Questions Answers

1. If you are given a picture and asked

to make an OBSERVATION, you things that you can actually see with
must choose the answer that your own eyes
includes only:

2. Which is NOT an observation I

could make while looking up at the
"Soon it's going to rain" is not an
sky? "The sky is blue." "A big, dark
observation. It is a prediction.
cloud is moving in" "Soon it's going
to rain."

3. The mass of an object is: the amount of matter in an object

4. Given a 2-liter bottle of Coke, 2 the volume of Coke - or how much

liters is a measure of: space it takes up.

5. The capacity of a container is how

much it can hold. The capacity our
2 liters
large Coke bottle, even if it is
empty, is:

6. The capacity of an eyedropper

milliliters
would be a few:

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 7. A milliliter of liquid is: a few drops

8. The volume of liquid in a graduated

ml or 50 milliliters
cylinder might be 50:

9. The volume of liquid in a beaker

ml or 300 milliliters
might be 300:

10. One thousand milliliters equals: 1 liter

11. A liter is close in volume to a: quart

12. An instrument used to measure

balance
mass is a:

13. The mass of a paperclip or a sheet

1 gram or 1g
of paper is about:

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 14. The mass of a book could be
1 kilogram or 1kg
about:

15. 1000 grams equal: 1 kilogram

millimeters (mm) 10mm=1cm

16. Length and distance are measured centimeters (cm) 100cm=1m
in these metric units: meters (m) 1000m=1km
kilometers (km)

17. Volume of a liquid or capacity of a

milliliters (mL)
container is measured in these
liters (L) 1000mL=1L
metric units:

18. Mass is measured in these metric grams (g) 1000g=1kg

units: kilograms (kg)

19. A centimeter is about as long as

fingernail
your:

20. The length of each of these dashes

1 or 2 millimeters (mm)
- - - is about:

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21. If your fingernail is one centimeter
10 (10mm = 1cm)
long, how long is it in millimeters?

22. The distance from your waist to the

1 meter or 1m
floor could be about:

23. One-hundred centimeters equals: 1 meter

24. One thousand meters equals: 1 kilometer or 1km

25. In an experiment to measure the

how different types of soil affect
tulip growth, you fill five identical
soil
pots with different types of soil and
place a tulip bulb in each. The
variable in the experiment is the:

26. The pots, tulip bulbs, water and

amount of sunlight are should be
constants
the same for all of the pots. These
are the:

27. For accuracy, you perform the

experiment many times. In the first
three trials, the tulip in sandy soil The 4th trial (15cm) because it is
grows only 10cm tall before dying. different from the others.
The 4th trial, the tulip grows 15cm
tall and flowers. Which result is

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 unusual?

28. Objects in motion have ______

kinetic
energy.

29. Potential energy is ________

stored
energy.

30. Due to the pull of gravity, the

higher an object is off the ground, potential energy
the more ____________ it has.

31. When I hold a ball

in the air, it has
potential energy.
kinetic energy
When I let go, the
ball starts to fall. Potential energy
changes to:

32. There are many forms of energy.

Energy caused by the movement of electrical energy
electrons is:

33. Energy in moving or spinning

objects like gears, car wheels, mechanical
or joggers, is _______ energy:

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 34. Machines make work easier and
efficiently
help us work more:

35. Two objects rubbing together

friction
create:

36. Friction resists or stops motion,

heat
and creates:

37. Unless acted on by a force, objects

in motion tend to stay in motion and
inertia
objects at rest remain at rest. This
is the principal of:

38. It's harder to push a real truck than

a toy truck because objects with more inertia
more mass have:

39. Which will light a bulb, an open or

A closed circuit
closed circuit?

40. If your string of holiday

lights goes dark when
series circuit
one little bulb burns
out, the string of lights is a:

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41. This circuit has more than
one pathway for the flow of
electrical current. If one bulb parallel circuit
burns the others will remain
lit. It is a:

42. Electrical energy moves easily

conductors
through materials that are:

43. Wires are usual made from ____

metal (often copper)
because it conducts electricity well.

44. Material like rubber,

plastic and wood do
not conduct electricity insulators
well. They are:

45. Magnets attract these metals: iron (steel) cobalt, nickel

46. The iron filings

in this picture
show ________c lines of force
reated by a
magnetic field.

47. Magnetism and _______ are very

electricity
closely related.

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 48. An electric current creates a
magnetic field, and a magnetic field electric current
creates an _________ .

