Complete list of glossary words for Year 7 and 8 Science

List of 640 words (40 per topic) for Year 7 and Year 8 (8 topics in each year). I used this to ask my students to research and write down their meaning as the unit progressed, and at the end of the unit they would have this included in their notebooks. Word lists are targeted to include the central ideas and scientific vocabulary they will be acquiring in each unit.

YEAR 7
THE UNIVERSE
EXPERIMENTS
MEASURING AND STATES OF MATTER
CELLS
MICROBES AND FUNGI AND PLANTS
ANIMALS AND SAMPLING
ATMOSPHERE AND HYDROSPHERE
GEOSPHERE

YEAR 8
CELL AND ORGANISM REPRODUCTION
NUTRITION VS EXCRETION
COORDINATION
ECOLOGY
ENERGY AND WAVES
ENERGY GENERATION
ATMOSPHERE AND METEREOLOGY
TECTONICS AND LANDSCAPE