Link to the Glossary is HERE.
Vocabulary List 1 (Topic: Changing Earth)
Date assigned: August 26th
Date completed vocabulary is due: September 3
Date of Vocabulary quiz: September 6
1. Contour line
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9. Faulting
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17. Profile
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Vocabulary List for week of September 10th (Topic: Ways of Science)
1. Bar graph
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6. Experimental group
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11. Inquiry
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16. Median
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21. Range
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Vocabulary List for week of September 24th (Topic: Atmospheric Interactions)
1. Acid rain
2. Air mass 3. Air pollution 4. Atmosphere 5. Biogeochemical cycles 6. Biome 7. Biosphere |
8. Carbon cycle
9. Climate 10. Cold front 11. Drought 12. Flooding 13. Front 14. Global warming |
15. High-pressure system
16. Hurricane 17. Hydrosphere 18. Isobars 19. Lithosphere 20. Low-pressure system 21. Nitrogen cycle |
22. Occluded front
23. Particulates 24. Smog 25. Station model 26. Stationary front 27. Thunderstorm 28. Tornado |
29. Tornado Alley
30. Warm front 31. Water cycle 32. Water pollution 33. Weather 34. Weather forecasting 35. Weather map |
Vocabulary List for week of October 9th (Topic: Earth's Surface)
1. Bedrock
2. Chemical properties 3. Igneous rock 4. Metamorphic rock 5. Lava 6. Magma |
7. Minerals
8. Physical properties 9. Rocks 10. Rock cycle 11. Sedimentary rock 12. Soil |
Vocabulary List for week of November 5th (Topic: Nature of Matter)
1. Atom
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9. Composition
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17. Matter
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Vocabulary List for week of November 19th (Topic: Forces and Motion)
1. Applied force
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8. Mass
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Vocabulary List for week of December 3rd (Topic: Nature of Energy)
1. Amplitude
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8. Heat (thermal) energy
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15. Potential energy
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Vocabulary List for week of December 17th (Topic: Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy Sources) Quiz Date: January 4, 2013
1. Biomass energy
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7. hydroelectric energy
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13. Oil
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Vocabulary List for week of January 7th (Topic: The Solar System) Quiz Date: January 17th
1. Aphelion
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7. Dwarf planet
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13. Meteoroid
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19. Perihelion
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25. Tides
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Vocabulary List for week of January 22nd (Topic: The Universe) Quiz Date: February 1st
1. Artificial satellite
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6. Milky Way Galaxy
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11. Supergiant
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Vocabulary List for week of February 4th (Topic: Life Science) Quiz Date: February 14th
1. Abiotic
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12. Elimination
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24. Nucleus
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Vocabulary List for week of February 25th (Topic: Reproduction and Heredity) Quiz Date: Friday, March 8th
1. Adaptation
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9. Gamete
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17. Sex cells
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Vocabulary List for week of March 11th (Topic: Diversity of Life, pages 289 - 307 in the OAA Booklet) Quiz Date: Friday, March 22nd
1. Abiotic factors (p. 290)
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11. Ecosystem
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21. Organisms
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Vocabulary List for week of April 1st (Topic: Evolutionary Theory) Quiz Date: Friday, April 19th
1. Aquatic succession
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7. Extinction
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12. Pioneer species
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