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Science Video Vocab

Science Video Vocab

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This dynamic science series defines and helps students explore science terms. Each program is designed to reinforce and support students' comprehension and retention of these terms through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams, graphics, and labels. Viewers will see and hear the terms used in a variety of contexts, providing a model for how to use the words appropriately. Related words are also used and reinforced with visuals and text.

Large turtle swimming on the ocean floor. Caption: Every living thing gets energy from food.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 101
4 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Closeup of a cluster of mushrooms. Fungi decomposer. Caption: Fungi are another type of decomposer.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 102
3 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Adult dog with a puppy. Caption: Innate means you we're born with them.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 103
3 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Giraffes in natural habitat. Caption: Imprinted behaviors are fairly permanent,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 104
2 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 1 - 4
Diagram showing a lung structure with no mucus reaching into tissue below and the same lung structure covered in mucus unable to do the same thing. Caption: The mucus clogs the lungs and causes infections.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 105
5 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Gorilla, chimpanzee, humans. Family is Hominid.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 106
3 minutes 34 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
A duck, flamingo, and cardinal. Class is Aves. Caption: All birds are part of class Aves.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 107
3 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Graphic of light and dark blue spheres of various sizes. Caption: The food molecules fuel cellular respiration.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 108
2 minutes 40 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person placing one edge of a cover slip onto a glass slide. Place cover slip onto slide. Caption: Touch one side of the cover slip to the slide.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 109
2 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Negative feedback loop. Control center (brain), effector, response, feedback, stimuli, receptor, back to control center. Caption: The control center determines the appropriate response.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 110
2 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Person weighing a beaker on a triple beam scale. Caption: The triple beam balance may only be accurate to the nearest gram.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 111
2 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Two people looking at a laptop screen. Caption: When work begins, keep the MSDS close
Science Video Vocab
Episode 112
2 minutes 43 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Person wearing safety goggles and pouring something down the drain of a sink. A red circle with a line through it covers the container being poured down the drain. Caption: They cannot be washed down the drain
Science Video Vocab
Episode 113
2 minutes 27 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Green treetops looking over a lake with puffy clouds in a blue sky. Caption: First, moisture is needed to form clouds and precipitation.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 114
3 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
People working in a science lab. Caption: That's why it's important to follow basic safety rules.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 115
3 minutes 37 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
People wearing rubber gloves, plastic aprons, and protective goggles in a science classroom. Caption: It's vital to wear the right type of clothing for lab safety.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 116
4 minutes 6 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Aerial view of snow-and-ice-covered rock surrounded by icy water. Caption: Glaciers and icecaps are frozen year round,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 117
3 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Two people looking at yellow fluid in a bottle. Caption: in a universal scientific language.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 118
3 minutes 41 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Green patchwork fields with a mountain rising in the background. Clouds cover most of the blue sky. Caption: Clouds can form at any height above the ground.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 119
3 minutes 17 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Land and ocean as seen from above with tectonic plates outlined. Caption: The tectonic plates naturally move along their edges
Science Video Vocab
Episode 120
3 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Desert with low scrub and red rock formations rising in the distance. Caption: There are hot deserts and cold deserts.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 121
4 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Aerial view of small islands covered in greenery with the water between them dotted in plants. Caption: The Everglades is the largest remaining subtropical wilderness
Science Video Vocab
Episode 122
2 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Muddy water rushing through a rocky channel. Caption: Floods are the most common and expensive natural disasters.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 123
3 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Derrick pumping oil. Caption: The oil is then pumped out of the ground.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 124
4 minutes 20 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Forested mountain side. Caption: Forests grow all over the world and are very important
Science Video Vocab
Episode 125
4 minutes 14 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Microscopic view of bell-shaped organisms on a fine stalk. Caption: All protists share common characteristics.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 126
2 minutes 35 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Steep rocky mountain partially covered in snow and ice. Caption: As the glacier grows, the ice flows down the mountain
Science Video Vocab
Episode 127
3 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Industrial plant with smokestacks emitting pollutants. Caption: Increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 128
2 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Illustration of a tropical rainforest. Caption: Scientists divide the tropical rainforest into five layers
Science Video Vocab
Episode 129
4 minutes 50 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Closeup of a fern leaf with water dripping from it. Caption: Precipitation is a major part of the water cycle
Science Video Vocab
Episode 130
2 minutes 53 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Butterfly lays the egg, egg hatches to larva, larva changes into a pupa, pupa turns into a butterfly. Caption: They are egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 131
4 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Rough ocean water covering beach and surrounding areas. Caption: Hurricanes are huge storms that are given names
Science Video Vocab
Episode 132
3 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Map of the world with parts highlighted in green. Caption: Grasslands are found on every continent
Science Video Vocab
Episode 133
2 minutes 11 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Closeup of a mottled brown spider. Caption: arachnids and crustaceans, have a skeleton on the outside
Science Video Vocab
Episode 134
2 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Lava from a volcano cooling as it hits a body of water. Caption: Volcanic eruptions can also cause tsunamis.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 135
2 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Tornado swirling in the middle of a field. Caption: The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous damage,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 136
2 minutes 55 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Mouth of a cave. Caption: Caves exist all over the world and come in many sizes
Science Video Vocab
Episode 137
3 minutes 24 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Landslide on the side of a mountain. Caption: Sometimes landslides are small, and hardly noticeable.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 138
2 minutes 36 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
A patch of dried, cracked, mud. Caption: There are three types of drought…
Science Video Vocab
Episode 138
2 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Buses and taxis drive on a city street lined with trees and buildings. Caption. It is the foundation of the world's infrastructure.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 139
3 minutes 25 seconds
Grade Level: 6 - 9
Three blade wind turbine as seen from below. Caption: Wind turbines are mounted on high towers.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 140
3 minutes 22 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Computerized image of a skull. Caption: The axial skeleton consists of the skull,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 141
2 minutes 31 seconds
Grade Level: 8 - 12
Cement cracked and broken down the center. Caption: Earthquakes cause rapid movement of the Earth's crust,
Science Video Vocab
Episode 142
4 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 5 - 8
Blue and white grid backdrop overlaid with text that reads, "The dangers of smoking." Caption. Of preventable deaths in the United States.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 143
3 minutes 44 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Digital rendering of a transparent human form displaying internal organs. Caption. Autoimmune diseases affect various organs and body systems.
Science Video Vocab
Episode 144
3 minutes 23 seconds
Grade Level: 9 - 12