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Middle School Science Key Topics

The document outlines the key science topics covered in middle school by grade: - Sixth grade covers properties of minerals and rocks, states of matter, energy, cells, and cell division. - Seventh grade covers the water cycle, atmospheric and ocean currents, properties of the atmosphere, positions of Earth and sun, and energy transfer. - Eighth grade covers the composition and forces within Earth, plate tectonics, geological processes, forces within the universe, evolution, reproduction, and heredity.

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Middle School Science Key Topics

The document outlines the key science topics covered in middle school by grade: - Sixth grade covers properties of minerals and rocks, states of matter, energy, cells, and cell division. - Seventh grade covers the water cycle, atmospheric and ocean currents, properties of the atmosphere, positions of Earth and sun, and energy transfer. - Eighth grade covers the composition and forces within Earth, plate tectonics, geological processes, forces within the universe, evolution, reproduction, and heredity.

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Middle School Science Key Topics

Sixth Grade Seventh grade Eighth grade

● Properties of minerals ● The hydrologic cycle ● Composition and properties of


● Classification of rocks ● Relationship between thermal Earth’s interior
energy and currents ● Seismic waves
● Characteristics of igneous,
● Patterns in atmospheric and ● Plate tectonics and landforms
metamorphic, and sedimentary oceanic currents ● Geologic processes that formed
rocks ● Different properties of the
Earth's surface
● Common and practical uses of atmosphere at different elevations
● Geologic record is evidence of the
● The mixture of gases that cycle
rocks, minerals, and soil dynamic changes of Earth’s
through Earth’s layers
● Matter is made up of atoms ● The relevant position and surface
● Explanation for changes of state movement of the Earth, sun and ● Magnetic, electrostatic and
moon gravitational fields
through matter particles
● Positions of Earth and the sun ● Forces can act to change the
● Kinetic and potential energy
cause solar and lunar eclipses, motion of objects
● Linear motion tides, phases of the moon, and ● Forces around the Earth and
● Cells are the fundamental unit of seasons within the universe
life ● The organization of elements in ● Evolution and extinction of species
the periodic table by their ● Fossil records are evidence of
● Cells come from preexisting cells
properties
● Cells carry on specific functions changes within species
● Energy is transformed or
● Sexual and asexual reproduction
that sustain life transferred but never lost
● Mitosis and meiosis
● Cell division ● Transfer of energy
● Energy transfer through organisms ● Inherited traits
● Biotic and abiotic factors

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