A tool used to observe very small objects and organisms

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Hand lens

• A tool used to observe very small objects and
  organisms

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Metric Ruler or Meter Stick

• A tool used to measure the length of an object or
  the distance an object may have traveled.
• Units meters, centimeters, or millimeters

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Microscope

• An instrument for observing objects too small to
  be seen with a hand lens

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Thermometer

• A tool for measuring temperature
• Units Celsius

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Graduated Cylinder

• A tool for measuring the volume of liquid
• Units milliliter (ml)

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Beaker

• A tool for measuring the volume of liquid
• Units milliliter (ml)

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Goggles

• A tool for protecting eyes during a Science
  experiment

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Apron

• An apron is used to protect your body and clothes
  during a Science experiment

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Balance

• It is used to measure the mass of an object.
• Unit Grams

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Compass

• A tool that shows the direction that one is going

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Magnet

• A tool that can attract metal, such as iron or
  steel

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Hot plate

• A device used to heat up liquids or solutions in
  a Science classroom.

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Timer

• A tool used to measure intervals of time.
• Units seconds, minutes, or hours

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Gloves

• These go on your hands to protect them when you
  are handling chemicals or touching hot objects.

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Extinguisher
Fire

• Tool used for putting out small fires

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Hazard

• A source of danger

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Precaution

• A measure taken beforehand to prevent harm

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Tongs

• A tool used in Science to hold onto hot objects
  while they are heated.

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Experiment

• A procedure carried out under controlled
  conditions in order to discover something or to
  test a hypothesis.

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Hypothesis

• An educated guess about how an experiment will
  turn out.
• A hypothesis can be proven right or wrong through
  an experiment.

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Data

• A collection of facts or numbers gathered during
  an experiment.
• Usually arranged in a chart or data table.

Trial Distance Traveled (cm)
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Graph

• A picture used to represent the data collected
  during an experiment.
• There are many types
• Pictographs
• Bar graphs
• Circle graphs
• Line graphs

This is a bar graph.
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Scientific Model

• A visual representation of Science concepts
• All models have limitations, this means they are
  not 100 correct as the real concept they are
  representing.

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Conclusion

• A closing statement based upon the data collected
  during an experiment.
• Usually the hypothesis is stated to see if it was
  right or wrong in the conclusion.

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Experimental Trials

• Scientists repeat their experiments many times to
  make sure the results are valid and reliable.

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Recycle

• Reprocessing of materials, such as, plastic,
  glass, metal, paper so they can be reused.

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Conservation

• The protection, preservation, and wise use of
  natural resources.

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Matter

• Anything that takes up space (volume) and has
  mass.

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Mass

• The measure of the amount of matter in an object.
• Units
• Grams
• Milligrams
• kilograms

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Volume

• How much space something takes up

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Solid

• Phase or State of matter that has a definite
  shape and a definite volume

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Liquid

• Phase or State of matter that does NOT have a
  definite shape, but has a definite volume.

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Gas

• Phase or State of matter that does not have a
  definite shape or a definite volume.

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Melting Point

• The temperature at which a substance changes from
  its solid state into its liquid state.

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Freezing Point

• The temperature at which a substance changes from
  a liquid to a solid.

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Boiling Point

• The particular temperature when a substance
  changes from a liquid to a gas.

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Evaporation

• A liquid changes phase into a gas.
• Opposite of Condensation.

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Condensation

• A gas changes phases and turns into a liquid.
• Opposite of Evaporation.

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Physical Properties

• Characteristics of matter that can be observed or
  measured without chemically changing the
  substance into something new.
• Examples
• Magnetism
• Color
• Density
• Texture
• Buoyancy

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Conduction

• The passing of heat or electricity through a
  material while the material itself stays in
  place.
• Examples
• Steel
• Iron

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Insulation

• Material energy (heat or electricity) cannot
  easily pass through.
• Examples
• Plastic
• Cloth
• Rubber
• Wood

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Solution

• A mixture of substances that are blended so
  completely that the mixture looks the same
  everywhere.
• Example Sugar water
• Sugar is dissolved in
• the water.