49. If you wrap wire around a

nail and run electricity
through the wire, you have
electromagnet
created an:
Electromagnets are useful because
they can be turned on an off.

50. If you rub your feet on the

carpet, or rub a balloon on a
static electricity
wool sweater, you may
create:

51. Static electricity occurs when

negatively charged _____ are
electrons
rubbed off of one surface and on to
another.

52. Benjamin Franklin learned

that lightning was a form of
static electricity
electricity. What kind of
electricity?

53. Who invented the light bulb? Thomas Edison

54. Which plant part takes in water and

the root
nutrients?

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55. Which part supports the plant and
allows the movement of water and the stem
nutrients?

56. Which plant part makes food for

the leaves
the plant?

57. The seed forms in the female

reproductive part of the flower pistil
called the:

58. Pollen forms on the ends of the

male reproductive parts of the stamen
flower called the:

59. The small leaves that form around

sepals
the developing flower are the:

60. Pollen is transferred from the

stamen to the pistil in a process pollination
called:

61. Most plants reproduce with seeds,

but ferns and mosses reproduce spores
with:

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 62. Green plants produce their own
photosynthesis
food in a process called:

water, nutrients, sunlight, carbon

63. To produce food, green plants use:
dioxide (from the air) and chlorophyll.

64. Plants are green because of: chlorophyll

65. Many plants enter a period of

______ in the winter, which is
similar to hibernation for animals. dormancy
During this period most of their
normal activities stop.

66. An organism's _____ provides

habitat
food, water, shelter and space.

67. All of the organisms in a forest

make up a _______, and all of the forest community;
organisms in a pond make up a pond community
pond _______.

68. All energy comes from _____ , and

then cycles through the food webs
the sun
to all of the animals in the
community.

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69. _______ get energy directly from
Plants
the sun and use it to make food.

70. Because plants produce their own

producers
food, they are called ___________ .

71. Other organism do not get their

eating plants, or eating animals that
energy from the sun. They get their
have eaten plants.
energy by:

72. Organisms that get their energy

from eating plants or other animals consumers
are called:

73. The sun's energy cycles through sun->producers-

the ecosystem in this order: >consumers>decomposers

74. All of the

interrelated
food chains
in an food web
ecosystem
make up a:

75. Food chains and food webs always

plant
start with a:

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 76. The food chain starts with a
decomposer
producer (a plant) and ends with a:

77. Decomposers like ______ break

down organisms and recycle them fungi
back to the nutrient pool.

78. All of the living and nonliving things

an ecosystem
in an environment make up:

79. Everything in an ecosystem

depends on everything else. polluting ponds, chopping down
Humans often destroy ecosystems forests, etc.
by:

80. The specific place an organism has

niche
in the food web is the organism's:

81. The niche of every organism is

different, and an organism's niche
what it does, what it eats, and what
changes as it grows. A niche is the
eats it.
organism's role in the community,
and includes:

82. All organisms have _________ that

allow it to survive in its adaptations
environment.

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 83. Structural adaptations are
__________ that help an organism
body parts
survive, like long beaks, webbed
feet, camouflage.

84. Behavioral adaptations are things

that organisms do to
migration, hibernation, instincts, etc
survive. Examples of behavioral
adaptations are:

85. The measure of the amount of heat

temperature
energy in the atmosphere is:

86. The amount of moisture in the air

humidity
is:

87. The weight of the air causes: air pressure

88. Air circulates around the Earth in

air masses
big chunks called:

89. The boundary between two air

front
masses is called a:

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90. A warm front occurs when a warm
steady rain or drizzle followed by
air mass pushes out a cold mass. A
warmer temperatures.
warm front usually brings:

91. A cold front occurs when a cold air a short period of heavy rain or
mass pushes out a warm air thunder, followed by clear colder
mass. A cold front usually brings: weather.

92. A falling barometer often means: rainy weather ahead.

93. What kind of cloud brings

stormy weather,
Cumulonimbus
thunderstorms, and
sometimes even tornadoes?

94. Puffy white clouds

that look like cotton cumulus clouds
balls are:

95. High, thin, wispy

clouds are:
cirrus clouds

96. Which cloud

forms a gray
blanket over the
stratus cloud
sky, often bringing
steady rain or
drizzle?

