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What is the moon?
This celestial body is our next goal to make a permanent, manned moon base
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What is smell?
This sense is the ability to detect and identify chemicals in the air - butterflies do it with their antennae
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What are bicycles?
This item was fished out of the river (two of them!) when we visited Sawyers Creek
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What is a conductor?
This word describes materials like metal which transfer heat very easily
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What is growth?
This "G" from the phrase MRS GREN is an example of something all living things have just got to do
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What is Matariki?
This star cluster, known in the Northern hemisphere as the Pleiades, marks the New Year in the Maori calendar
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What is touch?
This sense is linked with the word "tactile", in the same way the sense of sight links with the word "visual"
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What is a compound?
This word describes a molecule made of more than one kind of atom joined together, like water or carbon dioxide
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What is "up"?
This direction is where warmer gases and liquids will flow, creating a "convection current"
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What is a Kingdom?
This classification group, bigger than Order, divides all living things into 5 categories
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What is an orbit?
This path describes the movement of a smaller object around a larger object
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What is a cow?
This domestic animal gave us the eyeballs we dissected, way back in Term 1
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What is liquid?
This state of matter is when the atoms are too close together to compress further, but they have enough energy to move and slide past each other
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What is radiation?
This method of heat transfer is the only one that can happen in a vacuum/without direct contact
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What is a Starfish?
This marine creature is a stellar example of an animal from the "Echnioderm" phylum
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What is Venus?
This rocky planet will give you a birthday every day, because the year takes 225 Earth days, and a single rotation is 243 Earth days long
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What is Red-Green colorblindness?
This eye condition is more common in males than females, and is detected using the "Ishihara test"
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What is turbidity?
This word describes how murky water is, with high levels being a problem for stream health
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What is Kelvin?
This temperature system tells you how much energy the particles have - and reaching 0 in it is technically impossible
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What is a nostril?
This structural adaptation at the end of a kiwi's nose gives it an advantage when trying to find bugs in leaf litter
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Who are Artemis and Apollo?
This pair of twin deities from Greek Mythology give their names to the NASA moon missions
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What is a convex lens?
This type of lens will bend incoming light into a single point, making it useful for magnifying glasses, microscopes, and vision correction
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What is a solute?
This word describes the substance that dissolves into your solution, e.g. the sugar in your tea
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What is air?
This "secret ingredient" in Pink Batts is a very poor conductor - it's also in puffer jackets and scrunched-up newspaper
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What is dog?
This canid companion has the scientific name Canis Lupus Familiaris
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