3rd Grade Science Vocabulary
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- to decide the value or worth of after study
- evaluate
- surroundings and conditions in which an organism lives
- environment
- the act or process of changing something to fit different conditions
- adaptation
- hypothesis was correct or not
- conclusion
- an instruction, indication, or order given with authority
- directions
- natural resources that cannot be replaced once used, such as coal, oil, and gas
- non-renewable
- the place where a population lives in an ecosystem
- habitat
- anything that takes up space
- matter
- the young of a living thing
- off-spring
- to produce off-spring
- reproduce
- a body feature that an animal inherits; It can also be some things that an animal does.
- traits
- a device that makes work easier
- simple machine
- a special quality or appearance that makes something different from others
- characteristic
- a form of matter that has volume that stays the same, but can change shape
- liquid
- a place where something or someone is
- position
- a group of related living things that have the same basic characteristics
- species
- the saving of resources by using them carefully
- conservation
- to search or examine
- investigation
- to continue to live or exist
- survive
- characteristics that help to identify or classify
- properties
- a shaking of the ground caused by the sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust
- earthquake
- an idea that can be tested by experiment or observation
- hypothesis
- to grow strong and healthy
- thrive
- to become destroyed
- perish
- a community and its physical environment together
- ecosystem
- a change in position
- motion
- a form of matter that does not have a definite shape or a definite volume
- gas
- the measure of how hot or cold something is
- temperature
- the path an object takes as it moves around another object in space
- orbit
- the state of matter that has a definite shape and takes up a definite amount of space
- solid
- to change something to fit different conditions
- adaptive
- the measure of the amount of matter an object has in it; measured in grams or kilograms
- mass
- a great mass of ice moving very slowly down a mountain or along a valley, or spreading very slowly over a land area
- glacier
- any living thing
- organism
- a mixture of rock, mineral particles and organic matter
- soil
- the force that pulls objects toward each other
- gravity
- the sun and the objects that orbit it
- solar system
- the line along which something moves
- path
- a simple machine made of a flat surface set at an angle to another surface
- inclined plane
- a resource such as air or water that can be used over and over and cannot be used up
- inexhaustible
- the step-by-step description of how you carried out your experiment;
- procedure
- spins
- rotates
- traits received from parents
- inherited traits
- a force of magnets that attract iron or steel
- magnetism
- anything that you can observe about an object by using your senses (tasting, touching, feeling, smelling, and hearing)
- physical properties
- natural resources that can be renewed or replaced by nature, such as food crops and solar energy
- renewable resource
- materials that are found in nature and that are used by living things
- resources
- travel in a path; large circle
- revolve
- a push or a pull
- force