Science Content Words

A circuit that has only one pathway to follow

• circuit city

• series circuit

• positive circuit

• parallel circuit

Rock formed by heat and pressure

• hard rock

• sedimentary rock

• igneous rock

• metamorphic rock

a substance made up of one type of atom

• adam

• molecule

• element

• compound

the function or role and organism plays in the community

• niche

• community

• population

• ecosystem

the factor that ways stays the same

• constant

• independent variable

• dependent variable

• congruent

physical adaptation that helps an organism meet a life need

• counseling adaptation

• behavioral adaptation

• structural adaptation

• community adaptation

the one factor in the experiment that is altered (changed) by the experimenter

• constant

• dependent variable

• independent variable

• experiment variable

the factor in the experiment the changes as a result of t he independent variable

• dependent variable

• independent varialbe

• constant

• hypothesis

When an object orbits (circles) around another object

• axis

• revolution

• rotation

• spinning

This type of rock might have fossils found inside

• metamorphic

• igneous

• classic

• sedimentary