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photosynthesis reptiles solidify transmit
Process that green plants use Cold-blooded vertebrates with When a liquid cools and Pass something, such as
to make food from sunlight scaly skin that usually reproduce becomes a solid information, between two places
by laying eggs
physics solution tropical
Study of the universe and forces. republic Mixture that is created Area or climate with hot
Someone who studies physics is State ruled by elected when a solid dissolves in a temperatures
called a physicist officials instead of a royal liquid and disappears
family or emperor tsunami
planet sound Giant wave created by an
Large, round object that robot Form of energy that is produced earthquake or a volcanic eruption
orbits a star Machine that is programmed by when objects vibrate, or shake
a computer to do different tasks turbine
poisonous space Wheel or rotor that is turned
Substance that may be deadly rock Place beyond Earth’s to make power
if touched or eaten Naturally occuring solid made atmosphere
from different minerals, such universe
pollen as granite. Rocks make up the spacecraft All space and everything in it
Powder that comes from surface of planets and moons Vehicle that travels in space
flowering plants and is used venomous
Substance that may be deadly if
in pollination rover species
Robot used to explore Specific type of an animal or injected by an animal or plant,
pollination the surface of a rocky planet plant that can mate and produce through a sting or fangs
Transfer of pollen from one plant or moon young together
to another so those plants can vertebrate
reproduce reaction spectrum Animal that has a backbone
Effect when two chemicals Range of something; for vibrate
pollution cause a change in each other example, the range of
Harmful substances in the air, colors in a rainbow Moving back and forth small
amounts very quickly
soil, or water reflect stalactite
power source When light or sound Piece of rock that hangs down volcano
bounces off a surface
Energy that is used to make a from the roof of a cave and looks Opening in the Earth’s crust,
usually in the shape of a
machine work, such as electricity repel like an icicle
When two objects push mountain, out of which lava, ash,
predator away from each other stalagmite rock, and gas erupt, sometimes
Animal that hunts other Piece of rock that points explosively
living animals for food reproduce upward, slowly growing
Have young from the floor of a cave voyage
prehistoric A journey, often over water
Time before written history reservoir star warm-blooded
prey Large store of something, Huge, hot sphere of gas in space Animal that keeps a constant
usually water
that releases energy from its
Animal that is hunted for food core and gives off heat and light body temperature
primate satellite sustainable weight
Any object that goes around
Type of mammal, which a planet, usually a moon or a Able to be supported for a long Amount of the force of gravity
includes monkeys and humans human-made machine time that acts on an object, making it
prison scavenger tame feel heavy. The more mass
something has, the larger the
Building where people who Animal that feeds on the Animal that is used to people, force of gravity on the object,
have broken the law are locked leftover meat of another such as a pet dog or cat and the heavier it feels
up as a punishment animal that has already died
probe shadow technology wildlife
Animals found in a certain area
Using scientific knowledge to
Unmanned spacecraft designed Area of darkness formed create machinery and devices,
to study objects in space and send when light rays are blocked such as computers womb
information back to Earth by a solid object Organ in which baby
producer shield tectonic plate animals develop
Large, slow-moving piece
Living thing such as a plant that Object that protects something of the Earth’s crust worship
makes its own food and is eaten from damage or attack Praying to a god or gods
by animals telescope X-ray
program society Instrument used to look at Radiation used to create shadows
Organized group of people
distant objects
Set of instructions a computer with a shared culture of bones and other organs in the
follows to complete a task temperature body. Images on an X-ray photo
queen software Measure of how hot or cold can reveal internal damage and
disease
Programs and instructions
things are
Woman who rules a country that are used by a computer
recycle solar system temple young
Babies, or not very old
Home for a god or gods and a
Use something old to make The sun and all the objects that place for worshipping them
something new orbit it, including the planets zoo
renewable solid traditional Place where wild animals are
When something has been done
kept, so people can see and
Type of energy that will not run State of matter that in the same way for a long time study them
out, such as solar power holds its shape
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