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herbivore landfill manuscript mineral
Animal that eats only plants Place where garbage is buried Handwritten book, poem, or Natural substance that grows in
herd in the ground other document crystals, such as salt. Minerals can
be polished to make gemstones.
Group of animals, particularly landslide mate All rocks are made from minerals
hoofed mammals Sudden movement of a large When a male and female animal
amount of earth down a hill or produce young together mixture
hibernation mountainside Combination of more than
Period of inactivity that material one type of thing
some animals go through latitude Substance that can be used to
in the winter Horizontal line around the Earth make or build things. It can be monument
that tells you how far up or down natural or made by humans Statue put up to remember
holy the globe a place is a person or event
Something or somewhere mathematics
sacred to a religion lava Study of numbers and moon
hurricane Hot, melted rock on the equations. Someone who Object made of rock, or rock
and ice that orbits a planet or
Earth’s surface
studies mathematics is called
Violent storm with extremely a mathematician an asteroid
strong winds that can cause a light
great deal of damage Type of energy that allows matter navigation
identical humans and other animals to Stuff that all things are made of Way of finding a path from one
place to another
see, and plants to make food
Two or more people or things melt
that look exactly the same light year When a solid is heated Nobel Prize
Distance traveled by light in a and becomes a liquid Special prize given to people for
imports year, equal to about 5.9 trillion different subjects in both science
Goods or services bought from miles (9.5 trillion km) memory and the arts, once a year
another country Ability to remember things
incubation liquid that have happened, or where novel
computers store their
State of matter that flows and
Story book
Keeping an egg warm until it takes the shape of any container information
hatches it is in, such as water nucleus
instruction longitude merchant Central part of an atom or cell
Person whose job is buying
Command that tells something Vertical line around the Earth and selling things, often from nutrients
or someone what to do that tells you how far east or a foreign country Food or substance that gives
insulator west around the globe a place is metamorphosis a living thing the energy or
chemicals that it needs to live,
Substance that does not allow lungs Process by which some grow, and move
heat or electricity to pass easily Breathing organs found inside animals transform themselves
through it the body of vertebrates into a different form from omnivore
interact luxury youth to adulthood Animal that eats both plants
and meat
When two or more things Expensive activity or item that is meteor
communicate or do something not neccessary but wanted Streak of light caused by a orbit
that affects the other meteoroid burning up as it Path an object takes when
Internet machine enters Earth’s atmosphere, traveling around another object
when pulled by its gravity
Something that is powered by
Network that links computers energy and carries out a task sometimes called a “falling star”
across the world meteorite orchestra
invertebrate magma Rock from space that lands on Group of muscians and their
Hot, melted rock below the
instruments playing together
Animal that does not have Earth’s surface a planet or moon’s surface
a backbone microscope organ
jewel magnetic field Instrument that magnifies Body part that has a certain job;
Area of magnetism
for example, the heart, which
A precious gemstone that surrounding a magnet or things and is used to look at pumps blood
has been cut and polished a planet, star, or galaxy tiny objects
joint magnetism microscopic organism
Living thing
Place in the body where two Invisible force that is created by Very small and only able to
bones meet, such as the knee magnets, which pull certain be seen with a microscope particle
or elbow metals toward them migration Extremely small part of a
king magnify Regular movement of animals solid, liquid, or gas
Man who rules a country Make something appear over long distances, often to periodic table
feed or breed
knowledge larger than it is Set arrangement of elements
into a grid
Understanding of a topic mammals Milky Way
Galaxy we live in
laboratory Warm-blooded vertebrates that persecution
Bad treatment of people because
Place where scientific have skin covered in hair and mine of their beliefs
experiments are done feed their young milk Place where naturally occurring
resources such as coal, iron,
lake mantle copper, or gold, and gemstones philosophy
Study of how we live, such as
Large body of water Thick layer of hot rock between such as diamonds and rubies are whether things are wrong or right.
surrounded by land the core and the crust of a dug out of the ground Someone who studies philosophy
planet or moon
is called a philosopher
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