Basic 6th Grade Science Vocabulary

What is a hypothesis?

• the data collected in an experiement

• the one thing that is changed during an experiment

• an educated guess made by someone conducting an experiment

• anything that takes up space

What is the study of electricity, light, gravity, machines, forces, waves, motion, and sound?

• Life Science

• Physical Science

• Earth Science

• Matter

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NGSS.MS-PS2-1

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-1

What is Earth Science?

• the study of habitats, cells, animals, plants, and their behaviors.

• the study of electricity, light, gravity, machines, forces, waves, motion, and sound.

• the study of people

• a branch of science that involves geography, rocks, planets, weather, minerals, stars, and land forms.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Which type of science studies habitats, cells, animals, plants, and their behaviors?

• Life Science

• Dependent Variable

• Earth Science

• Physical Science

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is the definition of matter?

• things that are changed by a scientist in an experiment

• the data collected in an experiment

• anything that takes up space

• an educated guess

Tags

NGSS.5-PS1-1

NGSS.5-PS1-3

What is a variable in an experiment?

• producers that make their own food.

• an educated guess.

• the normal state.

• things that are changed by a scientist in their experiments as they work to test their hypothesis

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

What is an independent variable?

• anything that takes up space

• the one thing during an experiment that is changed

• the data that is collected during an experiment

• what you are comparing your experiment to

What is a dependent variable?

• the one thing during an experiment that is changed

• anything that takes up space

• what you are comparing your experiment to

• the data that is collected during an experiment

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

What is the name for the normal state in an experiment, the thing or group you are comparing your experiment to?

• Control

• Independent Variable

• Dependent Variable

• Constant

What are autotrophs?

• animals with a backbone

• animals without a backbone

• producers that make their own food

• consumers that cannot make their own food

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3