Science TCAP Vocabulary 2

to study something carefully to answer a question about it 

• invent
• study 
• investigate 

something useful that is made for the first time

• invention
• creation
• thing 

a feature on Earth's surface, such as a mountain 

• hurricane
• natural disaster 
• landform 

a skill gained by learning 

• inherited trait 
• learned trait 

the stages an organism goes through from beginning of life to death 

• life cycle
• life wheel
• plant cell
• gravity 

a graph that shows data as a line across a grid 

• circle graph
• line graph
• box plot
• bar graph

the amount of matter that makes up an object

• force 
• mass
• distance 
• height

anything that has mass and takes up space 

• matter
• mass
• volume
• thing 

the process by which a solid changes to a liquid 

• melting 
• evaporation
• condensation
• freezinf 

a relationship in which BOTH organisms benefit (get helped)

• commensalism
• mutualism 
• parasitism