Vocabulary Quiz
The Science STAAR test will be on April 23rd. There will be a practice STAAR test on Thursday, February 19th. Every topic we have learned this year will be on the STAAR test and we will begin reviewing this material. There will be several grades taken from this material and I wanted to make you aware of the dates.
To review the vocabulary, the students will be taking 8 vocabulary quizzes. The students have been given the words to study for the first quiz. Eight grades will have a large impact on your student’s average. Please have your student study the night before the quiz dates listed below.
· QUIZ # 1- Tuesday, February 10th
· QUIZ # 2- Wednesday, February 18th
· QUIZ # 3- Tuesday, February 24th
· QUIZ # 4- Thursday, February 26th
· QUIZ # 5- Tuesday, March 3rd
· QUIZ # 6- Thursday, March 5th
· QUIZ # 7- Thursday, March 12th
· QUIZ # 8- Tuesday, March 24th
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TEST ONE WORDS - TEST DATE Tuesday Feb 10
Vocabulary Quiz #1
Quiz date: Tuesday, February 10th
1. inherited traits: characteristics passed down from parents to
offspring
2. adaptation: a change an organism undergoes in order to survive
3. reproduce: to make offspring
4. instinctive behaviors: behaviors that are inherited
5. learned behaviors: behaviors that are learned
6. hibernation: a state of sleep
7. migration: the seasonal movement of animals from one place to
another
1. Producer: organisms that make their own food
2. consumers: animals that eat other organisms
3. herbivores: animals that eat only plants
4. carnivores: animals that eat only other animals
5. omnivores: animals that eat both plants and animals
6. predators: animals that hunt other animals for food
7. prey: animals that are hunted by predators
8. decomposers: organisms that feed on dead plants and animals,
as well as animal wastes
9. food chain: the path of energy from the sun to a plant to an
animal to another animal
10. food web: a group of overlapping food chains
Review Games with List 1
Vocabulary Quiz #2
Quiz date: Wednesday, February 18th
1. habitat: the specific environment where an organism lives
2. species: a group of organisms that produce offspring like
themselves
3. population: all the organisms of the same species that live in the
same area at the same time
4. community: populations of different species that live in the same
area at the same time
5. ecosystem: all the populations of organisms and the nonliving
things in an environment, and the interaction among
them
6. biome: one of the six major land areas of the world that is home
to specific plant and animal populations and is defined by
its climate
7. drought: a period of little rain
8. flood: an overflow of water onto land that is normally dry
9. thrive: to grow in a strong and healthy way
10. perish: to die
1. organisms: living things
2. carbon dioxide: a gas in the atmosphere that plants use during
the process of photosynthesis
3. photosynthesis: the process in which plants use energy from the
sun to make their own food
4. carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle: the movement of carbon dioxide
and oxygen between organisms and the air
5. roots: plant parts that hold a plant in place and take in water
6. stem: a plant part that holds leaves up and moves water and
nutrients throughout the plant
7. leaf: a part of the plant that carries out photosynthesis