Thanks for checking out our first project. Over 100 science students were involved in the project. We have collected science words that we see everyday in various media sources and found their meanings, along with the media sources that they are found in. If you click a letter in the table below, you will be sent to the words that we found that start with that letter. By clicking on the letter boxes next to the letter titles, you will see examples of where those words were found by viewing a Power Point Presentation that we made for each letter. We found examples of the words in magazines, videos, newspapers, photographs, the Internet, and many other media sources.
 

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ABDUCTORS: Muscle taking a limb or from the joint  away from the body.

ACCRETION: A scientific procedure in which oxygen and helium combine.

AIR: Molecules of gas that surround the earth.

ALCOHOL: Any of a group of similar organic compounds. Alcohol contains a hydroxyl group and react with certain acids to form esters.

ALGAE: This is a large group of diverse unicellular and multicellular aquatic plants; they grow in both freshwater and sea water and are used commercially as a source of thickness and pigments such as beta carotene.

ARCHAEONYCTERIS: A bat that descends from a common ancestry that could fly and that lived millions of years ago.

ASCORBIC ACID: (vitamin C) called also cevitamic acid.

ASTEROID: Any of thousands of small objects that revolve around the sun.

ASTHMA: Asthma is a common disease in which the circular smooth muscles of the branching air tubes of the lungs, the bronchi, are liable to go into spasms so that the bronchi are narrowed and the passage of air impeded.

ATOM: A small particle with a nucleus with a positive charge and a negatively charged electron. Two major particles in the nucleus are protons and neutrons.
 
 

BACTERIA: A large group of typically unicellular microscopic organisms consisting of the class schizomycetes distributed in air, water, and oil.

BAT: Flying mammal with membranous wings extending from the forelimbs to the hind limbs or tail.

BEAKER: A glass or metal container with a beak like edge for pouring.

BLOOD CELL: Any of the cells or corpuscles contained in blood.

BLACK RHINOCEROS: Scientific Name ( Diceros bicorris), an aggressive animal that lives in Africa. It will attack when challenged. They are famous for their horns. Human poachers have killed many for their horns. Their horns are worth up to thousands of dollars in Asia for alleged medical property.

BINOCULAR VISION: Stereoscopic vision that provides primates with a three dimensional view of the world.

BIOENGINEERING: The study of a humans genes and DNA of a person’s body.

BRAIN: The part of the central nervous system in the vertebrate cranium that is responsible for in interpretation of sensory impulses.

BUOYANT FORCE: The upward force exerted on an object when it is completely immersed in a fluid.
 
 

CALCIUM: An Alkaline earth element used in the manufacturing of metals and alloys, found naturally only in compounds like limestone or chalk. It is an essential element of bones and teeth. The atomic number is 20; the symbol is Ca, the atomic mass is 40.078.

CARBON DIOXIDE: Colorless, odorless, combustible gas consisting of carbon atom and two oxygen atoms. Carbon dioxide is formed during respiration as a waste product of the body.

CARNIVORE: An ordinary mammal that feeds on flesh and generally has sharp teeth.

CAVITY: A hole or a hollow place (within body, on a tooth) a hole in the tooth.

CODEINE: Derivative of opium- white crystalline solid; slightly soluble in water and in
organic solvents used to reduce pain and to suppress coughing.

COMET: A bright heavenly body with a star like center surrounded by a nebulous cloud
and often with a cloudy tail always directed away from the sun.

COMPOST: A mixture of decomposing organic vegetation.

COMPUTER: A high speed electronic device that processes data.

COPPER: Copper is a brownish red metallic element that is one of the transition
elements on the Periodic table. It's symbol is Cu and it's atomic number is 29.

CITRIC ACID: A white, odorless acid with a sour taste, found in the juices of oranges, lemons, limes, and similar fruits. It is also formed in the metabolism of cells during the Krebs cycle.

DEFORESTATION: Although the Institute for Environmental Research in the Amazon (IPAM) estimates that around seventy percent of fires happen in previously deforested areas, this leaves approximately a third of them in pristine or secondary forest. An increase in burning is likely to produce an increase in the rate of deforestation.