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 97. This instrument measures air
barometer
pressure:

98. This instrument measures wind

anemometer
speed:

99. This instrument measures

rain gauge
precipitation:

100. These severe storms usually

hurricanes
form over water in the Caribbean:

101. Earth is one of ____ planets that

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revolve around the sun.

102. Earth is the ______ planet from

third
the sun.

103. Venus, Mercury, Earth and Mars

rocky inner planets
are the :

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 104. The gas giants are: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune

105. The smallest planet is: Mercury

106. The largest planet is: Jupiter

107. The planets listed from closest Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter,
to farthest from the sun: Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

108. Because of its small size and

irregular orbit, Pluto is now dwarf planet
considered a:

109. Earth revolves around the sun

365 days (one year)
in:

110. The moon revolves around the

one month
Earth in approximately:

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 the tilt of the Earth as it revolves
111. Seasons are caused by:
around the sun

gibbous
112. This is a ______ moon.

crescent
113. This is a ______
moon.

114. The moon cant be seen when it

passes between the Earth and the sun
a new moon
because the illuminated side faces away
from Earth. This phase is called:

115. How far is the Earth from the

150 million km
sun?

116. What does the Earth have that

water and an oxygen rich atmosphere
allows it to support life?

117. How does the Earth's It blocks out most of the sun's
atmosphere protect the Earth? damaging rays.

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 118. Ancient Greeks like Aristotle
and Ptolemy believed _________
was the center of our solar system, the Earth
and the planets and the sun
revolved around us.

119. Copernicus and Galileo tried to

convince the world that
________ was actually the center of
the sun
the solar system, and all of the
planets revolve around it, and not
around the Earth.

120. NASA Apollo missions sent

the moon
astronauts to the ______ .

121. About half of Virginia is

considered to be in the Chesapeake
Bay ________ because the surface
watershed
water and all of the materials it
carries drain into the Chesapeake
Bay.

122. Land drained by rivers west of

Roanoke is part of the Mississippi / watershed
Gulf of Mexico _________.

123. Much of Virginia is covered in

______, an important natural forests
resource for Virginia.

124. An important energy resource

mined in the southwestern part of coal
Virginia is ________ .

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 5th Grade Standards

125. Sound is a form of energy

vibrating matter
produced by:

126. Sound travels in: waves

127. The ______

of a sound is the
number of frequency
vibration in a
given time.

128. An object vibrating faster will

have a higher frequency and a pitch
higher:

129. Sound is a
______ wave. compression

130. The distance between

compressions, or between the
peaks of two waves is the:
wavelength

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131. What kind of matter does sound
solids
travel through fastest?

132. Sound travels slower through

gases than through liquids and
farthest apart
solids because the molecules in
gases are:

133. Dogs, bats and other animals

can hear ________ sounds that
high frequency
humans cannot hear. Whales can
hear lower frequency sounds.

134. Musical instruments _____ to

vibrate
produce sounds.

135. An instrument
that uses sound
echoes to measure sonar
see the ocean floor
or underwater objects is a:

136. _______ is a combination of

several different wavelengths of white light
light traveling together.

137. The wavelengths of light from

red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet.
longest to shortest:

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138. The color light with the longest
red
wavelength is:

139. The color light with the shortest

violet
wavelength is:

140. Light travels much _____ than

faster
sound through the atmosphere.

141. It takes light from the sun

_______ to travel 150 million km to 81/2 minutes
Earth.

142. Light travels in straight paths

rays
called:

143. Light travels fastest through: a vacuum or empty space

144. When light

bounces off an reflected
object, it is:

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 145. When light bends, it is:

refracted

146. When light passes through an

transmitted
object, it is:

147. Light passes easily through a

transparent
window because the glass is:

148. Some light can pass through

translucent
wax paper. Wax paper is:

149. Light can't travel through a wall.

opaque
A wall is:

150. When white light

passes through a
________ , the
different wavelengths prism
bend at different
angles, so we see a rainbow of
colors.

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 151. There are over 100 pure
elements
substances, called:

152.
153. The smallest part of
an element is an: atom

154. When two of more elements

combine to make a completely new compound
substance, it is called a:

155. The smallest part of compound

molecule
is a:

156. H2O is a compound known as: water

157. NaCl (Sodium Chloride) is a

salt
compound called:

158. Substances that combined but

mixtures
can be separated again are called:

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 159. A mixture in which one
substance dissolves in another is solution
called a:

160. Sugar mixed into water is

a_______ because if the water
solution (a type of mixture)
evaporated, the sugar would remain
in the container.

