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5th Grade Leap Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| data | Information from which a conclusion can be drawn or a prediction can be made |
| investigation | to study by using close experiments using the scientific method |
| experiment | The use of scientific methods to test a hypothesis |
| procedure | Step-by-step instructions for completing a task |
| physical property | Properties observed using your senses without changing the identity of a substance |
| chemical property | Properties observed using more than your senses after changing the identify of a substance |
| solid | A substance that has a definite shape and volume |
| liquid | A substance that has no definite shape, but a definite volume |
| gas | A substance that has no definite shape nor a definite volume |
| chemical reaction | Reaction that causes the change of a substance into a new substance with different properties. |
| Who is you Favorite Teacher | Answers Vary |
| compare | To tell the characteristics that two separate things have in common. |
| calculate | To find the answer using math |
| graph | To represent by plotting on a graph |
| gravity | A force of attraction between any two objects |
| accelerate | When an object changes speed or direction |
| Who is you Vice Principal ? | Ms. Donnis Casanave |
| air resistance | The Force that stops a free falling object from falling quickly to the ground |
| Potential energy | Energy of position |
| kinetic Energy | energy of motion |
| Renewable resource | Energy resource that can be replaced and never used up |
| Nonrenewable resource | Type of energy resource that cannot be replaced |
| inexhaustible | Type of energy resource that that will never run out ( like the sun) |
| photosynthesis | Process of plants using sunlight water and carbon dioxide to make glucose and oxygen |
| water cycle | process by which water changes phases and travels through the environment |
| shadow | An area of darkness where light has been blocked by an object |
| light source | Where the light is coming from |
| mechanical energy | energy that requires an object to move |
| cell | The smallest part of a body that carries out the process of life |
| metamorphosis | The process of an animal changing during its life cycle |
| respiration | The process by which an animal takes in oxygen, food, and water and produce carbon dioxide |
| germs | Small mass of living substances capable of developing into a whole individual |
| transmit | To transfer from one person or place other place or person |
| producer | An organism that makes its own food for energy |
| consumer | An organism cannot make it own food |
| decomposer | An organism that eats by breaking down waste and dead organism |
| food chain | A series of steps by which energy moves form one type of living thing to another |
| food web | A diagram that combines many food chains into one picture |
| ecosystem | All the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions |
| marsh | An area near the shore |
| forest | A dense growth of trees and undergrowth |
| prairie | A larger are of level or rolling grassland |
| estuary | A passage where the tide meets a river current |
| swamp | Wet spongy land often partly covered with water |
| wetland | Land or areas as marshes or swamps |
| traits | A quality that sets on thing apart from another. |
| adaptations | A characteristic that increases an organism ability to survive |
| predator | A consumer that hunts and eats another animal |
| prey | Animal that is hunted and killed by carnivores |
| Organic matter | All living materials and materials that were once alive |
| Inorganic matter | All nonliving materials and soil |
| rocks | A large mass of stone |
| minerals | A nonliving naturally occurring solid that has its own regular arrangement of particle in it |
| erosion | The movement of materials away from a place |
| hydrosphere | All the water from earth |
| atmosphere | The mixture of water vapor and other gases as well as particles of mater |
| polar zone | Received energy from the sun less directly than the tropical zone |
| temperate zone | The area or region where it is warm |
| tropical zone | zone that contains the equator and is usually warm |
| What school do you go to? | IMMS |
| Who is your Principal ? | Mrs. Alexa Hookfin |
| weather map symbols | A slow destructive process that breaks rocks into sediment |
| natural event | any event that occurs without human assistance such as tornadoes, hurricanes, storms, volcanic erruptions etc. |
| rotation | The act of rotating especially on an axis |
| axis | A straight line by which body or geometric figure rotatates |
| inner planets | Plants that have rocky surface such as mercury venus earth mars |
| outer planets | Any of the four planets in our solar system ( IDK) |
| How many point do we need to win? | 20 Points !!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| revolution | One full orbit around the sun |
| solar system | A star with a group of heavy body that revolved around it |
| water cycle | The water cycle is repeated movement of water through the environment in different forms |
| ecosystem | All of the living and nonliving things in an area that area interacting |
| carrying capacity | The amount of food water space and shelter that can only support a specific number of organism |
| pollutants | An unwanted substance added to the land water or air |
| carbon cycle | Repeated movement of carbon through the environment in different forms |
| nitrogen cycle | Repeated movement of nitrogen through the environment in different forms |
| water cycle | Repeated movement of water through the environment in different forms |
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