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For each keyword you should know the definition and any relevant examples.

Also, for some concepts a diagram may be important.

Adaptation: Behavioural VS Physical

Atmosphere: Mesosphere, Stratosphere, Thermosphere, Troposphere

Atom VS Compound VS Molecule

Biosphere

Cell: Plant VS Animal, Organelles (cell membrane, cell wall, chloroplasts, cytoplasm, nuclear membrane, nucleus, vacuole). Which organelles are in a plant cell but not an animal cell?

Change: Chemical VS Physical. Describe some of the clues used to identify which type of change has occurred.

Crust VS Mantle VS Core

Diffusion VS Osmosis

Earthquakes (seismic waves). What causes earthquakes?

Erosion (Biological, Chemical, Mechanical)

Evolution: Charles Darwin, Natural selection

Food chain/web: Carnivore, Consumers, Decomposers, Herbivore, Omnivore, Producers, Scavenger

Habitat VS Niche

Hydrosphere: Water cycle (Condensation, Evaporation, Infiltration, Precipitation, Runoff), Acid rain

Lithosphere

Matter

Orogenesis (mountains)

Periodic Table: Element, Family, Period

PH: Acid, Base, Neutral. What is the pH level of an acid? What is the pH level of a base? What is the pH level of a neutral substance?

Population

Properties: Characteristic (boiling point, density, melting point) VS Non-Characteristic (acidity, alkalinity, mass, state [gas, liquid, solid], temperature, volume). What is the formula for density?

Pure Substance VS Mixtures: Heterogeneous, Homogeneous, Separation techniques (sedimentation, decantation, filtration, distillation), Soluble, Solute, Solution, Solvent. For each separation technique describe the type of mixture it could be used to separate.

Rock (Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary) VS Mineral: Cleavage, Density, Effervescence, Hardness, Lustre, Magnetism, Streak Colour

Taxonomy: Genus, Species

Tectonic plates: Fault, Trench

Volcanoes. What causes volcanoes?

 

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