Download Tennessee Academic Vocabulary – 4th grade

Tennessee Academic Vocabulary – 4th grade
SCIENCE
WORD
Adaptations
DEFINITION
adjustment to environmental
conditions: as a : adjustment
of a sense organ to the
degree or quality of
stimulation b : change in an
organism or its parts that fits it
better for the conditions of its
environment; also : a structure
resulting from this change
Amphibians
any organism that is able to
live both on land and in water;
especially : any of a class of
cold-blooded vertebrate
animals (as frogs and
salamanders) that in many
respects are between fishes
and reptiles
cell (wall,
membrane,
cytoplasm,
nucleus)
one of the tiny units that are
the basic building blocks of
living things, that carry on the
basic functions of life either
CURRICULUM OPPORTUNITIES
NUMBER OF
EXPOSURES
alone or in groups, and that
include a nucleus and are
surrounded by a membrane
condensation
Condensation is crucial to
the water cycle because it
is responsible for the
formation of clouds.
earth's layers
(crust, mantle,
core)
edible (parts of
plants)
Fit or safe to be eaten;
endangered
to bring into danger or peril
erosion
the action or process of
eroding : the state of being
eroded; eroded - to destroy
gradually by chemical means :
CORRODE b : to wear away
by or as if by the action of
water, wind, or glacial ice
evaporation
the process of evaporating;
evaporate – to pass off or
cause to pass off into vapor
from a liquid state
2 : to pass off or away :
DISAPPEAR
3 : to remove some of the
water from (as by heating)
friction
1 a : the rubbing of one thing
against another b : the force
that resists motion between
bodies in contact <the friction
of a box sliding along the
floor> <lubrication reduces
friction>
2 : disagreement between
persons or groups
3 : sound produced by the
movement of air through a
narrow constriction in the
mouth or glottis
gravity
a : the quality or state of being
dignified and proper b : the
quality or state of being
important or serious
2 : WEIGHT
3 a : the gravitational
attraction of the mass of a
heavenly body (as the earth)
for bodies at or near its
surface b : a force of attraction
between particles or bodies
that occurs because of their
mass, is stronger as mass is
increased, and is weaker as
the distance between the
objects is increased c :
heredity
the genes and the genetic
traits whose expression they
control that are passed on
from one's parents
2 : the passing on of genes
and genetic traits from parent
to offspring
lunar
of, relating to, or resembling
the moon <lunar craters> <a
lunar landscape>
2 : measured by the moon's
revolution
mammals
any of a class of warmblooded vertebrates that
include human beings and all
other animals that nourish
their young with milk produced
by mammary glands and have
the skin usually more or less
covered with hair
mixture/solution
two or more substances that
are mixed together but not
chemically combined and that
may vary in proportion; an act
or the process by which a
solid, liquid, or gaseous
substance is dissolved in a
liquid b : a liquid in which
something has been dissolved
c : the condition of being
dissolved
moon phases
a particular appearance or
state in a repeating series of
changes; to do with the moon
(correct
sequence)
parallel circuit
So parallel circuits have more
than one path for electricity to
follow!
pitch
: resin from various conebearing trees
precipitation
2 : the process of precipitating
or of forming a precipitate
3 : water or the amount of
water that falls to the earth as
hail, mist, rain, sleet, or snow
renewable / nonrenewable
capable or not capable of
being replaced by natural
ecological cycles or sound
management procedures
<renewable resources like
water, wildlife, forests, and
grasslands>
reptiles
capable of being replaced by
natural ecological cycles or
sound management
procedures <renewable
resources like water, wildlife,
forests, and grasslands>
series circuit
A series circuit has all the
items arranged in a row, one
after the other, so electrons
follow one single path.
simple machines
Simple machines are simple
tools used to make work
easier
solar energy
Energy from the sun
threatened
to be an imminent danger of
extinction
thriving
to grow vigorously : do well
traits /
characteristics
a quality that sets one person
or thing off from another :
PECULIARITY; an inherited
characteristic