Elevate Science Topic 5 - Vocabulary Assessment

pollution

• all the trash around our playground

• the presence of substances in the environment that are harmful to humans or other organisms  

• gasses that are released into the air

• the presence of natural resources in the environment that are harmful to humans or other organisms

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effect

• to change your mind

• the result of a reaction

• natural changes in the environment

• a change that happens because of some kind of action

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conservation

• the practice of protecting the environment and using resource carefully

• to reserve the things we have on earth

• to save energy

• to protect all earths resources

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hydroelectric energy

• energy that comes from natural gas

• energy that comes from water

• energy that comes from electricity

• energy at comes from burning fossil fuels

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transforms

• to convert

• to change

• to interrupt a process

• to stop

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Natural gas

• a flammable gas

• formed in the environment

• a substance used to fuel our vehicles

• a substance that is renewable

efficient

• to waste energy

• to conserve energy

• to get as least as we can from them and do not waste

•  to get as much as we can from them and do not waste

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

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rocks

• Natural substance made up of one or more minerals

• Natural substance not made up of minerals

• Natural substance that can be made up of natural gas

• pebbles created in Earths surface

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minerals

• findings when digging in coal mines

• naturally occurring, nonliving solids in Earth's crust

• a material that is living

• naturally occurring, living solids in Earth's crust

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

natural resource

• something found in Earth's water

• something found only in Earth's crust

• something found in coal mines that humans use

• something found in nature that humans use

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