Amplify - Ch 1 & 2 Vocab/Key Concepts (Inheritance and Traits)

To try and learn more about something

• investigate

• observe

• data

• explanation

• environment

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

To use any of the five senses to gather information about something

• investigate

• observe

• data

• explanation

• environment

Tags

NGSS.2-PS1-1

NGSS.K-2-ETS1-1

Observations or measurements recorded in an investigation

• variation

• observe

• data

• explanation

• genes

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

A description of how something works or why something happens

• variation

• observe

• data

• explanation

• evidence

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A living thing, such as a plant or animal

• observe

• organism

• genes

• species

• reproduce

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Differences

• explanation

• investigate

• reproduce

• offspring

• variation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

All the living and nonliving things in our area; our surroundings

• organism

• genes

• traits

• inherit

• environment

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A group of organisms that are closely related

• data

• environment

• organisms

• species

• variation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Something that can be observed about an organism, such as color or size

• offspring

• traits

• environment

• species

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

To make more of one's own kind; to make offspring

• data

• reproduce

• inherit

• genes

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS3-2