Week 3 : Vocabulary Quiz
Directions: Column A contains a list of science vocabulary words. Column B
contains brief descriptions of Week Three’s vocabulary. Indicate which science
vocabulary word matches the description by placing the appropriate letter to the
left of the number in Column A.
Column A
_____1. energy pyramid
Column B
a. the interconnected feeding relationships
in a food chain found in a particular
place and time
_____2. energy transfer
_____3. environment
b. the sum of conditions affecting an
organism, including all living and
nonliving things in an area, such as
plants, animals, water, soil, weather,
landforms, and air
_____4. equator
_____5. erosion
_____6. evaporation
c. a pyramidal diagram that compares the
amount of energy available at each
position, or level, in the feeding order
d. a quality that tends to produce
movement or acceleration of a body in
the direction of its application; a push or
pull
_____7. experiment
_____8. food chain
_____9. food web (food cycle)
_____10. force
e. the wearing away of Earth’s surface by
the breakdown and transportation of
rock and soil
f. a procedure that is carried out and
repeated under controlled conditions in
order to discover, demonstrate, or test a
hypothesis; includes all components of
the scientific method
g. transfer of energy through various stages
as a result of feeding pattern of a series
of organisms
h. the process by which a liquid is
converted to its vapor phase by heating
the liquid
i. a change of energy from one form to
another (e.g., mechanical to electrical,
solar to electrical)
j. an imaginary circle around Earth’s surface
located between the poles and a plane
perpendicular to its axis of rotation that
divides it into Northern and Southern
Hemispheres
Week 3 : Vocabulary Quiz
Directions: Column A contains a list of science vocabulary words. Column B
contains brief descriptions of Week Three’s vocabulary. Indicate which science
vocabulary word matches the description by placing the appropriate letter to the
left of the number in Column A.
Column A
c 1. energy pyramid
Column B
a. the interconnected feeding relationships
in a food chain found in a particular
place and time
i 2. energy transfer
b 3. environment
b. the sum of conditions affecting an
organism, including all living and
nonliving things in an area, such as
plants, animals, water, soil, weather,
landforms, and air
j 4. equator
e 5. erosion
h 6. evaporation
c. a pyramidal diagram that compares the
amount of energy available at each
position, or level, in the feeding order
d. a quality that tends to produce
movement or acceleration of a body in
the direction of its application; a push or
pull
f 7. experiment
g 8. food chain
a 9. food web (food cycle)
d 10. force
e. the wearing away of Earth’s surface by
the breakdown and transportation of
rock and soil
f. a procedure that is carried out and
repeated under controlled conditions in
order to discover, demonstrate, or test a
hypothesis; includes all components of
the scientific method
g. transfer of energy through various stages
as a result of feeding pattern of a series
of organisms
h. the process by which a liquid is
converted to its vapor phase by heating
the liquid
i. a change of energy from one form to
another (e.g., mechanical to electrical,
solar to electrical)
j. an imaginary circle around Earth’s surface
located between the poles and a plane
perpendicular to its axis of rotation that
divides it into Northern and Southern
Hemispheres