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Dissolve

• The process of going into a solution. It becomes
  disintegrated.

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Mixture

• A combination of two or more substances that can
  keep their own properties and can be separated
  again

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Electrical Energy

• Otherwise known as Electricity.
• Flowing of electrons through a circuit to produce
  a charge.

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Open Circuit

• Contacts, switches or similar devices are not
  connected thus preventing the flow of electrical
  current.

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Closed Circuit

• An electric circuit providing an uninterrupted,
  endless path for the flow of current.

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Electromagnet

• Wire coil around a metal core (usually an iron
  nail) that acts like a magnet when an electric
  current flows through it

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Solar Energy

• Energy from the Sun. Can be used to make
  electricity.

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Light Energy

• A form of energy that travels in waves and can
  move through empty space where there is no air.

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Reflection
Reflection occurs when light changes direction as
a result of bouncing off a surface like a
mirror.
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Refraction

• The bending of light as it passes from one
  material to another.

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Telescope Light Refraction
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Thermal Energy

• Energy that comes from heat.

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Sound

• Energy caused by vibrations that produce waves

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Vibration

• A back and forth motion of an object which will
  create sound.

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Force

• A push or pull which may result in motion.

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Motion

• The state in which one objects distance from
  another is changing

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Renewable Resources

• Resources that can be easily remade and usually
  recycled.

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Non-Renewable Resources

• Resources that CANNOT be easily renewed

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Fossil Fuels

• Fuels formed in the ground from the remains of
  dead plants and animals
• Examples coal, oil, natural gas

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Inexhaustible Resources

• Resources that can never be used up.
• Examples Sunlight Wind

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Constructive Forces

• A force that changes the shape of the Earth
  surface by making new landforms.
• Example Volcanoes

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Destructive Forces

• A force that breaks down earths surface.
• Example Earthquake

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Glacier

• A large body of moving ice that stays frozen all
  year.

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Weathering

• The breaking down and wearing away of rock.

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Erosion

• The carrying away or movement of rock and soil
  caused by wind, water, and ice.

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Deposition

• The dropping of sediments by water, wind, or ice.

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Sediment

• Soil, sand, silt, and other pieces of rock which
  wash from the land into water.

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Soil

• A material made of tiny pieces of rock, minerals,
  and decayed plant and animal matter.

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Retain

• To hold within usually dealing with the
  retention of water in soil.

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Permeability

• Ability to transmit fluids through pore spaces.

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Solar System

• The Sun (Star)
• The 8 planets
• (1) Mercury
• (2) Venus
• (3) Earth
• (4) Mars
• (5) Jupiter
• (6) Saturn
• (7) Uranus
• (8) Neptune
• And the many other objects that orbit the sun
  such as, comets, meteors, and
• asteroids.

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Rotation

• The spinning motion of Earth on its axis.
• It takes Earth approximately 24 hours to rotate
  once on its axis.

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Revolution

• The movement or orbit of an object around another
  object.
• It takes the Earth approximately 365 days to
  revolve around the Sun.

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Seasons

• Generally based on broad climatic patterns
• Four seasons spring, summer, autumn (fall), and
  winter
• Caused by the tilt of the Earth on its axis.

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Gravity

• A force of attraction, or pull, between any
  object and other objects around it. Gravity is
  the force that pulls you down to earth.
• Responsible for keeping planets in orbit around
  Sun.

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Orbit

• The path an object takes as it travels around
  another object.

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Moon

• A natural satellite that orbits around planets.

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Lunar Cycle

• The different appearances of the moon throughout
  the month which are also known as the phases of
  the moon.

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Tree Rings

• Variable width of rings produced by seasonal
  growth.
• The number of rings observed corresponds to the
  age of the tree.

