Biological Sciences
A large group used to classify living things. Examples include animals, plants, and fungi.
Kingdom
A simple line showing who eats whom in an ecosystem.
Food Chain
Anything that takes up space and has weight—like air, water, or a pencil.
Matter
Using a filter to separate solids from liquids—like straining pasta
Filtration
Blubber
To cry noisily or in a silly way.
A group of living things that are very similar and can have babies together.
Species
A group of connected food chains showing how energy moves through an ecosystem.
Food Web
Tiny pieces that make up everything around us.
Particles
Pouring off a liquid to leave behind something heavier—like water from sand.
Decantation
Dillydally
To waste time or be slow when you should be doing something.
The way scientists group and organize living things based on their features.
Classification
A community of living things and their environment, all working together.
Ecosystem
The power to do things—like move, heat up, or light a bulb.
Energy
When a liquid slowly turns into a gas—like puddles drying in the sun.
Evaporation
Skedaddle
To run away quickly, usually in a funny or silly way.
A tool that helps identify living things by asking a series of yes/no questions.
Dichotomous Key
Heating a liquid to make steam, then cooling it to get clean liquid back—used to clean water.
Distillation
When two or more things are put together but don’t change—like sand and salt.
Mixture
When dissolved stuff turns into crystals as the liquid disappears—like salt from salty water.
Crystallisation
Thingamajig
A word you use when you can’t remember the name of something
A mixture where one thing dissolves in another—like sugar in water.
Solution
A way to separate colours or inks to see what they’re made of.
Chromatography
Zany
Very silly or funny in a strange way.