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=Conservation -= the protection of a resource such as water, soil, coal, endangered animals, air, etc.
 * As we venture into our science curriculum for our Rock Star year, we will modify this page with links, videos, and updated information as we talk about each vocabulary word as it is introduced in class. Highlighted words will be those that we have studied extensively and have provided additional factors that demonstrate what we have learned. **

=Resource= something that we use to help us

=[|Testable Hypotheses]-= these are hypothesis that can be proven right or wrong, they are not research or demonstration.

=Conclusions-= was your hypothesis right or wrong? It’s not the answer necessarily, but an explanation of your hypothesis and the outcome.

=Strengths-= the benefits or good things about an experiment

=Weaknesses-= the hindrances or bad things about an experiment, things that could be better.

=Models-= a 2D or 3D representation of something else. Usually represents something much too small, like a cell or something much to big like the universe or Earth.

=Limitations-= similar to weakness, but things that keep a model from being what it should

=Microscopes-= used to see things that are too small to see with the naked eye

Sound Recorders- keep track of sounds that we hear live

=Hand lenses= help us see an object a little closer that with our naked eye, but not as well as a microscope

=Thermometers-= used to measure temperature

=Food Chain= A hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food. media type="youtube" key="sbWyrcY5i3s" height="285" width="340"

=Food Web= a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains. =Photosynthesis= The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water. Photosynthesis in plants generally involves the green pigment chlorophyll and generates oxygen as a byproduct. media type="youtube" key="rnIOTMpydpg" height="285" width="340" media type="youtube" key="C1_uez5WX1o" height="285" width="340" =Chlorophyll= A green pigment, present in all green plants responsible for the absorption of light to provide energy for photosynthesis.

Compasses- used to show/find directions

Balances- used to find the mass of an object

Hot plates- used in a lab to heat objects

Meter sticks- used for measuring, the metric equivalent to a ruler

Timing devices- used to keep track of time that is too specific to do on our own

Magnets- used to find out if an object is magnetic or not, magnets can be used to create an electromagnet because they conduct electricity

Collecting nets- used to collect live animals or plants

Safety goggles- used in labs to protect the face from foreign objects

Reliability- it’s usefulness and ability to be used correctly

Cycles- a process that repeats over and over with no end

Structures- parts of a whole

Daily cycles- these would include the tides that there are 4 of daily, two day and two night, the sun rising and setting, as well as the moon rising and setting.

Weekly cycles- includes the days of the week

Lunar cycles- the waxing and waning of the moon. Waxing when the amount of light being reflected is “ growing”, Waning when the amount of light being reflect is “shrinking” The phases are New Moon, Waxing Cresent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter, Waning Crescent, New Moon………

Seasonal Cycles- Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall etc.

=Water Cycle-= Includes evaporation, condensation, precipitation, accumulation……….. media type="youtube" key="YswL4dIDQuk" height="211" width="243" media type="youtube" key="1O6CHQ94ecs" height="364" width="445"media type="youtube" key="Yw275056JtA" height="202" width="230" align="left"

media type="custom" key="4544990" Evaporation- when a liquid turns to a gas ex. Water to water vapor

Condensation- when a gas turns back into a liquid ex. Water vapor to water. In the Water Cycle clouds form because of this

Precipitation- when water falls back to the earth as a solid or liquid, ex. Rain, sleet, snow, hail, ice

Accumulation- when precipitated matter gathers in one large body ex. Puddle, lake, river, ocean etc.

