Science Glossary

1,336 words. Living things, materials, forces, Earth and space. Learn the words scientists use to describe what they see and test.

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An adaptation is a feature or behaviour that helps a living thing survive in its habitat.

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Condensation is when a gas cools and changes into a liquid. In the water cycle, water vapour cools and turns into tiny drops of liquid water.

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Evaporation is when a liquid changes into a gas. In the water cycle, liquid water changes into water vapour, an invisible gas in the air.

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A food chain shows how food and energy pass from one living thing to the next. The arrows point from the food to the animal that eats it.

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A habitat is the natural place where a plant or animal lives and finds what it needs to survive: food, water, shelter and space.

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Photosynthesis is how green plants make their own food. They use light energy, water and carbon dioxide, and they release oxygen.

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A predator is an animal that hunts and eats other animals.

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A producer is a living thing, such as a plant, that makes its own food using energy from sunlight.