FSA Vocabulary we will be learning this year:
Topic 1:
- Gravity: a force that pulls masses toward large objects, such as the Earth and the sun
- Rotation: the spinning of an object when it moves.
- Revolution: The movement of one object around another
- Galaxy: a massive group of stars, gas, and dust in space
- Solar System: the planets, asteroids, and comets that orbit the sun, as well as the planets' moons.
- Inner Planets: the four rocky planets closest to the sun
- Outer Planets: the four large planets farthest from the sun that are made of ice and gases.
- Evaporation: the process where a substance warms and changes from a liquid into a gas.
- Condensation: the process where a gas cools and becomes a liquid
- Precipitation: Water in the atmosphere that falls to Earth as rain, sleet, snow, or hail
- Currents: continuous, direct movements of water that flow through the ocean.
- Aquifer: large supplies of underground water
- Climate: the average weather patterns of a place found by studying years of weather
- Weather: the conditions in a place's atmosphere, such as sunny, rainy, or snowy
- Humidity: the amount of water vapor in the air
- Air pressure: the downward force of air that affects weather.
- Circulation (Air): air moving heat in a circular motion
- Dissolve: to cause to become incorporated into a liquid so as to form a
solution. - Mixture: a substance where different materials are put together but each keeps
its own properties - Solution: a mixture where the substances are evenly spread out
- Matter: anything that takes up space and has mass.
- Chemical change: the process where one or more kinds of matter changes into
one or more different kinds of matter - Physical change: a change in traits—such as color, size, and shape—that does
not change what the substance is made of - Mass: the amount of matter an object has
- Volume: the amount of space an object takes up
- Reflection: To bounce off of an object
- Refraction: to bend when passing through an object
- Absorb: To take in or soak up
- Conductor: a material that energy can easily flow through
- Pitch: Tells how high or low a sound is
- Vibration: the back and forth motion of an object
- Energy: the ability to do work or cause a change
- Closed circuit: complete electrical connection around which current flows or circulates
- Force: a push or pull that can act on or change an object● Unbalanced forces: forces that cause a change in motion of an object
- Balanced forces: Two forces of equal strength, that combine to act on the same object but in different directions.
- Friction: an opposing force caused by two objects touching each other
- Non-contact force: a force that does not need to touch an object to affect it, such as gravity
- Contact force: a push or pull that moves or changes an object when two objects touch
- Metamorphic rock: A group of rocks formed when particles of other rocks are combined by pressure.
- Sedimentary rock: A group of rocks formed when particles--such as dirt, sand, and fossils--settle into layers
- Igneous rock: A group of rocks made from the products of a volcano eruption, such as magma.
- Renewable resources: A substance that cannot be used up.
- Nonrenewable resources: A substance that there is a limited amount of or is used up faster than it is made.
- Metamorphosis: The growth of an insect from egg to adulthood that has either three or four distinct stages.
- Producer: An organism that can make its own nutrients, usually with energy from the sun.
- Consumer: An organism that needs to eat another to survive, such as herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores.
- Carnivore: An animal that eats only other animals for energy.
- Herbivore: Animals that eat only plants to get energy.
- Vertebrate: An animal with a backbone, such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish
- Invertebrate: An animal that does NOT have a backbone, such as insects, snails, and jellyfish .
- Omnivore: Animals that eat both plants and animals for energy.
- Predator: An animal that naturally preys on other animals.
- Larva: A recently hatched insect that eats to build up energy for the next stage of metamorphosis.
- Pupa: The third stage of an insect’s life, where it rests so energy can be used to change to The final stage.
- Mammal characteristics: Warm-blooded animals that usually have hair, breathe through their lungs, and feed milk to their young.
- Reptile characteristics: Cold-blooded animals with dry, scaly skin that breathe through their lungs.
- Amphibian characteristics: Cold-blooded animals with smooth, moist skin that live on land and in water.
- Bird characteristics: Warm-blooded animals with feathers, beaks, wings, and light bones. They breathe through lungs and hatch their young from eggs.
- Weathering: The process where particles are slowly moved off of a solid.
- Erosion: The slow process where particles are removed from solids by wind or water.