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Matter
Term | Definition |
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Water Cycle | The recycling of water between the Earth and the atmosphere. |
Evaporation | The process of changing a liquid into a gas due to cooling. |
Condensation | The process of changing a gas into a liquid due to cooling. |
Precipitation | Form of water that falls from a cloud to the Earth: rain, sleet, snow and hail. |
Runoff | Precipitation that flows across the land's surface or flows into rivers, streams or collection areas |
Collection | The area where precipitation/water collects. |
Transpiration | The loss of water through a plant's leaves. |
Qualitative | Non- numerical data that is observed, descriptive and subjective. |
Quantitative | Data represented numerically, including anything That can be counted, measured, or given a numerical value. |
Matter | Anything made of atoms and molecules. Matter is anything that has mass. |
Chemical Change | Any change that causes a new substance to be formed. |
Physical change | Change the state of matter in which the material is still the same type of material and has the same properties as the original material. |
Contract | To make something smaller or shrink. |
Expand | To make something larger, to increase or grow. |