=Carbon Cycle-= Animals inhale oxygen use it and exhale carbon dioxide. Plants take in carbon dioxide, use it, clean it, and let out oxygen…….. media type="youtube" key="jNIQ9KTMimQ" height="290" width="355" Nitrogen Cycle- Plants take nitrogen from the soil, the nitrogen grows into the plant, the plant gets eaten by an animal and the animal takes the nitrogen, the animals processes it and leaves the nitrogen behind in it’s waste, the nitrogen from the waste seeps into the soil and it starts all over…

Life Cycles- birth(hatching), growth, maturity(adult), decline, death……

=Plants= seed, germination, growth, pollination by animal or wind or self………. Part 1 media type="youtube" key="2OfuiX5RnoY" height="285" width="340" Part 2 media type="youtube" key="WZcbe8CBijY" height="285" width="340" Part 3 media type="youtube" key="5ktE20lJNSs" height="285" width="340"

Metamorphosis- changes that an animal goes through butterfly, beetle, cricket, bird, frog

Incomplete Metamorphosis- beetle, cricket, bird

Complete Metamorphosis- frog, butterfly

Physical Properties- properties or characteristics that can be seen, felt, smelt etc. Properties that are unchanging.

Magnetism- the ability to be attracted to a magnet Physical State- solid liquid or gas

Solid- permanent shape and volume

Liquid- permanent volume but not shape

Gas- neither is permanent

Conduct- let flow through. Ex. Metals, glass, water

Insulators- do not let flow through. Ex. Wood, some plastics

Solution- a mixture in which the solid is dispersed evenly into the liquid ex. Dissolving sugar or salt into water.

Mixture- when two or more objects are combined and can be re-separated

Boiling Point- the temperature at which a liquid changes to a gas. Ex. Water 212F and 100C

Melting Point- the temperature at which a solid changes to a liquid Ex. Water 212F and 100C

Freezing Point- the temperature at which a liquid changes to a solid Ex. Water 32F and 0c

Constant- never changing

Reflected- to bounce back, like a ball of a wall, mirrors and tinted windows reflect light

Refracted- to bend, like in cameras, telescopes and eyeglasses

Electrical Circuits- a complete path that can be used to produce light, heat, sound, magnetism

Sound- created by vibrations and travels in waves

Adaptations- things that help and organism survive or reproduce

Ecosystem- the environment that includes all living and nonliving things

=Biomes= media type="custom" key="4550578"

Organisms- any living things, all plants and animals

Niche- pronounced Knee*sh, an organisms specific job or role or home in an ecosystem, what it does

Inherited- a parent passes to an offspring, hair or eye color, height etc.

Learned- characteristics that are learned from watching or being taught

Weathering- the breakdown of rocks into sediments

Erosion- the moving of sediments from one place to another

Deposition- the dropping or placing of sediments in a new place

Dissolving- wearing away over time

Flow- a movement

Tree Rings- grow one ring for each year of their life, thicker rings represent good climate and growing conditions, thin rings represent bad climate such as drought

Sedimentary Rock Sequences- the oldest rock is at the bottom and the newest at the top, fossils found there can be compared by the level they are found in

Renewable Resources- resources that can be quickly replaced such as air, water, animals, plants and soil

Nonrenewable Resources- resources that cannot be quickly replaced such as oil, coal, natural gas, and minerals

Inexhaustible Resources- resources that we never fun out of due to natural events such as the sun, tides and wind

Constructive Forces- build up new landforms such as volcanic eruptions and deposition

Destructive Forces- tear down existing landforms such as weathering, floods, tsunamis, landslides, earthquakes etc.

Physical characteristics of the Earth- rocky, water, gravity, hills, valleys, dunes, wind, oxygen

Physical characteristics of the Moon- rocky, hills, valleys, dunes

Gravity- the force that pulls things down to the Earth, it keeps us on the Earth, it keeps the moon revolving around us in orbit, it keeps us revolving around the sun in orbit

Rotate- to spin on it’s axis, the Earth rotates every 24 hours

Revolve- to move/orbit completely around something, the Earth revolves around the sun every 365 ¼ days and the moon revolves around the Earth every 28 or so days creating the lunar cycle =Instinct=

=Innate Behavior= The effect when an animal or human is exposed to a stimuls

=Stimulus= =Reflex= =Learned Behavior= =Conditioning= Conditioning is The process of modifying a person's behavior.

=Nature vs. Nuture=

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