Everything in this flashcard set.
- adaptation
- The responsive adjustment of a sense organ to varying conditions
- attract
- To direct toward itself or oneself by means of some psychological power or physical attributes
- metamorphic
- Of or relating to ___
- celsius
- Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer
- clay
- United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who
- sedimentary
- Produced by the action of water
- conduction
- The transmission of heat or electricity or sound
- conductor
- A material that allows heat or electric current to pass through it.
- mineral
- Solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition
- reuse
- To use again after processing
- ecosystem
- A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment
- environment
- The natural world around us
- erosion
- Condition in which the earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and wind
- evidence
- All the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is
- experiment
- The act of conducting a controlled test or investigation
- extinct
- No longer in existence
- fossil
- The remains of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated
- friction
- The resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another
- generator
- Engine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by electromagnetic induction
- habitat
- The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs
- hardness
- The property of being rigid and resistant to pressure
- heat
- Energy that makes things warm
- humus
- Partially decomposed organic matter
- igneous
- Produced under conditions involving intense heat
