Science Terminology for 11-13 Yr Olds --- (Jon Witts)


Note: You may download the entries for this glossary here. If you wish to use this in your own Moodle course, first make a blank glossary and then follow the instructions for importing glossary entries here.

This contains 12 individual glossaries based on the units from UK Year 8 Key Stage 3 Science.[11-13 Yr Olds] 

They are:

<><><><><>

  • Food and Digestion Glossary
  • Respiration Glossary
  • Microbes and Disease Glossary
  • Ecological Relationships Glossary
  • Atoms and Elements Glossary
  • Compounds and Mixtures Glossary
  • Rocks and Weathering Glossary
  • The Rock Cycle Glossary
  • Heating and Cooling Glossary
  • Magnets and Electromagnets Glossary
  • Light Glossary
  • Sound and Hearing Glossary 


Browse the glossary using this index

Special | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | ALL

Page: (Previous)   1  ...  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  ...  22  (Next)
  ALL

F

fibre

food used to keep waste moving through your digestive system.

Filtered

solid bits are separated from a mixture

Food chain

a diagram showing what an animal eats and what eats it

Food web

a diagram made of lots of joined up food chains, showing what eats what in a habitat and the flow of energy

Fossils

remains of plant or animal material found in rock

Freezes

changes from liquid to solid state

Frequency

number of vibrations a second

G

Gaseous exchange

when oxygen passes into the blood and carbon dioxide is moved out of the blood, takes place in the alveoli

Geologist

a scientist who studies the Earth

Grains

the usually small fragments or crystals that make up a rock

Page: (Previous)   1  ...  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12  13  14  ...  22  (Next)
  ALL