DETERGENT: An organic salt similar to soap except that detergents do not form soap scum in hard water.

DEXTROSE: See glucose. Grape sugar, corn sugar or blood sugar is a simple sugar, which is found widely distributed in nature!

DIFFRACTION: Where sound is heard from above the water to below the water, the sound waves down in the water.

DIODE: An electron tube of high vacuum type with a cold anode and a heated cathode used as a rectifier of alternating current, a demodulator.

DISC: A thin, flat, circular plate coated with ferromagnetic particles, on which computer data can be saved.

DNA: Molecule found in the chromosomes of cell that determines the traits of organisms. (deoxyribonucleic acid).

DORSAL: Upper side of an organism that has bilateral symmetry.

DOWN FEATHER:  Short, fluffy feather that traps warm air close to a bird's body.

DRUG: Any substance that causes a change in the body.
 
 

EGG: A female reproductive cell that is capable of union with a sperm cell, resulting in the beginning of a new organism.

ELECTRICITY: Electric current in atmosphere, property of certain fundamental particles of all matter as electrons and protons or positrons.

ELECTROMAGNET: A temporary magnet formed when an electric current is passed through a wire coil that surrounds an iron coil.

ELEMENT : A substance composed of identical atoms.

ENERGY: The ability to cause change.

ENZYME (hydrolic: large proteins that speed up chemical reactions)- Hydrolic enzymes accelerate reactions in which a substance is broken down into simpler compounds through the reaction with water molecules.

EPIDERMIS: Outermost layer of the skin in vertebrates having no blood vessels and consisting of several layers of cells covering the dermis.

EUCALYPTUS: To cover conceal; whence any of genus of tall, aromatic chiefly Austrian evergreen trees of the Myrtle family bearing pendent leaves and umbrellas of white or pink flowers and valued for their timber, gum , and oil.

EVAPORATION: The process by witch a liquid changes to a gas.
 
 

FERMENTATION: The breakdown of complex molecules in organic compounds.

FERRIC: Of or containing iron.

FLATWORM: Simple animal with bilateral symmetry belonging to the phylum Platyhelminthes.

FLUORESCENT: Emission of electromagnetic radiation especially visible light, resulting from the absorption of incident radiation and persisting only as long as the stimulating radiation is continued.

FIBULA: The outer and thinner of the two bones in the human lower leg.

FILARIA: Any of a large group of threadlike parasitic nematode worms.

FIRE: A rapid chemical change.

FOOL’S GOLD: A shiny, bright-yellow, ductile and malleable, metallic element which resists alteration.

FORCE: A push or pull of gravity.

FUNGUS: Organism made of eukaryotic cells with cell walls that get its food by
absorbing organic substances.
 
 

GALAXY: A large group of stars held together by gravity.

GAMETE: Specialized reproductive cell involved in sexual reproduction.

GASTROINTESTINAL: High gas levels in your stomach.

GLUE: Substance that bonds objects together.

GLACIER: Large bodies if ice, move across the surface of the earth.

GLAND: A structure organ with specialized cells that secretes/excretes a substance that is unrelated to the normal metabolic processes.

GOLD: A heavy yellowish metallic chemical element with a high degree of ductility and malleability.

GRAVITY: It is a force between two bodies.

GREEN ALGAE:. A class of bright grass-green algae living mainly in fresh water. Green algae have definite nuclei and chloroplasts.
 
 

HALLUCINOGEN: Drug that affects a users view of reality.

HALOGEN: Any of the five nonmetallic chemical elements in group 17: chlorine, fluorine, bromine, astatine, and iodine.

HAIL: Small, roughly spherical lumps of approximately concentric shells of clear ice and compact snow collectively, that are precipitated during thunderstorms.

HELIUM: A lightweight gas and chemical element.

HEMOGLOBIN: Red iron containing pigment in red blood cells of vertebrates.

HORMONE: Chemical substance produced in one part of an organism that affects another part of the organism.

