Deauville Gardens 4th Grade Science Vocabulary
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- recycle
- to process or treat something so that it may be used again
- kilogram
- a metric unit for measuring weight
- evaporate
- to change from a liquid state to a gas state
- camouflage
- an adaptation of an organism that enables it to blend in with its surroundings
- standard unit
- a unit of meaure like the inch or yard that people agree to use
- object
- something that can be seen or observed, touched, heard, smelled, tasted and described
- force
- a push or a pull
- buoyancy
- the upward force of water or another liquid or air that keeps things afloat
- pendulum
- an object suspended from a fixed point
- system
- an orderly combination or arrangement of parts into a whole; a group of interacting objects
- offspring
- the reproduced young of a particular person, animal or plant
- melt
- when particles absorb heat energy and changes from a solid to a liquid
- carnivore
- a meat eater; a consumer that eats only other consumers
- Celsius
- a metric unit for measuring temperature (C degrees)
- pole
- the ends of a magnet where the greatest power is found; the ends are called the north and south poles
- characteristic
- a property or special feature
- hypothesis
- what you think the answer to a problem or question may be
- mass
- the amount of matter or material an object has in it
- conductor
- a material through which electricity can pass; a material through which heat can pass
- transfer
- to move from one location to another
- learned behavior
- behavior that is not inborn
- milliliter
- a metric unit for measuring volume, usually liquid volume
- decomposer
- an organism that breaks down dead plant or animal materials
- sequence
- number of events following one another
- migration
- seasonal movement by animals in search of water, food, or a warmer climate
- current electricity
- a moving electrical charge
- consumer
- a living thing that depends upon plants (producers) or other consumers for food
- structure
- anything composed of parts arranged together
- water cycle
- the continuous movement of water between the Earth's surface and the air, changing from a liquid to a gas to a liquid
- community
- a group of different plants and animals, living in a particular area, depending upon each other for food and other needs
- organism
- any living thing
- behavior
- what an animal does; the way a living thing acts
- movement
- the motion of an object such as sliding, rolling, tumbling, bouncing and vibrating
- balance
- an instrument used for comparing the mass or weight of two or more objects
- photosynthesis
- the process by which a plant uses sunlight, carbon dioxide and water to produce its own food
- herbivore
- a plant eater
- omnivore
- a consumer that eats both plants and animals
- producer
- a living thing that uses the sun's energy to make food; green plants are producers
- food pyramid
- a chart that shows how many servings of each food group a person should eat each day for a balanced diet
- hibernation
- to spend winter in a state in which the body's metabolism greatly slows down
- germination
- begin to grow or develop; sprout
- observe
- to gather information using the senses: sight, touch, taste, smell, and hearing
- function
- a normal action or use
- food chain
- the path energy and material take in a community; energy is passed from the sun to green plants and on to animals
- sort
- to group or classify according to properties; arrange in groups
- adaptation
- a structure or behavior that helps a living thing survive inits environment
- ecology
- the study of the interrelationship between living things and their environment
- food web
- a complex network of two or more food chains
- reflect
- to bounce off or send back
- circuit
- the path electricity flows through
- matter
- the stuff that things are made of; solid, liquid and gas are the three states of matter
- ecosystem
- all the living and nonliving things in an environment and all their interactions
- inherited traits
- behaviors that are not learned, instinct, in your genes
- volume
- the amount of space an object takes up
- prediction
- a guess based on observation, experience, reasoning
- pollen
- the tiny grains produced by flowers that are transferred by wind, insects, animals and water
- population
- the number of one kind of plant or animal living in a community or habitat
- heredity
- the passing of traits from parents to offspring
- condensation
- the changing of a gas into a liquid
- thermometer
- tool used to measure temperature
- classify
- to place into groups based on similar or different properties; to sort
- overpopulation
- a depletion of resources that occurs when too many of at least one kind of living thing inhabits an ecosystem
- absorb
- to take in or swallow up liquids or energy
- density
- amount of matter in a given space
- unit of measure
- standard quantity used as a basis for measuring (i.e. centimeters, milliliters, degrees, meters)
- gram
- a metric unit for measuring mass or weight
- property
- characteristics of an object such as shape, color, size, texture, weight and density
- centimeters
- a metric unit for measuring length (cm)
- life span
- the length of time a plant or animal lives
- habitat
- the place where an animal or plant naturally lives or thrives
- energy
- the ability to do work
- diameter
- a line segment that goes from one side of a circle to the other, through the center
- environment
- the total of all surroundings
- friction
- a force that occurs when one object rubs against another object
- life cycle
- the stages in the life of a plant or animal
- metric unit
- a system of measurement based on units of 10
- purpose
- the function; the job or use of an object
- seed dispersal
- the way in which seeds are spread from one location to another by wind, water or animals
- insulator
- a material through which electricity cannot pass; a material through which heat cannot pass