to earth and precipitation. |
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| Our solar system consists of eight planets, two planetoids, the sun, and associated clouds of matter, including meters comets and asteroids. |
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| The 8 planets in our solar system |
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| Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune (Pluto is one of the planetoids). |
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| Man has been exploring space in manned and unmanned space probes since 1957. |
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| converts food into energy or cell-building material |
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| provides the body with its shape and structure and gives it the ability to move. |
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| secures the oxygen necessary for the conversion of food to energy and eleminates carbon dioxide |
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| recieves stimuli and carries them to the brain; it then transmits the brain's messages to various parts of the body by means of nerve impulses. |
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| rides the body of gaseous liquid, and solid wastes |
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| moves a variety of substances from place to place in the body. |
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| males produce sperm cells capable of fertilizing an ovum, the females produce an egg reproductive cell. |
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| Matter is anything that occupies space and has weight is matter. Matter exists in elements, compounds, and mixtures. |
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| A change in matter from one state, or phase, to another is a physical change. |
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| molecular theory is used to explain a variety of changes in matter. |
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| A change in matter that produces a new substance is a chemical change. This change cannot be reversed. |
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| Atoms are particles of matter composed of even smaller particles: protons, neutrons, and electrons. under special conditions, portions of matter in an atomic nucleus can be converted to energy. |
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| Energy is never destroyed, it is changed from one form to another. |
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| a form of energy that results from the storage or movement of electrons. |
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| is produced by and imbalance between the positive and negative charges on the surface of an object. |
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| produced when electrons flow through a conductor. |
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| travels in waves that are refracted or bent as they pass from one medium to another. The colors of light follow the pattern: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. (ROY G. BIV) |
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| The heat energy contained by a substance is the total kinetic energy possessed by the atoms or molecules of the substance. |
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| Devices that enable us to increase a force, speed, or change the direction of force. |
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