Science STAAR Vocabulary

Sediments

• Fragments of small pieces of rock
• The part of the experiment that changes
• Single pathway through electricity flows, all of the parts are connected along the same path
• One spin around axis

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

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Tundra

• Mild temperatures
• Artic, very cold
• Very hot and dry
• Organism that gets its energy by eating other organisms

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Producer

• Organisms that gets its energy by eating other organisms
• Organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy - plants, flowers, trees
• Organism that eats dead plants and animals

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

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Fossil

• Preserved part or trace of an animal or plant that lived in the past
• What a body part is used for, its purpose
• Rock is broken down by rain, wind, and ice
• Process by which overlying pressure from rocks and soil and reduces the size and volume of sediments

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Temperate

• Artic, very cold
• Organism that gets its energy by eating other organisms
• The part of the experiment that changes
• Mild, tropical like climate

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Nonrenewable Resources

• One spin around axis
• Single pathway through electricity flows, all of the parts are connected along the same path
• A resource that CANNOT be replaced in our lifetime, takes millions of years to form
• Solid fossil fuel that is formed from the remains of plants over millions of years ago

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Compaction

• Process by which pressure from rocks and soil reduces the size or volume of sediment
• Combination of 2 or more things that CANNOT be separated
• What a body part is used for, it's purpose
• The part of the experiment that changes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Coal

• An imaginary line that Earth rotates around
• Solid fossil fuel that is formed from the remains of plants over millions of years ago
• Characteristic that is passed from parent to offspring
• Organism that gets its energy by eating other organisms

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Weathering

• Body part that has a certain job
• Single pathway through which electricity flows, all of the parts are connected along the same path
• Movement of sediments
• Rock is broken down by rain, wind, and ice

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Rotate

• One spin around axis
• The Earth going around the Sun one time
• What a body part is used for, it's purpose
• Organism that gets its energy by eating other organism

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6