8th Grade Science Vocabulary List

Quiz Friday January 9, 2009

1. asthenia – abnormal physical weakness, lack of energy

2. primary resource –a document, speech or other sort of evidence written,
created or otherwise produced during the time under study
3. secondary resource – sources that were written about an event after it
occurred.
4. geocentric – theory of the solar system proposed by Ptolemy in which the
earth is the center of the universe
5. heliocentric – theory proposed by Polish astronomer Nicolas Copernicus
in which the sun is the central body in our solar system
6. superposition – the placing of one thing on top of the other
7. strata - distinctive beds or layers of rocks
8. unconformity – a surface that represents a missing part of the geological
column
9. geocentric column – an ideal sequence of rock layer that contains all the
known fossils and rock formations on earth arranged from oldest to
youngest
10. paradigm – a set of assumptions, concepts and values that govern our
view of reality
11. seismic – of or relating to earthquakes
12. faults- cracks in the crust of the earth