HISTAMINE: Chemical released from mast cells when allergy causing antigens attach themselves to mast cells.

HIV: Human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS.

HYDROELECTRIC: Having to do with the production of, electricity by waterpower or by the friction of water or steam.

HYDROGEN: A tasteless odorless gas and one of the most important chemical elements.
 
 

IONOSPHERE: The outer part of the earths atmosphere.
 
 

JACK: A socket that accepts a plug at one end and attaches to electrical circuitry at the other.

JADE: A hard, compact, lustrous gemstone consisting of either jabeite or hephrite.

JAGUAR: A large yellowish brown black spotted animal of the cat family found from Texas to Paraguay.

JARGON: Used by a special group of occupational class usually only partially understood by outsiders. Special vocabulary of medicine, law, banking, and science.

JAUNDICE : A symptom where the skin turns yellow because of the accumulation of bilarubin in the skin. This is most often caused by liver and gallbladder disorders.

JET PROPULSION: The engine moves forward by reacting to the momentum of air of gaseous material being forced out of the back of the engine.

JOINT: A joint of two things or parts so as to admit of motion, an articulation, whether movable or not, a hinge, as the knee joint, a node joint or joint of a stem, a ball and socket joint.

JOULE: The basic unit of energy and work.

JOULE JAMES PRESTO: 1818 -89 physicist who determined the relationship between heat energy and mechanical energy and discovered the first law thermometer in vision of the low of conservation of energy the joule (a unit of work energy).

JUPITER: The 5^th planet from the sun, and the largest planet in the solar system, named for the ruler of the gods in Roman mythology.
 
 

KINETIC ENERGY: Kinetic comes from the Greek word that means to move and energy is the ability to move. Kinetic energy is the ability to do work. The greater the mass and speed of an object the more kinetic energy there will be.

KEVLAR: A very strong material commonly used in bulletproof vests.

KEY: Implement used to open a lock.

KINGDOM: Group of closely related phyla.

KREBS CYCLE: Containing series of reactions in cellular respiration that produces CO2, NADH, and FADH2.
 
 

LABORATORY: A room or building equipped for scientific research.

LASER: A device that emits a very narrow and intense beam of coherent light or other radiation of a single wavelength either continuously, or impulses; an optical laser.

LENS: A piece of glass or other transparent material which focuses or spreads the rays of two opposite surfaces, either both cured or one plane and one curved and are used alone or in optical instruments.

LEPROSY : Is a chronic infectious disease that affects the skin, peripheral nerves and mucous membranes. Leprosy is also known as Hansen’s disease because GA Hansen discovered the bacillus, which causes it, in 1873.

LIGHT BULB:    A device that provides light by use of electricity and a filament.

LIGHTNING: A discharge of negative and positive electricity between clouds leaving a bright flash of light in the sky.
 
 

MAGNESIUM: A light , silvery moderately hard metallic element. It is used in structural alloys, pyrotechnics flash photography, and incedinary bombs. Its atomic number is 12 and the atomic; weight is 24.312.

MARIJUANA: The hemp plant, Indian hemp; cannabis a drug made from its dried leaves and flowers smoked in cigarettes to produce a narcotic like effect; hashish.

MARS: Fourth planet from the sun. Mars has a reddish color and at times is the third brightest object in the sky with a Diameter of 6,780 square miles.

MASS: A quantity of matter forming a body of indefinite shape and sizes usually a relatively large size lump.

McCORMICK: A small astronomy center.

METAL: They usually have a shiny surface and are generally good conductors and they are also found on the left side of the periodic table.

MILK WAY: Very large and the nebulae as small objects clustered about it.

MINE BOGGLER: Helps detect mines and other resources.

MOLECULE: The smallest unit of matter of a substance that retains all the physical and chemical properties of that substance, consisting of a single atom or a group of atoms bonded together; e.g., NE, H2, H2O. (Formed from a Latin phrase meaning literally "a tiny mass.")

MONKEY: A mostly long tailed animal with various sizes and colors.
 