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Sedimentary Rock Layers

• Helps scientists to figure out what happened in
  the past. The top layer is the youngest. The
  bottom layer is the oldest.

YOUNGEST
OLDEST
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Habitat

• The environment where an organism lives.

Polar bears in their habitat.
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Ecosystem

• All the living and nonliving things that interact
  with each other in an environment.

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Biotic
A part of the ecosystem that is alive.
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Abiotic

• The part of an ecosystem that is NOT alive.

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Biome

• A major land ecosystem having a distinct
  combination of plants and animals.

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Niche

• The role that an organism plays in its habitat.

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Organism
Bear
An individual living thing
Human
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Species

• A group of organisms that share similar
  characteristics. They can reproduce.

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Population

• All the organisms of the same species that live
  in the same place at the same time.

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Oxygen Carbon Dioxide Cycle
The movement of carbon dioxide and oxygen
between organisms and the air.
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Water Cycle
A continuous process that renews the fresh water
on Earth. The individual parts are called
evaporation, condensation, precipitation,
run-off, and transpiration.
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Nitrogen Cycle
The process that turns nitrogen gas in the air
into usable substances that plants and animals
can use.
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Life Cycle

• The stages of development an organism goes
  through from birth to death.

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Egg

• The first stage of development in many living
  organisms.

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Larva
The early immature stage that follows the egg
stage in an insects life cycle.
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Pupa

• The stage that follows the larva in many insects
  life cycle.

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Adult

• The final stage of an insects life.

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Nymph

• Larva of certain insects like grasshoppers
  resembling adult.

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Metamorphosis

• The change in shape and form some organisms go
  through during their life cycle.

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Incomplete Metamorphosis

• A gradual growth of an organism that changes in
  size, but NOT form.

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Complete Metamorphosis

• Changes in body form of insects that involve
  stages (egg, larva, pupa, adult).

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Photosynthesis

• The process by which producers, such as plants,
  make their own food by using energy from the Sun.

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Root

• Part of a plant that is found underground. It
  purpose is to absorb water and nutrients from the
  soil.

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Stem

• A slender structure that provides support to a
  plant.

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Leaf

• The part of the plant that performs
  photosynthesis. Usually the leaf is green.

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Flower

• Colorful part of a plant that produces the seeds.

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Nutrients

• Substances that
• are needed for an organism to live and grow

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Food Chain

• The path of energy from one organism to another
  organism.

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Food Web

• Most food chains overlap. These Overlapping food
  chains form a food web.

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Carnivore

• An animal that only eats other animals.
• Meat-eater

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Herbivore
An animal that eats only plant products.
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Omnivore

• An animal that eats both plants and animals.
• Example Bears eat fish and berries.

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Predator

• An animal that hunts, catches, and eats another
  animal.

Predator
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Prey

• An animal that is hunted, caught, and eaten by
  another animal.

Prey
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Producer
An organism that makes its own food.
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Consumer

• An organism that gets energy by eating other
  organisms.

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Decomposer

• An organism that gets energy by feeding on dead
  materials and wastes.

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Scavenger

• A meat-eating animal that feeds on the remains of
  dead animals.

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Parasitism

• A relationship between two different kinds of
  organisms in which one organism is helped and the
  other is harmed.

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Reproduction

• The process of making more organisms of the same
  kind.

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Offspring

• New organisms that come from parent organisms.

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Adaptation

• A behavior or body part that enables an organism
  to survive in its environment.

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Trait

• A characteristic or feature of an organism.
• Example brown eyes

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Learned Behavior

• The changed behavior or characteristic of an
  organism because of practice or experience.

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Camouflage

• An animals ability to change its color or
  pattern to help it blend in with its surroundings.

Bird
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Migration

• The regular long-distance movement of animals
  from one region to another

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Hibernation

• A long period when an animal is not active and
  all of its body systems slow down.