Science Vocabulary Review

Physical characteristics passed down from parent to offspring. (eye color, fur pattern, flower petal color)

• instincts

• learned behaviors

• inherited physical traits

• acquired physical traits

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

when matter has a change in its physical properties but not its chemical properties; only state, shape, size, color change; there is no new substance created

• chemical change

• physical change

• inherited physical traits

• acquired physical traits

happens when matter breaks down into two or more substances or when more than one substance is combined to form a new substance; it can not be reversed

• chemical change

• physical change

• inherited physical traits

• acquired physical traits

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

A system used by scientists to help them group and study organisms by similarities, or things that the organisms have in common

• constructive processes

• destructive processes

• classification

• magnetism

List the steps of the scientific method

d

e

f

c

b

a

Form a hypothesis

Analyze results

Communicate results

Draw conclusions

Conduct experiment

Ask a question

the smallest unit of life and make up all living things

• microorganism

• plant

• cell

• structure

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

parts or structures of a cell (cell membrane, nucleus)

• cell

• organelles

• inherited physical traits

• instincts

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

Behaviors the organism knows without being taught; born with it ( babies crying for food or being quiet in the nest when parents are away)

• inherited physical traits

• acquired physical traits

• instincts

• learned behaviors

Behaviors taught to an organism, or discovered through interactions with the environment. (where to find food or tie shoelaces)

• instincts

• learned behaviors

• inherited physical traits

• acquired physical traits

Physical traits developed after the organism is born (over time and later in life) and are not passed to offspring by parents (scar, limp).

• instincts

• learned behaviors

• inherited physical traits

• acquired physical traits