8th Grade Unit 4 Vocabulary

What is an organism that makes its own food called?

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• Reactant

• Product

What is the term for a change in matter that produces one or more new substances?

• Conservation of mass

• Energy

• Chemical change

• Organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

Which principle states that mass cannot be created or destroyed?

• Energy

• Conservation of mass

• Chemical change

• Reactant

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

What is the ability to do work called?

• Energy

• Product

• Oxygen

• Carbon Dioxide

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

What is an organism that cannot make its own food called?

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Reactant

• Product

What is a living thing referred to as?

• Reactant

• Product

• Organism

• Energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Which gas is used in photosynthesis to make sugars?

• Oxygen

• Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

• Nitrogen

• Hydrogen

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Which gas is taken in by living things and used in cellular respiration?

• Carbon Dioxide

• Oxygen

• Nitrogen

• Helium

What is a substance produced in a chemical reaction called?

• Reactant

• Product

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

What is a chemical substance present at the start of a chemical reaction called?

• Product

• Reactant

• Energy

• Organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2