161. The three states of matter are: solid, liquid, and gas

162. If you heat a solid, it may: melt into a liquid

163. If you heat a liquid, it may: evaporate into a gas

164. If you cool a liquid, it may

freeze
______ into a solid.

165. When you heat matter, the

move faster and usually spread apart
atoms and molecules:

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 166. In a solid, the
molecules are:
tightly packed and barely moving

167. In a gas the molecules

are: moving fast and spread apart

168. Living things are made of: cells

169. Using a ______ you can see

microscope
many parts of a cell.

170. Plant cells tend to be: rectangular

171. The control center of the cell is

nucleus
the:

172. The jellylike substance in a cell

cytoplasm
is the:

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 173. The water and waste storage
vacuoles
sacs in a cell are called:

174. The outer layer of an animal cell

cell membrane
is the:

175. Plant cell have cell membranes

but they have another stiff outer cell wall
layer called the:

176. Plants cell also have _____

which hold chlorophyll needed for chloroplasts
photosynthesis.

177. Are most plants vascular or

vascular
nonvascular?

178. Plants that do not have special

veins to transport food and water nonvascular
are:

179. Name a nonvascular plant. moss

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 180. Animals with backbones are: vertebrates

181. Animals without backbones are: invertebrates

182. Snakes, lizards and fish are: vertebrates

183. Clams, squid, worms and

invertebrates
insects are:

184. The ocean covers how much of

70%
the Earth?

185. The shallow parts of the ocean

floor at the edges of the continents continental shelf
make up the:

186. The salinity of the ocean varies.

saltiness
Salinity means:

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 187. Wind patterns and different
ocean currents
water densities cause:

188. As the depth of the ocean

water pressure
increases, what else increases?

189. As the depth of the ocean

temperature and the amount of light
increases, what decreases?

190. An ocean current which carries

warm water from the equator to The Gulf Stream
Europe is:

191. The greatest variety of ocean

life is in the shallowest part of the continental shelf
ocean, above the:

192. These tiny plant-like organisms

produce much of the Earth's
Phytoplankton
oxygen and serve as the basis of
the ocean ecosystem

193. Phytoplankton, like other plants,

need sunlight for photosynthesis, On the ocean's surface
and therefore live :

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194. The deepest parts of the ocean
trenches
are:

195. It is mostly the pull of the

tides
moon's gravity that causes:

196. Underwater mountains caused

mid-ocean ridges
by plate movements are:

sedimentary, metamorphic, and

197. Three types of rock are:
igneous

198. Over a period of time, layers of

sediment are pressed together to Sedimentary
form these types of rocks.

199. When molten rock or magma

cools below the Earth's surface or
Igneous rock
cools after erupting from a volcano
as lava, this type of rock is formed.

200. Rocks formed from other types

of rocks by intense heat and
Metamorphic rocks
pressure deep within the Earth are
called:

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 201. Sedimentary rocks often
contain these remains of organisms
fossils
which tell us a lot about life and
Earth in the past.

202. Scientific evidence indicates the

4.6 billion years old
Earth is how old?

203. The Earth's surface is constantly

changing due to heat and pressure
within the Earth and weathering and
erosion at the surface. These The Rock Cycle
processes constantly change rock
from one type to another in a cycle
called:

204. The two layers of the Earth that

are composed mostly of rocky The crust and mantle
material are:

205. The layers composed mostly of

Inner and outer core
iron and nickel

206. Heat energy causes movement

of material within the Earth. Large,
continent-sized blocks that move plates
slowly about the Earth's surface
due to this heat energy are called:

207. Most earthquakes and

volcanoes are located at the faults
boundary of the plates, called:

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208. Mountain ranges, including the
Appalachian mountains, mid-ocean Plate movements
ridges and trenches are caused by:

209. Rocks on the Earth's surface are

constantly being broken down by
chemical processes, weather, glaciers weathering
and even tree roots. Rocks are broken
into smaller pieces in a process called:

210. Weather rock material, sand and

soil can be moved by water and erosion
wind in a process called:

211. Roots hold soil in place. How

planting trees and other vegetation
can soil erosion be prevented?

212. Mountains are usually caused

plate movements
by:

213. Mountains and volcanoes

usually form on the _____ between
two plates, when the plates push boundaries
together or split apart. (convergent
and divergent boundaries)

214. Plates that slide against each

other are called sliding boundaries - earthquakes.
They cause:

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