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- abduction
- the lifeting up of landforms due to plate or fault line movement
- acute toxicity
- a toxic affect resulting from a single dose or brief exposure to a substance
- active immunity
- protection against a diease acquired by being infected with the pathogen that causes the diease
- adhesion
- the tendency of water to stick to other substances
- adaption
- a trait or structure that improves an organisms chance for survival and reproduction
- aerobic
- needing oxygen in order to survive
- alkali
- when a subataces has a ph of more then 7 also none as a base
- alloy
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a mixture of 2 or more metals
- analyze
- to examine data to decide what the data shows
- allergy
- an immune system response to proteins in certain substances such as food
- antibiotics
- a group of medicine usede to kill or slow the growth of bacteria that causes diease
- antimicrobial product
- a substancer such as hand sanitizer that is designed to kill microbes
- aquifer
- a layer of rock that stores water and allows water to flow through it
- asthma
- a condition caused when the bronchi swell and become inflamed makeing breathing difficult
- atomic mass
- a mass of an element that is equal to the number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of one atom of the element
- ATP
- a chemical compound that cells use for energy
- biased sample
- a sample collected in such a way that all elements of a poplutaion are not equally repesented such as a sample does not accurately represent the popluation
- asthenosphere
- the soft layer of earths mantle made up of semisolid rock
- benthos
- organisms that live on or near the bottom of the ocean
- boi indicators
- organisms that are used to aasess the health of a water system
- bioaccumlation
- the tendency of a substance to increase in concentration as it moves to higher levels in the food chain