Waves, Energy & Information Unit Vocabulary

How big or loud a wave is

• collision

• amplitude

• particle

• pattern

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

two or more things bumping into each other

• pattern

• amplitude

• vibrate

• collision

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NGSS.MS-PS2-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

to share information

• communicate

• model

• investigate

• explanation

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

NGSS.MS-ETS1-3

the ability to make things move or change

• amplitude

• communicate

• energy

• transfer

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NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

a description of how something works or why something happens

• explanation

• model

• visualize

• transfer

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

to try and learn more about something

• particle

• communicate

• investigate

• model

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

the stuff that makes up everything

• wavelength

• material

• particle

• pattern

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

something scientist make to answer questions about the real world.

• material

• explanation

• particle

• model

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

a tiny piece of material that is too small to see

• particle

• waveform

• visualize

• material

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

something that we observe to be similar over and over again

• pattern

• source

• vibrate

• wave

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1