Tiffany Goins
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- Data
- imformation gathered during a scientific investigation.
- Decomposer
- an organism that obtains energy by breaking down wastes of organisims or the remains of dead organisims
- Densty
- a measure of the mass of a subtance per unit volume.
- DNA
- the nucleic acid responsible for carrying the genectic information of most organisims from one generation to the next
- Dependent Variable
- the factor that is measured in an experiment in response to the independent variable
- Desalination
- a process used to separate the salt from seawater for the purpose of reclaiming fresh water and salt
- Diffusion
- the movement of subtances from an area of high concentration to an area of lower concentraton
- Disease
- any change that
- Divergent Boundary
- the location where two tectonic plates pull apart
- Dose
- the amount of a chemical subtance that oe individual should take for the desired outcome
- Drain field
- a series of pipes in a septic system that allows wastewater to flow into the gravel or rock below
- Ductile
- metals that are able to be stretched out or drawn into a wire without breaking
- Experiment
- a procedure designed to test a hypothesis
- Evolution
- the process of change over time that causes specitation. Developed by Charles Darwin. This theroy has been accepted and supported by all branches of science for over 150 years
- Evidence
- proof of something happening