Bullhead City Elementary School District
Science Academic Vocabulary - Grade 6
1. absorption
2. analyze
3. analyze data
4. animal cells
5. apply
6. appraise
7. appropriate graphic
8. argue
9. assemble
10. atmosphere
11. balances
12. cause-and-effect chain
13. cell membrane
14. cell wall
15. choose
16. circulation
17. classifying
18. climate
19. collected data
20. communicate
21. comparing
22. composition
23. conclusion
24. conduct
25. conduction
26. construct
27. contrast
28. contributions
29. control
30. controlled investigation
31. convection
32. correlation
33. create
34. criticize
35. cultures
36. cycled
37. data
38. decade
39. decision making situations
40. defend
41. define
42. demonstrate
43. describe
44. design
45. develop
46. development
47. differentiate
48. digestion
49. discoveries
50. discriminate
51. discuss
52. display data
53. distinguish
54. distribution
55. diverse
56. double bar graph
57. dramatize
58. drought
59. duplicate
60. ecosystems
61. effects
62. electrical energy
63. elevation
64. employ
65. energy
66. environmental conditions
67. evaluate
68. examine
69. experiment
70. explain
71. flooding
72. form
73. formulate
74. function
75. generate
76. geotropism
77. graphs
78. hierarchy
79. histogram
80. hurricane
81. hydrosphere
82. hydrotropism
83. hypothesis
84. identify
85. illustrate
86. impact
87. inferring
88. influences
89. innovations
90. interactions
91. interpret
92. investigation
93. judge
94. knowledge
95. large-scale weather
96. lightning-caused fire
97. line graph
98. list
99. lithosphere
100. locate
101. location
102. locomotion
103. logical argument
104. logs
105. major
106. materials
107. measuring
108. mechanical
109. memorize
110. micrometers
111. microscopes
112. milestone
113. natural disasters
114. natural hazards
115. nonrenewable
116. nucleus
117. observing
118. ocean currents
119. ongoing process
120. operate
121. organisms
122. organizing
123. paraphrase
124. perform measurements
125. personal pronouns
126. phototropism
127. plant cell
128. predict
129. prediction
130. prevailing theories
131. probes
132. problem solving
133. procedure
134. processes
135. properties
136. qualitative information
137. quality of life
138. quantitative information
139. questioning
140. radiation
141. recall
142. recognize
143. region
144. relate
145. remember
146. renewable
147. repeat
148. report
149. representation
150. reproduce
151. resources
152. respiration
153. response
154. results
155. revolutionized
156. sandstorm
157. schedule
158. science-related careers
159. scientific
160. select
161. sequence of events
162. sketch
163. solve
164. state
165. stem and leaf plot
166. stimulus
167. structure
168. support
169. system model
170. systems
171. tables
172. technology
173. test
174. thermal
175. thermal energy
176. tool
177. tornado
178. transformed
179. translate
180. transpiration
181. trends
182. ultraviolet light
183. understand
184. use
185. value
186. variables
187. verify
188. viable methods
189. vital function
190. weather
191. write