General CAASPP Vocab
This word means to study information carefully and break it into parts to understand it better.
What is analyze?
The word to describe the data used to support a claim.
What is evidence?
This process explains how organisms with helpful traits are more likely to survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection?
This is a push or pull acting on an object.
What is a force?
This theory explains how Earth’s plates move and interact.
What is plate tectonics?
This word means to explain similarities and differences between two things.
What is compare and contrast?
A statement explaining results based on evidence.
What is a conclusion?
These are changes in DNA that can be helpful, harmful, or neutral.
What are mutations?
This word describes the amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
This layer of Earth is made of molten rock and lies beneath the crust.
What is the mantle?
This word means to judge the quality or value of information using evidence.
What is evaluate?
This is a visual display of data that helps scientists identify patterns and trends.
What is a graph?
This type of organism makes its own food, usually through photosynthesis.
What is a producer?
This is the energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
This process breaks down rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
This word means to support a claim with evidence and reasoning.
What is justify?
This is the factor that is measured. It responds to the change in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
This term describes all the variety of different living things in an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
This type of change forms a new substance.
What is a chemical change?
This cycle describes the continuous movement of water on Earth.
What is the water cycle?
This word means to make a smart guess based on evidence and prior knowledge.
What is infer?
This is the factor in an experiment that is purposely changed by the scientist.
What is the independent variable?
This is the movement of energy from one organism to another (in a line).
What is a food chain?
This law states that matter cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass/Matter?
This is the path an object follows as it moves around another object in space.
What is an orbit?