Grade 7 Science Vocabulary Cards | Metabolism | Body Systems, Cells & Energy

Help students build a strong understanding of metabolism, cellular respiration, digestion, body systems, nutrient absorption, and how cells obtain the molecules and energy they need with this engaging Grade 7 Metabolism Science Vocabulary Card Set.

This resource includes 50 vocabulary cards designed to strengthen science language through repeated reading, speaking, and application. Each card includes a student-friendly meaning, a science-based example sentence, and three built-in prompts: How do you spell ___?, What is ___?, and Use ___ in a sentence.

Students work with essential metabolism concepts such as cell, metabolism, cellular respiration, chemical reaction, energy, glucose, oxygen, nutrient, molecule, amino acid, protein, starch, complex carbohydrate, growth, and repair. These terms help students understand how the body breaks down food, transports molecules, and uses those molecules for energy and growth.

The set places a strong emphasis on cellular respiration and energy use. Students explore how cells use glucose and oxygen during cellular respiration to release energy needed for movement, growth, repair, and other life functions.

Each vocabulary card includes:

• Large, easy-to-read science vocabulary term
• Clear student-friendly definition
• Meaningful science example sentence
• Three reusable vocabulary and discussion prompts
• Colorful science-themed design
• Coordinating cover/backing pages for double-sided printing

Students also investigate how multiple human body systems work together. Vocabulary includes digestive system, circulatory system, respiratory system, heart, lung, intestine, small intestine, stomach, pancreas, blood, plasma, capillary, red blood cell, alveoli, and villi. These terms help students trace how food and oxygen enter the body, are transported through the blood, and eventually reach cells.

The cards also connect structure and function with vocabulary such as cell, tissue, organ, system, function, absorb, capillary, villi, and small intestine. Students can use this language to explain how specialized structures allow molecules such as glucose, oxygen, and amino acids to move throughout the body.

The resource also includes medically relevant vocabulary such as anemia, asthma, diabetes, insulin, pancreas, diagnose, and heart rate. These terms provide meaningful contexts for students to investigate what can happen when cells do not receive enough oxygen or glucose and how scientists can use evidence to identify problems within body systems.

Science practices are reinforced with vocabulary including analyze, claim, evidence, inference, investigation, model, reasoning, diagnose, and function. Students gain academic language for examining data, identifying possible causes, developing claims, and using evidence and reasoning to explain how body systems are functioning.

Perfect for: Grade 7 science • Metabolism • Cellular respiration • Human body systems • Digestion and absorption • Circulatory system • Respiratory system • Cells and energy • Nutrients and molecules • Science centers • Vocabulary stations • Small groups • Partner practice • Intervention • Review

Use these cards for whole-class review, science centers, vocabulary games, partner questioning, word walls, morning work, early finishers, small-group instruction, intervention, or test preparation. They can also be placed on a ring to create a portable science vocabulary review deck.

Prep is simple: print, cut, laminate if desired, and begin using immediately.

This colorful, student-friendly resource makes Metabolism vocabulary visual, interactive, and easy to reinforce throughout the unit.