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crater eclipse exoskeleton fungi
Bowl-shaped dent on the surface When an object in space Hard outer casing of animals Group of living things, including
of a planet or other body in space, passes into the shadow such as arthropods that do not mushrooms and molds, that break
caused by a collision with a rock of another object have an inside skeleton down dead plants and animals to
crime election experiment make their food
Activity that is against the law Event where people vote to Test to see how something galaxy
crop decide who will be part of works Huge group of stars, gas, and
dust held together by gravity
the government
Group of plants that are grown explorer
as food electricity Someone who travels to gas
Type of energy that can be unmapped places to find State of matter with no fixed
crust used to power appliances such out what is there shape, such as air, that fills any
Outer layer of a planet as lights. It is also found space it is in
culture naturally as lightning extinction generation
When all of a particular animal or
Way of life and beliefs of the element plant species dies out and there Group of living things that are of
people of a region or country One of 118 chemical substances are none left in the world a similar age, and usually related;
deciduous tree that are made of the same type factory for example, brothers and sisters
Type of tree that loses all its of atom, such as gold, oxygen, Building where products are are one generation and their
leaves at the same time during and helium. The elements are made parents are another
the winter or the dry season arranged on the periodic table genetics
decomposer emperor fertilize Study of the genes in DNA that
Process by which cells from a
Living thing, often a fungus, that Ruler of an empire male and female join to create cause characteristics like hair
breaks down dead matter to empire offspring, such as male plant color to be passed from one
create nutrients Large area with different pollen and a female plant ovum generation to the next. Someone
who studies genetics is called a
deforestation peoples, ruled by a single joining to create a seed geneticist
Destruction of forests government or person fins geometry
democracy endangered Flattened limbs found on Type of math that deals with
System of government where When an animal or plant species animals that live in water that solids, surfaces, lines, angles,
people outside the government is in danger of becoming extinct help them swim and space
have a say in how the country is energy fish
run, usually by voting Source of power such as Cold-blooded vertebrates that germs
Tiny life forms, such as bacteria
desert electrical energy or heat energy live underwater and have scales or viruses, that cause disease
Dry region that gets 10 in (25 cm) environment flexible
or less of rainfall in a year. Deserts Surroundings in which Bendy gills
can be hot or cold something lives Organs of fish and some
amphibians that allow them
dictator equality float to breathe underwater
Stay at the surface of a
Ruler with total power Equal rights for all people liquid, rather than sinking glacier
dinosaur equator forage Huge, thick sheet of ice moving
Group of reptiles, often very big, Imaginary line around the Searching for food in the wild very slowly, either down the side
that lived millions of years ago center of the Earth that is an of a mountain or over land.
diplomat equal distance from the North force Glaciers help to shape and
Push or pull that causes things
form the landscape
Person from one country who and South poles to start moving, move faster,
travels to another to make sure erosion change direction, slow down, government
the two countries have a good Gradual wearing away of rocks or stop moving Group of people who run
relationship due to water and weather a country
direction eruption foreign grasslands
Something or someone from
Way in which an object is When lava, ash, rock, or gas a different country or place Open land covered in grass and
traveling, such as up or down, or shoots or flows out of a volcano sometimes a few small bushes
right or left fossil
ethical Remains of a dead dinosaur, gravity
disability Something that is done the right other animal, or plant, which has Invisible force that pulls objects
Something that makes certain way, with thought as to how it been preserved in rock over time toward each other
activities difficult or impossible will affect others
for a person to do fossil fuels habitat
Natural home environment
disease evaporation Fuels made from animals and of an animal or plant
plants that died millions of years
When a liquid is heated and
Condition that makes a person ill, turns into a gas or vapor ago, such as coal and oil
often caused by germs hardware
Physical parts of a computer,
drought evolution friction such as the keyboard and screen
Force created when two
Process where living things
Period when there is little or no change, over many generations, surfaces rub or slide against
rainfall to become new species each other hatch
Process by which an animal breaks
earthquake exoplanet fuel out of an egg
Shaking of the Earth’s surface Planet that orbits a star other Substance that is burned to
caused by moving tectonic plates than the sun create heat or power hemisphere
or volcanic activity Top or bottom half of the Earth
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