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Key Vocabulary Practice

How many science words do you remember?

Goal:

Goal:

How many science vocabulary words can you remember? Let’s find out. Look at the picture on each card and see if you can name the vocabulary word connected to it. Click on the card to see if you are right.

a grey bat flying in the dark night sky

Animals that are active at night are called nocturnal. This is a picture of a nocturnal bat.

This diagram shows how a frog grows in a circle.
This diagram shows how a frog grows in a circle. 1. It starts with a bunch of small, round eggs in the water. 2. The eggs hatch into a tadpole with a long tail for swimming. 3. Next, the tadpole grows legs and becomes a froglet. 4. Finally, it becomes an adult frog that can live on land and in water.

This picture shows the life cycle of a frog. A life cycle is the all the stages of an animal or a plant’s life.

This is a photo of a 'U' shaped magnet. One side is painted bright red with the letter 'N' for the North pole, and the other side is bright blue with the letter 'S' for the South pole.

Magnets like this one attract or pull metal, like iron, toward them.

beaver swimming with a green plant stem in its mouth

This beaver lives in a pond habitat.

A thermometer attached to a post outside with the red liquid in the thermometer pointing to 60 degrees fahrenheit.

A thermometer is used to tell the temperature.

This drawing shows two boys moving a large wooden crate.
This drawing shows two boys moving a large wooden crate. On the left, a boy in a red hat is pulling a rope to move the box toward him. On the right, a boy in a yellow shirt is pushing with his hands to move the box away from him.

There are two types of forces: push and pull.

This drawing shows three children in white lab coats having fun sliding down a long pink ramp.
This drawing shows three children in white lab coats having fun sliding down a long pink ramp. Each child is sitting inside a yellow cardboard box.

This is one type of simple machine called an inclined plane.

a close-up of fuzzy honeybee drinking nectar from purple flower

Pollinators spread pollen from flower to flower. This bee is a pollinator.