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Concepts

Photo of a Kererū with it's mouth full of karaka berry.

Concept

Adaptation

View looking down from Earth's atmosphere at clouds.

Concept

Atmosphere

Water molecules holding on tightly diagram.

Concept

Atoms and molecules

2 sharks underwater, insert of possible toxin bioaccumulation

Concept

Bioaccumulation

Black coral underwater in Fiordland, New Zealand.

Concept

Biodiversity

Cell diagram showing mitochondria.

Concept

Cells

Modelling glacial ice melt with ice cubes and water.

Concept

Changes of matter

Row of beakers containing a range of common materials to test pH

Concept

Chemical reactions

This image represents tuatara classification.

Concept

Classification

Fish underwater in the Goat Island Marine Reserve, NZ.

Concept

Ecosystem

Scientist's outside experiment with Tesla coil causing lightning

Concept

Electricity

Diagram of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Concept

Electromagnetic spectrum

Oven Gas burner with purple/blue flames.

Concept

Energy

Modern copies of ancient skulls in boxes in a lab in France.

Concept

Evolution

Diagram of a Marine food web.

Concept

Food webs

Female Skateboarder on a skateboard park + silicon nitride balls

Concept

Force and movement

Close up of a blue human iris - eye.

Concept

Genetics

Two astronauts outside the Space Shuttle with Earth behind them

Concept

Gravity

A basking common skink on a rock in captivity.

Concept

Habitat

Image of Killer T cells (or cytotoxic T cells).

Concept

Immune system

Diagram of the lines of magnetic force around a bar magnet.

Concept

Magnetism

Fern koru in wild in New Zealand

Concept

Māramatanga Māori

Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing of the Vitruvian Man (c. 1847).

Concept

Measurement

Earth's globe showing the very long flight path of godwit E7

Concept

Migration

A healthy human lymphatic system illustration.

Concept

Models in science

Molecule-sized gears on outside of a carbon nanotube shaft.

Concept

Nanoscience

Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica book

Concept

Newton's laws

A cutaway tulip flower.

Concept

Pollination

Diagram of pressure drag over different shapes.

Concept

Pressure

Diagram illustrating heat and change of state.

Concept

Properties of matter

Diagram of water molecules in ice, liquid and vapor.

Concept

States of matter

Mycorrhizal fungi colonising a root.

Concept

Symbiosis

Diagram showing Earth's three types of plate boundaries

Concept

Tectonic plates

Waves bouncing off cliffs.

Concept

Waves

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