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science
Study of the natural world through experiments
density
How tightly packed the matter in something is
mass
How much matter something contains
volume
How loud something is, or how much space it fills
displacement
A reaction in which an elementary substance ___ and sets free a constituent element from
water
Clear liquid we drink that falls as rain
cylinder
A solid bounded by a ___ surface and two parallel planes
matter
That which has mass and occupies space
liquid
State of matter that flows like water
grams
A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram (plural)
container
Any object that can be used to hold things
mL
A metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter
cubic
Involving the cube and no higher power of a quantity or variable
centimeters
A metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter (plural)
float
The time interval between the deposit of a check in a bank and its payment
sink
A process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system

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