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1. Season

One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium.

2. Liquid

Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium.A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.

3. Habitat

A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium.

4. Sense

One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.Any of the faculties by which stimuli from outside or inside the body are received and felt, as the faculties of hearing, sight, smell, touch, taste, and equilibrium.A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.

5. Heredity

A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.The passage of biological traits or characteristics from parents to offspring through the inheritance of genes.

6. Organism

One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.An individual form of life of one or more cells that maintains various vital processes necessary for life.

7. Matter

Substance that possesses inertia and occupies space, of which all objects are constituted.A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.

8. Natural resource

One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.Something, such as a forest, a mineral deposit, or fresh water, that is found in nature and is necessary or useful to humans.A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.

9. Observation

One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.What one has observed using senses or instruments.

10. Attraction

One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.The electric or magnetic force exerted by oppositely charged particles, tending to draw or hold the particles together.A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.

11. Precipitation

A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.In meteorology, a form of water, such as rain, snow, or sleet that condenses from the atmosphere, becomes too heavy to remain suspended, and falls to the Earth's surface.One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.

12. Producer

One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.An organism, usually a plant or bacterium, that produces organic compounds from simple inorganic molecules and energy (typically light energy) from the environment.

13. Weight

One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.The force with which a body is attracted to Earth or another celestial body, equal to the product of the object's mass and the acceleration of gravity.A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.

14. Skeleton

One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.The internal structure of vertebrate animals, composed of bone or cartilage, that supports the body, serves as a framework for the attachment of muscles, and protects the vital organs and associated structures.One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.

15. Repulsion

One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.The tendency of particles or bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity to separate.A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.

16. Scientist

One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.A person with expert knowledge of one or more sciences, that engages in processes to acquire and communicate knowledge.

17. Volume

A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.A measure of the amount of space an object takes up; also the loudness of a sound or signal.One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.

18. Inference

One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence.A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.

19. Offspring

The progeny or descendants of an animal or plant considered as a group.One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.

20. Mass

A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.The amount of matter an object contains.One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.

21. Solid

One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.Having a definite shape and a definite volume; one of the fundamental states of matter.One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.

22. Life cycle

The entire sequence of events in an organism's growth, development, and reproduction.One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.

23. Motion

The act or process of changing position and/or direction.One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.

24. Scientific method

One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.A process that uses science process skills as tools to gather, organize, analyze, and communicate information.A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.

25. Consumer

One of the fundamental states of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.One of four natural divisions of the year—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—in temperate zones. Each season has its own characteristic weather and lasts approximately three months. The change in the seasons is brought about by the shift in the angle at which the Sun's rays strike the Earth. This angle changes as the Earth orbits in its yearly cycle around the Sun due to the tilt of the Earth's axis.An organism that feeds on other organisms for food.A place in an ecosystem where an organism normally lives.

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