 

NEON: A rare, colorless, insert gaseous chemical element, found in small qualities in the earths atmosphere and used in discharge tubes.

NEUTRON: An elementary particle with no electric charge that occurs in the nucleus of every atom.

NUCLEAR BOMBS: An in which the splitting of atomic nuclei results in an explosion of a devastating force and heat, accompanied by a blinding light.

NUCLEOLUS: Function in the synthesis of ribosomes.

NUTRITION: Substance in food that provide energy and material for the development, growth, and repair of cells.
 
 

ORDER: Group of closely related families.

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE: The first effective birth control pills.

OPIATE: Powerful drug produced from the opium poppy.

OXYGEN- Chemical element symbol O. Oxygen in 1772. Oxygen is a colorless odorless reactive gas capable of combining.

OZONE: Is a form of oxygen that is present in the earths atmosphere in small amount.
 
 

PARASITE: Organism that lives and feeds inside or attached to a host.

PATHOGEN: An organism that causes diseases, such as a virus, bacterium, fungus, or parasite.

PETROLEUM: An oily liquid that develops naturally below the grounds surface, used in products such as gasoline, fuel, oil and kerosene.

PHOTOSYNTHESIS: It is a process when autographs make their own food and use the energy in light, carbon dioxide, and water.

POLAR BEAR:  A bear that lives in the artic regions, that is adapted to live in cold environments.

POTASSIUM: A soft, silver-white metallic element that occurs in nature only in compounds; is essential for the growth of plants.

PROJECTILE:  Anything that is shot through the air or space.

PROSTATE:  A large gland surrounding the male urethra, just below the bladder.

PROTEIN : Any of a group of complex organic compound containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and usually sulfur.

PROTIST : A unicellular eukaryotic organism belonging to the kingdom Protista.

PYRIDOXINE HYDROCHLORIDE:  A type of vitamin B that is essential to human nutrition.
 
 

QUADRATE BONE: One of the pair of bones in birds, fishes, amphibians, and reptiles that joins the lower jaw to the skull.

QUANTITY: Something having magnitude, or size, extent, amount, etc.

QUARTIC: A quantity, equation, or function of the fourth degree.

QUEEN: A fully developed female in a colony of insects, such as bees or ants, that lay eggs.

QUICKSAND: A shifting mass of very deep, soft, wet sand that yields easily to pressure and will not hold up a heavy object but slowly engulfs it.
 
 

RADAR: Short for radio detection and ranging, can determine a flying object position long before it comes into sight.

RADIATION: Is the transfer of energy by invisible waves from the sun to the earth.

RADIO: Receiving set, one adapted for receiving the waves of the assigned frequencies.

RADIO ACTIVE: Emission of particles on gamma rays from the nucleus of an atom that is unstable and radioactive.

RADISH: An annual plant and part of the vegetable group in the food pyramid.

RECYCLING: A process by which a solid material can be processed and used again.

RESPIRATION: Process that involves oxygen and breaks down food molecules to release energy.

RETINA: The back of the eye where light is projected and which it’s transformed into electrical impulses and transformed to the brain via the optic nerve.

ROBITUSSIN: Cold and flu relief.

ROCKET: A cyndrical device containing a combustible substance that when lit it explodes it sends the object high into the air or into space depending on which kind of rocket it is.
 
 

SILVER: White lustrous metallic element that conducts heat and electricity better than any other metal (symbol – Ag).

SNOW: Water vapor frozen into hexagon crystals that fall on the earth.

SOLAR CELL: Small electrical cells that convert sunlight into electrical energy.

SOLAR SYSTEM: The sun together with the nine planets and all other celestial bodies that orbit the sun.

SONIC BARRIER: A sudden increase in air resistance met by an aircraft or projectile as it nears the speed of sound.

SPACE EXPLORATION: Investigation of planets, stars, and space through the use of satellites, spacecraft, and probes built by human beings.

SPACE PEN: A pen that can write in any direction and in the water.

