2022 PSSA Science Vocabulary Word List 2

Relating to or living in still water.

• Lotic

• Lentic

• Aquatic

• Marine

The policy of constructing or creating man-made habitats, such as wetlands, to replace those lost to development.

• Construction

• Terraforming

• Migration

• Mitigation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

The sequential differentiation and segregation of replicated chromosomes in a cell's nucleus that precedes complete cell division to create identical daughter cells.

• Mitosis

• Meiosis

• Anaphase

• Interphase

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-4

The role played by an organism in an ecosystem.

• Function

• Niche

• Habitat

• Biome

Contamination that originates from many locations that all discharge into a single area.

• Point Source Pollution

• Nonpoint Source Pollution

• Renewable

• Nonrenewable

Substances that cannot be replaced in this geological age.

• Nonrenewable

• Renewable

• Hydrological

• Pleiotropic

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS3-2

A star that suddenly increases in brightness and returns to its original appearance in a few weeks, months, or years.

• Sun

• North Star

• Nova

• Nuclear Fission

An organism that is in competition with humans for the same resource.

• Symbiote

• Pest

• Insect

• Virus

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Pollutants discharged from a single identifiable location.

• Point Source Pollution

• Nonpoint Source Pollution

• Hazardous Pollution

• Destructive Pollution

An atom that gives off nuclear radiation; has the same number of protons as other atoms of the same element, but a different number of neutrons.

• Radioactive Isotope

• Hydrogen

• Nuclear Bomb

• Neutronification