Amplify Science Unit 2 Vocabulary

What is data?

• observations or measurements recorded in an investigation

• to get something that is passed down

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

• to make offspring

All the living and nonliving things in an area is referred to as what?

• investigate

• environment

• trait

• pattern

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is a description of how something works or why something happens?

• genes

• variation

• explanation

• species

What are the instructions for making a living thing; they are in cells and passed from parents to offspring?

• offspring

• organisms

• investigate

• genes

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

What does inherit mean?

• to get something that is passed down

• observations of measurements recorded in an investigation

• a living thing, such as a plant or an animal

• differences

What does investigate mean?

• all the living and nonliving things in an area

• to try to learn more about something

• to make offspring

• living things that come from parents

When we use any of the five senses to gather information about something we do what?

• investigate

• trait

• observe

• inherit

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

What do we call living things that come from parents?

• species

• trait

• pattern

• offspring

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

What is an organism?

• a living thing, such as a plant or an animal

• differences

• a description of how something works or why something happens

What is a pattern?

• instructions for making a living thing

• something we observe to be similar over and over again

• a living thing

• observations or measurements recorded in an investigation