STARDUST: A NASA spacecraft that will fly headlong into the tail of a comet and return to Earth with a sample.

SUCROSE: A crystalline disaccharide carbohydrate obtained chiefly from sugar cane
and sugar beet and is widely used as a sweetener.

SWEAT: To give forth a characteristic, salty moisture through the pores of the skin; perspire.
 
 

TEAMWORKING TELESCOPE: Four large and three smaller telescopes all working together to produce images equivalent to those that would be produced by a much bigger single telescope.

TELEVISION: The television allows people to know what’s going on in their society without having to leave their homes. It also allows us to watch movies, etc.

TERMINAL VELOCITY: The greatest velocity reached by a falling object.

THERMAL ENERGY: The total energy of particles in a material, including both kinetic and potential energy. Having to do with heat.

THERMOMETER:  Device to measure temperature; can be measured in Celsius, Fahrenheit, or Kelvin.

TITANIUM: A strong, lightweight silver-gray metallic element accruing in rutit, borite and various other minerals.

TOPOGRAPHY: The description of arts and applied sciences as they develop in history.

TOXIN: Poison.

TRIODE:  An electron tube.

TUNDRA: Northernmost lane biome covered by mosses, lichens, and grasses and characterized by permafrost.
 
 

UNDERGROUND: The surface under the earth’s main ground.

UREMIA: Abnormal retention of the blood.

URINARY BLADDER: Organ, which contains urine.

UMBRELLA: Object that repels water.
 
 

VCR: A VCR stands for: Video Cassette Recorder. A VCR lets you enjoy a movie at your own home with out having to go to a movie theater.

VELOCITY: The rate of motion in a specific direction.

VERTEBRATE: An animal that has a backbone, the opposite of invertebrate.

VOLUME: The amount of space occupied by an object its SI unit is the cubic meter.

VIDEO CAMERA: It’s an object that can record things that are happening in front of you.
 
 

WATCH: Object that tells time and is worn on the wrist.

WATER: A colorless, tasteless, odorless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, freezing at 0 degrees and boiling at 100 degrees Celsius.

WATER CYCLE: Movement of water from the atmosphere to the Earth and back to the atmosphere.

WEATHER: The condition of the air or atmosphere in terms of humidity, temperature, wind, and similar features.

WEIGHT: The amount of the pull of gravity on a mass.

WETLAND: A low-lying area characterized by standing water for much or all of the year. A swamp or marsh.

WHALE: Large mammals that live entirely under water.

WHITE BLOOD CELL: Blood cell produced in bone marrow that protects the body against invasion by foreign cells or substances.

WHORL: In plants, a circle of leaves or flower parts.

WITHDRAWAL: Stopping the use of a drug.
 
 

XANTHOPHYLL: A yellow pigment, one of chlorophyll pigments found in certain chromoplasts.

X-CHROMOSOME: A sex chromosome present singly in human males and as a pair in females.

XEROPHYTE: A plant that requires very little water to live.

X-RAYS : Invisible high-energy electromagnetic radiation of great penetrating power; waves with shortest wavelengths and the highest energy.

XYLEM: Vascular tissue that provides support to a plant and conducts water from the roots to all parts of plant.
 
 

YARD: A customary measure of length equal to 36 inches or 0.9144 meter.

YEAR: The period of revolution around the sun.

YOLK: The yellow, internal part of an egg of a bird or reptile, surrounded by the albumen, and nourishes for the young before it is hatched.

YTTRIUM: Yttrium, Y, is a transition metallic element found in Group IIIa of the periodic table. Atomic Number : 39 Relative Atomic Mass : 88.91
 
 

ZINC: Is from Group 12 of the periodic table. Zinc combines with oxygen in the air form thin protective coating of zinc oxide on the surface of the metal.

ZYGOTE: Fertilized egg cell.

ZOOSPORE: Haploid cell involved in asexual reproduction in algae.

ZONE OF MATURATION: Region in plants in which newly lengthened cells differentiate.

ZONE OF ELONGATION: Area where cell enlargement occurs in plants.