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Wh y De f i n e t h e Wo r d s o f a Su b j e c t? If the words of a subject are not understood, the subject itself cannot be well understood and the information one is learning about cannot be easily applied. These lists are to provide you with the basic vocabulary of the subject. Fully understanding the meanings of all of the basic words of a subject while studying the subject will greatly improve one s ability in that subject. Also, the action of helping another to fully understand these basic words will increase one s own understanding and abilities even more. Without an understanding of the basic words, a person will not be able to fully learn a subject, may feel stupid in the subject and may quit studying the subject altogether. The person could even be labeled as lazy, slow, a troublemaker, sloppy, careless, etc. We have provided for you here a list of words in this subject in roughly the order a student may have been exposed to the words through his schooling. When you are closing the gaps in a student s subject understanding by helping him to build a vocabulary in that subject defining the words in this order will help to reduce the use of other more difficult words which may be found in the definitions themselves. In this way you can build from basic terms and then step-by-step up to more complex terms with greater ease. The lists have been divided up as follows: Basic: Level One: Level Two: these are the most basic words that anyone of any grade would need to know about the subject. these are the words that a student would usually first come across in grades 1 3 in the American system or for about ages 6/7 to about 9/10. these are the words that a student would usually first come across in grades 4-6 in the American system or for about ages 9 to about 11/12. Level Three: these are the words that a student would usually first come across in grade 7 in the American system or about ages 12/13. 3
Applied Scholastics The accompanying glossary 1 contains definitions and example sentences for each definition to help in fully understanding the meaning of the word. How to Define Words: Please refer to your Learning How to Learn book, the section on Learning the Meanings of Words, for the proper way to get words defined. Editor s Note: If you are using the Subject Study Guides, follow the directions in the Study Guide. In unsnarling a student s ability or understanding of the vocabulary of the subject you can just check with him as to his understanding using the glossary and fill in where needed by helping him to define those terms he does not know. Practice at what he is learning while he is learning it is also needed, most especially if it is a subject that requires function. The Editors www.appliedscholastics.org The information on this was derived from the book Learning How to Learn and its companion course Progressive Teaching Tools. Do the course at your nearest Applied Scholastics center or at the Spanish Lake Campus. 1 glossary: a list of words and their meanings in alphabetical order. 4
1. solid 2. liquid 3. gas 4. mass 5. matter 6. planet 7. earth 8. star Science Vocabulary Lists Basic Science Vocabulary List 9. sun 10. physical 11. body 12. grow 13. living 14. life 15. nonliving 16. human 17. plant 18. animal 19. nature 20. natural 21. fact 22. space 23. science 1. temperature 2. air 3. cold 4. hot 5. heat 6. weather 7. fuel 8. light 9. surface 10. center 11. flower 12. season 13. autumn 14. fall 15. spring 16. winter 17. summer 18. food 19. cold-blooded 20. bird Level One Science Words List 21. warm-blooded 22. fish 23. insect 24. reptile 25. amphibians 26. mammals 27. birth 28. death 29. bone 30. skeleton 31. moon 32. universe 33. ocean 34. rain 35. water 36. glass 37. metal 38. senses 39. sight 40. smell 41. taste 42. touch 43. hear 44. sound 45. diet 46. food pyramid 47. blood 48. geography 49. environment 50. earthquake 51. solar 52. weight 53. oxygen 54. invisible 55. internal 56. recycle 57. experiment 58. substance 59. drug 60. knowledge 5
1. scientific 2. scientist 3. food chain 4. climate 5. rain forest 6. endanger 7. extinct 8. evolution 9. health 10. heart 11. artery 12. veins 13. circulation 14. produce 15. reproduce 16. reproduction 17. respiratory 18. species 19. endangered species 20. hibernation 21. oil 22. function 23. motion 24. nutrient 25. digest 26. digestion 27. disease 28. observation Applied Scholastics Level Two Science Vocabulary List 29. lab/laboratory 30. magnify 31. cell 32. microscope 33. dissect 34. absorb 35. dissolve 36. mixture 37. solution 38. mineral 39. fungus 40. mold 41. resource 42. natural resource 43. conservation 44. tide 45. chemical 46. element 47. compound 48. phenomenon/ phenomena 49. decompose 50. bacteria 51. circulatory 52. system 53. digestive system 54. structure 55. characteristic 56. trait 57. heredity 58. inherited 59. biodegradable 60. nonbiodegradable 61. ingestion 62. category 63. classification 64. kingdom 65. fossil 66. orbit 67. solar system 68. satellite 69. telescope 70. atmosphere 71. pollution 72. extinct species 73. habitat 74. power 75. energy 76. force 77. organic 78. organism 79. gravity 80. gravitation 81. theory 6
1. faculty 2. stimulus/stimuli 3. earth science 4. agriculture 5. anatomy 6. astronomy 7. biology 8. life science 9. botany 10. chemistry 11. geology 12. meteorology 13. oceanography 14. physics 15. physical science Science Vocabulary Lists Level Three Science Vocabulary List 16. zoology 17. electricity 18. resistance 19. amp 20. volt 21. voltage 22. watt 23. ohm 24. momentum 25. current 26. pressure 27. front 28. ozone 29. ozone layer 30. component 31. toxic 32. formula 33. hydrogen 34. DNA 35. atom 36. nucleus 37. nuclear 38. electron 39. molecule 40. neutron 41. proton 42. translucent 43. transparent 44. ultraviolet 7
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