Statistics for Science Vocabulary #3

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Definitiona	Word	% Correct
Describes an animal that is primarily active at night	Nocturnal	91%
How a liquid becomes a gas	Evaporation	89%
Group of stars bound together by gravity	Galaxy	89%
The fourth state of matter. The sun is made of it.	Plasma	81%
Half of the earth or half of the brain	Hemisphere	78%
The plants and animals at the bottom of the ocean's food chain	Plankton	77%
Rock from which minerals can be economically extracted	Ore	74%
Approximately 6.02 x 10²³ atoms	Mole	70%
How bats navigate using sound	Echolocation	68%
One of two veins that return blood from the head to the heart	Jugular	67%
Organism that has both male and female sex organs	Hermaphrodite	63%
Type of plant, such as soybeans or lentils, whose fruit comes in a pod	Legume	62%
Metal with the highest melting point, used in lightbulb filaments	Tungsten	62%
Variation of an atom that has a different number of neutrons	Isotope	59%
The division of a cell nucleus and the copying of the genome	Mitosis	58%
Describes trees that lose their leaves in the winter	Deciduous	56%
A planet which exists outside of our Solar System	Exoplanet	45%
Half the distance between the crest and trough of a wave	Amplitude	40%
Capable of being pulled or stretched into a thin wire	Ductile	28%
The percentage of light that is reflected from a surface	Albedo	13%