List of Words for Letter ‘B’
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balanced forces Forces that act together on an object without changing its motion.
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barometer A device for measuring air pressure.
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base A substance that tastes bitter and turns red litmus paper blue.
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benthos Organisms that live on the bottom in aquatic ecosystems.
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bilateral symmetry A body plan in which an organism can be divided along only one plane of its body to produce two mirror images.
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biome One of Earth’s large ecosystems, with its own kind of climate, soil, plants, and animals. An object whose gravity is so strong that light cannot escape it.
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black hole An object whose gravity is
so strong that light cannot escape it.
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blizzard A snowstorm with 35-mile-perhour winds and enough snowfall that you can only see up to one quarter of a mile.
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boiling point The temperature at which a substance changes state from a liquid to a gas. The upward push of a liquid or gas on an object placed in it.
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buoyancy The upward push of a liquid or gas on an object placed in it.