Vocabulary

Evolution Unit 1

  1. The Full Course
    1. Antibiotic
    2. Antibiotic resistance
    3. Changing environment
  2. Hiding in the Background
    1. Pattern
    2. Trait
    3. Variation
    4. Population
  3. A Meeting of the Minds
    1. Adaptation
    2. Evolve
    3. Gene
    4. Natural Selection
    5. Trait
    6. Variation
    7. Populations
  4. Battling Beaks
    1. Evolution
    2. Gene
    3. Mutation
    4. Variation
    5. Natural selection
  5. Mutations: Good or Bad?
    1. Genes
    2. Mutation
    3. Natural selection
    4. Trait
    5. Variation
    6. Genes evolution
    7. structure/function
  6. Mutations and Evolution
    1. Evolution
    2. Mutation
    3. Populations
    4. Traits
    5. variation
    6. cause/effect
  7. Origin of the Species
    1. Species
    2. Speciation
    3. Diversity
    4. evolution
  8. History and Diversity of Life
    1. Ancestor
    2. ancestral species
    3. Evolution
    4. Extinction
    5. Natural selection
    6. Speciation
    7. Species
    8. Diversity
    9. Phylogenetic Trees
  9. Fossil Evidence
    1. Fossil
    2. Law of superposition
    3. Paleontologist
    4. Stratigraphic column
    5. Geologic time scale
  10. Fossilized Footprints
    1. Hypothesis
    2. Inference (evidence v. Inference)
    3. Observation
    4. Trace fossils
  11. Family Histories
    1. Evolution
    2. Fossil
    3. Speciation
    4. Evolutionary tree
    5. Extinction
    6. classes
  12. A Whale of a Tale
    1. Embryo
    2. Evolution
    3. Extinct
    4. Natural selection
    5. speciation
  13. Embryology
    1. Embryo
    2. Pattern
    3. Evolution
    4. embryology
  14. The Sixth Extinction?
    1. Extinction
    2. Extinction events
    3. Evidence and trade offs
  15. Bacteria and Bugs: Evolution of Resistance
    1. Evolution
    2. Natural selection
    3. Chemical resistance
  16. Manipulating Genes
    1. Genetic modification
    2. Selective breeding
    3. Genetically modified organism
    4. Genetic engineering
    5. Artificial selection
  17. Evolution and Us
    1. Evolution
    2. Natural selection

Solar System and Beyond Unit 2


  1. Solar System and Beyond
    1. Evidence
    2. Trade-offs
    3. spacecraft
    4. Space exploration
  2. The Predictable Moon
    1. Cycle
    2. Observation
    3. Moon phase
    4. Pattern
  3. Explaining the Moon’s Phases
    1. Model
    2. Observation
    3. Orbit
    4. system
  4. Moon phases Simulation
    1. Cycle
    2. Model
    3. Moon Phases
  5. The Moon’s Orbit
    1. Lunar eclipse
    2. Orbital plane
    3. Solar eclipse
  6. Changing Sunlight
    1. observation
  7. A Year Viewed from Space
    1. Earth’s axis
    2. Earth’s tilt
    3. orbit
  8. Earth’s Tilt
    1. Earth’s tilt
    2. Model
    3. pattern
  9. Earth on the Move
    1. Earth’s axis
    2. Earth’s tilt
    3. orbit
  10. Observing Objects in Space
    1. Astronomer
    2. Galaxy
    3. Observation
    4. Solar system
  11. Drawing the Solar System
    1. Model
    2. scale
  12. How Big are the Planets?
    1. Model
    2. scale
  13. Identifying Planets
    1. spacecraft
  14. Gravitational Force
    1. Gravitational force
    2. Gravity
    3. Mass
    4. orbit
  15. The Effects of Gravity
    1. Galaxy
    2. Gravitational force
    3. Gravity
    4. Mass
    5. orbit
  16. Modeling Gravity
    1. galaxy
  17. Choosing a Mission
    1. Evidence
    2. Spacecraft
    3. trade-offs

Force and Motion Unit 3


engineer

evidence

trade- offs

speed

velocity

acceleration

slope

energy

kinetic energy

potential energy

force

inertia

moving

changes in motion

Newton's 1st Law

Newton's 2nd Law

Newton's 3rd Law

Friction

Balanced Forces

Unbalanced Forces

accelerate

Newton (N)

criteria

constraint

system

breaking distance

reaction distance

reaction time

stopping distance



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