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End of Year Benchmark
Earth's layers, plate tectonics, rocks & minerals, solar system, classification of living things, ecosystem
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Science
6th Grade
05/08/2013

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convergent boundary
Definition
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makes mountains, volcanoes, trenches
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divergent boundary
Definition
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makes rifts and ridges, ocean basins
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tranform boundary
Definition
makes earthquakes
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igneous rock
Definition
made from cooled magma/lava
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metamorphic rock
Definition
made from heat and pressure
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sedimentary rock
Definition
made from sediments pressed and cemented together
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gravity
Definition
the force that governs our solar system
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inner planets
Definition
rocky and small
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outer planets
Definition
gas giants, longer revolutions/orbits
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asteroids
Definition
made of rock and some metal
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comets
Definition
made of ice and dust
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meteors
Definition
broken rocks in Earth's atmosphere
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tectonic plates
Definition
be able to label on a world map!
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Earth's layers
Definition
be able to label a diagram
including lithosphere and asthenosphere!
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luster
Definition
how a rock or mineral refects light
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streak
Definition
the color of a mineral on a streak plate
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hardness
Definition
the ability of a mineral to be scratched
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Project Mercury
Definition
to get a man to space and back
orbit the Earth
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Project Gemini
Definition
2 man spacecraft, spacewalk, docking
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Project Apollo
Definition
to get to the moon
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Space Shuttle
Definition
first re-usable vehicle
transport to International Space Station
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prokaryote
Definition
no nucleus
only in bacteria
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eukaryote
Definition
has a nucleus
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unicellular
Definition
made of 1 cell
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multicellular
Definition
made of more than 1 cell
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autotroph
Definition
makes own food
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heterotroph
Definition
has to consume food for energy
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asexual reproduction
Definition
offspring comes from 1 parent
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sexual reproduction
Definition
offspring comes from 2 parents
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budding
Definition
new organism grows out of the body of the parent
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binary fission
Definition
when one cell splits into 2 cells
Term
spore
Definition
special cell that can grow into a new organism
Term
pollination
Definition
transfer of pollen from the male to female parts of a flowering plant
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abiotic
Definition
non-living
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biotic
Definition
living or once living
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ecosystem levels
Definition
organism-one living thing
community-a group of organisms
population-all living things in an area
ecosystem-all living and non-living things in an area
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