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BH Sci Vocab list #4
4th grade science vacab list #2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| To take in or swallow up liquids or energy | absorb |
| Instrument used for comparing mass or weight | balance |
| What an animal does, the way a living thing acts | behavior |
| An adaptation of an organism that allows it to blend with its surroundings | camouflage |
| To place into groups based on similar or different properties | classify |
| A living thing that depends upon plants (producers) or other consumers (usually animals) for food | consumer |
| An organism that breaks down dead plant or animal materials | decomposer |
| The study of interrelationship between living things and their environment | ecology |
| The ability to do work | energy |
| A normal action or use (the function of the leaves is to manufacture food for the plant) | function |
| What you think the answer to a question or problem may be, an educated guess | hypothesis |
| The motion of an object (sliding, rolling, tumbling, bouncing) | movement |
| Something that can be seen or observed | object |
| To gather information using the senses | observe |
| The reproduced young of a particular person, animal or plant | offspring |
| An object suspended from a fixed point, such as from the end of a string, which is free to swing back and forth | pendulum |
| A living thing that uses the sun's energy to make food, green plants are producers | producer |
| The function, the job of an object | purpose |
| To process or treat something so that it can be used again | recycle |
| The way in which seeds are spread from one location to another by wind, water or animals | seed dispersal |
| To group or classify things according to properties | sort |
| An orderly combination or arrangement of parts into a whole, a group of interacting objects | system |
| To move from one location to another | transfer |
| Standard quantity used as a basis for measuring | unit of measure |
| The amount of space an object takes up | volume |