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Like spiders caterpillars have spinning glands which produce this fiber

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This latin word for fig is also the name of the genus to which it belongs

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Tiny tim tiptoed through these flowers brought to europe by augier de busbecq

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Snail shells are shaped in a pattern usually called this; they add new coils as the snail ages

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It's the process by which a snake sheds its skin or a deer its antlers

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The blue whale feeds almost entirely on these small shrimplike animals

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The name of this treeless arctic zone comes from a lapp term for hill

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The adult human brain is made up of more than 10 billion of these nerve cells

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When a muscle contracts this connective tissue pulls on the bone & makes the joint move

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The leaves of a fern are commonly called this from the latin for foliage

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The henry draper catalogue became known for listing the measurements of over 400000 of these

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Much of a cell's water passes through the plasma membrane by this process

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A silvery food fish or to heat ore in order to extract metal

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Red blood cells are made in this substance that fills the medullary cavity of the bones

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It's the group of elements that includes bromine fluorine & astatine; it's also an incandescent bulb that uses them

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A surplus of these in the south led george washington carver to create over 300 new uses for them

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Formed from cooling lava it's the most abundant volcanic rock

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It's the science concerned with the construction of mechanical devices to do the work of men

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Named from the greek for blood-like this mineral often red is the chief ore of iron

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From the greek for all the earth it's the hypothetical land mass that once included all of the continents

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A hygrometer is any of various instruments for measuring this in the air

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Fm is the chemical symbol for this element discovered in the 20th century

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This second-lightest gas has the lowest boiling point of any element

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In summer these animals go to the pribilof islands in the north pacific to breed

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These tusked pinnipeds like to suck clams out of their shells

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This chemical element first positively identified in 1958 was named for swedish dynamite inventor alfred

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This element earth's most abundant alkali metal frequently occurs in compounds like nacl

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It's thought that these glassy objects were formed by the impacts of meteorites

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About half as heavy as water it's the lightest of all metals

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Though usually white this milky substance produced by some plants can also be orange red or yellow

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It's the branch of physics that deals with the nature & properties of light

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Thrust comes from the sudden inequality of this sometimes measured in atmospheres inside & outside a rocket

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Oddly this property is lower in solid than in liquid water so ice floats

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This innermost & largest of mars' moons orbits the planet every 7.65 hours

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The tusks on a walrus are its upper canines; on an elephant they're this type of tooth

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At one time this desert tree was used to make fence posts but now it's used for aromatic firewood

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Milo kafir durra & feterita are all types of this staple grass

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Amphibian larvae have these respiratory organs on the outside of the body

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Discovered in 1974 the oldest skeleton of a female hominid is nicknamed this after a beatles song

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Most fish expel carbon dioxide through these

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It's the largest and most economically important family of conifers

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The color of pure marble

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By definition a phototropic plant moves in response to this

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Amphibian larvae have these respiratory organs on the outside of the body

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This latin word for fig is also the name of the genus to which it belongs

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It's what the archerfish shoots to bring down insects

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The henry draper catalogue became known for listing the measurements of over 400000 of these

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Mildews smuts & morels belong to this group of organisms incapable of making their own food

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By definition nonferrous alloys do not contain this element

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The cuttlefish hides 2 ways: it can camouflage itself like a chameleon or hide behind a cloud of this

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Ground-based measurements of this dangerous gas o3 were started in antarctica in 1956

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The blue whale feeds almost entirely on these small shrimplike animals

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Though usually white this milky substance produced by some plants can also be orange red or yellow

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In summer these animals go to the pribilof islands in the north pacific to breed

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Like fish some fungi have openings called these

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Snails have these organs at the end of their 2 stalks

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Discovered in 1974 the oldest skeleton of a female hominid is nicknamed this after a beatles song

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Most fish expel carbon dioxide through these

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The explosive trinitrotoluene is commonly abbreviated this

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The luster of this rock formed from shale under pressure is seen in older blackboards

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