List of Words for Letter ‘C’
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calorie The
amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1°C. One thousand calories equals one food Calorie.
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camouflage An
appearance that makes something look like its surroundings.
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carrier An
organism that has inherited the gene for a specific trait but does not express that trait.
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cartilage A
soft, bone-like material that is part of the endoskeleton of an animal.
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cell The
basic unit of life and the smallest part of a living thing that is capable of life.
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cell cycle The
ongoing process of growth, division, and replacement within cells.
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cellular respiration The
process in which organisms convert the energy in molecules of glucose into usable energy.
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chain reaction A
reaction in which the products keep the reaction going.
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chemical bond Forces
that hold atoms together.
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chemical change A
change in matter that produces a new substance with different properties from the original.
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chemical equation A
way to represent a chemical reaction by using symbols for the amounts of reactants and products in the change.
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chemical property The
way a substance reacts with other substances.
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chordate An
animal with a nerve cord running down its back.
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chromosome One
of the threadlike structures in the nucleus of a cell that stores detailed directions for the cell’s activities.
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circulation The
movement of important materials such as oxygen, glucose, and wastes throughout the body.
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climate The
average weather pattern of a region over time.
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climax community The
final stage of succession when a community is stabilized and succession is slow or at a stop.
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clone A
living organism that receives all of its DNA from one parent and is genetically identical to that parent.
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clouds Collections of water vapor in the atmosphere which are described as high, middle, or low, depending on the altitude at which they form. Examples include stratus clouds, cumulus clouds, and cirrus clouds.
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cold-blooded A type of animal whose body temperature changes with the temperature of its surroundings.
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colloid A stable homogeneous mixture in which very small, fine particles of one material are scattered through another material, blocking the passage of light without settling out.
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comet A
sphere of ice and rock that orbits the Sun.
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community All
the populations that live together in the same place.
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competition The
struggle among organisms for resources in an ecosystem.
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compound A
new substance formed by the chemical combination of two or more elements.
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compound machine A
device that is a combination of two or more simple machines.
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compression An
area where particles in a medium are pushed together by a wave’s energy.
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compressional wave A
wave that moves matter back and forth as it travels through a medium.
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concave A
surface that curves inward.
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condensation The
changing of a gas into a liquid as heat is removed.
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conduction The
movement of energy such as heat or electricity through direct contact.
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conjugation A
form of sexual reproduction in which organisms fuse, or attach themselves to each other, and exchange genetic information.
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constellation A
group of stars that appears to form a pattern.
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consumer An
organism that does not make its own food.
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continental drift The
slow movement of the continents over eons.
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convection The
transfer of energy by the flow of a liquid or a gas.
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convection cell A circular
pattern of rising air, sinking air, and winds.
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convex A surface that curves outward.
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core The central part of Earth.
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Coriolis effect The
shift in winds to the right or left caused by Earth’s rotation.
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crater A
depression in the Moon’s surface formed by the impact of objects from space.
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crust A
solid that has a structure arranged in orderly, fixed patterns.
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crystal A solid that has a structure
arranged in orderly, fixed patterns.
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current The movement of the oceans’ surface water that is caused by global winds.
In electricity, current is the flow of
electrons moving through a circuit.