The document defines science vocabulary terms for 3rd grade including: life cycle, embryo, germinate, heredity, characteristics passed from parents to offspring such as color, flowering plants that produce seeds in flowers, conifers like pine and spruce trees that produce seeds in cones, pollen as a powdery material needed by eggs to make seeds which can be transferred by wind, insects or birds, cuttings as pieces of a parent plant used to grow a new plant, and a bulb as an underground stem.