Términos

Buildings or complexes having facilities or housing institutions dedicated to the practice or study of an area or areas of science.

Museums containing collections dealing with the development and application of science, scientific ideas, technology, and instrumentation. Like museums of natural science and natural history, science museums have their origins in the Enlightenment. Some of them developed from the collections of learned societies, others from private collections

Buildings housing museums containing collections dealing with the development and application of science, scientific ideas, technology, and instrumentation.

Buildings in which science is taught, often containing laboratories or other hands-on learning and research facilities.

Structures housing facilities and institutions dedicated to science.

People or corporate bodies who specialize in making scientific instruments, which are crafted instruments used for scientific purposes and research, in all branches of science.

Rooms, buildings, or groups of buildings specifically equipped with apparatus for scientific experiments.

Scientific facilities used as bases from which research is carried out or monitored.

Genus containing 120 to 300 species (depending upon the classification) of annual or perennial aquatic, grasslike species growing in ponds, marshes, and lakes. They bear solitary or small clustered spikes. Their stems are often used to weave strong mats, baskets, and chair seats. Bulrushes may act as a filter, absorbing poisonous metals and toxic microorganisms, thus helping to reduce water pollution. The taxonomy of the genus is complex and currently under review, which will likely result in some species being moved to other genera. In English translations of the Bible, the term "bulrush" is mistakenly used to refer to the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus. In Britain, the term "bulrush" is sometimes used to refer to species of genus Typha.

Family containing 50 genera and 268 species of small rodents; the term "squirrel" is derived from the Greek "skiouros," meaning "shade tail," which describes one of the animals' most conspicuous and recognizable features.

Genus containing over 30 living species of tree squirrels, including the common, bushy-tailed squirrels in North and South America, Europe, and parts of Asia.

Members of a species of tree squirrel that is the largest in size among species native to western North America. They are relatively shy, and will generally run up a tree and give a hoarse barking call when disturbed.

Members of a species of gregarious tree squirrel native to the eastern United States excluding New England, north into the southern prairie provinces of Canada, and west to the Dakotas, Colorado, and Texas. Their habitat partially overlaps with the eastern gray squirrel, which is smaller and not as reddish in color as the fox squirrel. Fox squirrels are noted as living fossils, skeletally very similar the oldest known squirrel, Protosciurus, from the late Oligocene and early Miocene epochs.

Family of wading birds, including sandpipers, curlews, and snipes.

Members of a family containing over 2,000 species in around 25 genera of beetles, that are small, cylindrical in shape, brown or black in color, and bore into a tree to form an egg chamber. A few species are destructive to live trees, although most live in dead or dying wood.

Small, earthwork fortifications in the form of an entrenched earthen rectangle, square, or pentagon that were used mostly in Northern Europe from the late middle ages until the 19th century.

A reddish-brown leather usually made from sheepskin that is vegetable tanned. A decorative pattern is applied by sandwiching the leather between a heated metal plate and a mold.

People who keep record of scores, particularly those who act as officials in games or sports contests.

Members of an order including around 1,400 species of arachnids having a pair of large nippers and a general resemblance to a miniature lobster; they inhabit tropical and warm temperate countries in both hemispheres.