Science Vocabulary Review

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Science Vocabulary Review
Fifth Grade - 1st 9 weeks
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Matching

• Shape, color or texture that stands for something
  else
• Representation of an object
• Drawing of an area
• Any of the useful minerals or materials that
  people take from the Earth
• Mapmaker

• Model
• Map
• Cartographer
• Symbol
• Natural resources

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Keep on Matching

• Flood
• Flash Flood
• Levee
• Dam
• Contour Line
• Nonrenewable resources
• Reusable

• Line of a topographic map that connects points of
  equal elevation
• An embankment along a stream that protects land
  from flooding
• Resources that are not replaced as they are used
• A very heavy flow of water greater than normal
• Natural resources that are renewed by natural
  cycles and can be used more than once
• A construction or wall across a river that holds
  back water flowing through the river
• Water rises rapidly with little or no warning as
  a result of heavy rainfall over a relatively
  small area.

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Unscramble the words

• seba
• Bottom of the mountain
• sinooer
• Breakdown and removal of soil and rocks by
  natural forces
• yancon
• V-shaped valley formed by erosion
• ndlarmfo
• Shape or feature of the Earths surface

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More to unscramble

• taled
• Triangular deposit of minerals found at the mouth
  of a stream
• teaulap
• A large, almost level of land, lifted above the
  rest of the surrounding area
• eky
• Explanation of symbols
• npdeositio
• When eroded materials settle in other places

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You Tell Us

• Eroded earth materials that have been deposited
• Any form of water that falls from clouds such as
  rain or snow
• The process by which a liquid changes into a gas
• The process by which a gas changes back into a
  liquid
• Vertical distance or height above sea level

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You Tell Us (part 2)

• Highest point of a mountain
• Uses contour lines to show the shape and
  elevation of the Earths surface
• A large mass or body of moving ice
• A low area between two high areas often a river
  or stream flows through here
• Describes the ration between a measured distance
  on a map to the actual distance in the real world

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Spotlight on Science
Orbits
Fossil fuels
Inexhaustible
Sunspot
Corona
Natural gas
Telescope
Gravitation
Solar wind
Solar flare
Photosphere