5th Grade Vocab
To take in
What is absorb?
The longevity of something (aka how long it will last)
What is durability?
The process through which water moves on Earth
What is the Water Cycle?
The process by which light can pass through something.
What is transmit?
What is Newton's First Law?
A collection of information or evidence
What is data?
This is the horizontal line or the vertical line of a graph
What is an axis?
This is a "sphere" of Earth that has to deal with rocks, minerals, landforms, and the surface of Earth.
What is the geosphere?
The process through which natural selection occurs over millions of years.
What is evolution?
These species can create their own food.
What is an autotroph/producer?
Drilled from the Earth, a nonrenewable resource used to power things(cars, homes, motors)
What is fossil fuel?
There are two types of these: lunar and solar
What is an eclipse?
There are five layers of the atmosphere: this is the first layer
What is the troposphere?
This is considered to be the "powerhouse of the cell."
What is mitochondria?
This is a type of plate boundary is when two tectonic plates push toward each other.
What is a convergent boundary?
Three versions of this that describe the movement of molecules (fast, medium, and slow)
What is a state of matter?
The process through which plants (leaves) give off excess water vapor into the atmosphere
What is transpiration?
Plants require water, carbon dioxide, and sunlight to perform this
What is photosynthesis?
The is in the "center" of the cell and houses the cells DNA and other important instructions.
What is the nucleus?
This happens when the sun, wind, and weather break down little pieces of rock.
What is weathering?
How reliable or true something is
What is validity?
The amount of time a given astronomical object takes to complete one orbit around another object
What is an orbital period?
These are the planets in our solar system IN ORDER FROM THE SUN
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
The sun does this to the moon.
What is illuminate?
This is what is currently happening where the Pacific Plate meets the North American Plate.
What is subduction?