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What is erosion
The process of moving sediment from one place to another
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What is weathering
The process of breaking rock into sand, silt, and other tiny pieces called sediment
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What is mitochondria
Structures that release energy in a cell
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What is balanced forces
Are equal in size and opposite in direction
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Who is Robert Hooke
One of the first people to study cells and come up with the name cells from a piece of cork
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What is mass movement
The downhill movement of rock and soil because of gravity
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What is a graduated cylinder
A narrow container used to measure the volume of liquids
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What is animal, plant, protist, fungus, and moneran
The basic 5 kingdoms
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What is speed
A measure of the distance an object moves in a given amount of time
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Who is Carolus Linnaeus
He developed the classification system
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What is continental drift
The theory that the continents move over the Earth's surface
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What is epithelial tissue
What kind of tissue covers the outside of the body and lines inner surfaces of the body
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What is dichotomous key
A series of choices that leads to the correct identification of an organism
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What is inertia
The property of matter that keeps it moving in a straight line or keeps it at rest
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Who is Isaac Newton
He studied the motions of objects, which led to the 3 laws of motion
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What is the rock cycle
The repeating of changes from one kind of rock to another over time
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What is the periodic table of elements
Mendeleev organized all the known elements into a chart according to their properties
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What is an endoskeleton
The system of connected bones within an animal's body
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What is acceleration
Any change in velocity
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Who is Galileo
He proved that all objects did not revolve around the Earth
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What is Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary Rock
The 3 kinds of rock
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What is mass
A measure of the amount of "stuff" in an object
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What is a genus
A group organisms that share major characteristics and are therefore closely related
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What is velocity
An object's speed in a particular direction
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Who is Albert Einstein
He developed the theory of Relativity E=mcsquared
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