Grade 7

Vocabulary Words Definition

1. Solubility is a characteristic property of a specific solute–solvent combination,
and different substances have greatly differing solubilities.
2. Heterogeneous mixture a mixture in which the composition is not uniform throughout the
mixture. 
3. Concentrated Solution one that has a relatively large amount of dissolved solute. 
4. Scientific Method is a process for experimentation that is used to explore observations
and answer questions
5. Hypothesis an idea or proposition that can be tested by observations or
experiments, about the natural world; educated guess
6. Independent variable variable that stands alone and isn't changed by the other variables you
are trying to measure.
7. Colloid  a mixture is two or more substances mixed together but not
chemically combined
8. Evaporation process that changes liquid water to gaseous water (water vapor). 
9. Decantation the process of separation of liquid from solid and other immiscible
(non-mixing) liquids, by removing the liquid layer at the top from the
layer of solid or liquid below. 
10. Filtration the process in which solid particles in a liquid or gaseous fluid are
removed by the use of a filter medium that permits the fluid to pass
through but retains the solid particles

Grade 8

Vocabulary Words Definition

1. Motion in physics, change with time of the position or orientation of a body.
2. Energy ability to do work, which is the ability to exert a force causing
displacement of an object
3. Force The push or pull on an object
4. Velocity displacement of the object in unit time, speed with direction
5. Acceleration vector quantity that is defined as the rate at which an object changes
its velocity. 
6. Displacement vector quantity that refers to "how far out of place an object is”
7. Refraction the bending of light (it also happens with sound, water and other
waves) as it passes from one transparent substance into another.
8. Dispersion he separation of light into colors by refraction or diffraction
9. Prism Triangular piece of thick glass, transparent and refracting medium
bounded by two plane surfaces inclined at an angle
10. Temperature Temperature is related to the average kinetic energy of atoms and
molecules in a system, expresses the hotness of matter or radiation

Grade 9

Vocabulary Words Definition

1. Extinction Irreversible loss of species
2. Endangered seriously at risk of extinction.
3. Biodiversity a term used to describe the enormous variety of life on Earth.
4. Biology Study of life
5. Paleontology scientific study of prehistoric life on Earth as based on fossils
6. Pleura thin shiny membrane which covers the inside surface of the rib
cage and spreads over the lungs as well
7. Chromosome threadlike structures made of protein and a single molecule of DNA
that serve to carry the genomic information from cell to cell
8. Gene the basic physical and functional unit of heredity; made up of DNA.
9. Genetics the scientific study of genes and heredity
10. Codominance type of inheritance with a heterozygote phenotype intermediate
between the two homozygote phenotypes

Grade 10

Vocabulary Words Definition

1. Earthquake a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great
 destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or
volcanic action.
2. Fault It is a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock. It allow
the blocks to move relative to each other
3. Trench
4. Asthenosphere Weak, plastic-like layer of the mantle that lies below the lithosphere
5. Geology Study of how the earth formed, its structure and composition, and the
types of processes acting on it
6. Seismology Study of seismic waves
7. Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere is recycled into
the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.
8. Convection process by which heat is transferred by movement of a heated fluid
such as air or water
9. Lithosphere the crust and the uppermost part of the mantle, rigid outer shell
10. Fossils the preserved remains of plants and animals whose bodies were
buried in sediments, such as sand and mud, under ancient seas, lakes
and rivers.