5th Grade Physical Science
What is the smallest unit of matter?
What is atoms.
The role of the esophagus is to do this.
What is carry food from the mouth to the stomach.
This location on Earth receives the most direct sunlight.
What is the equator.
Describe a parallel circuit.
What is electricity flows along more than one pathway.
This process is most responsible for the formation of the Grand Canyon.
What is erosion by wind and water.
This material will allow electricity to flow between a battery and a light bulb.
What is copper wire.
Oxygen-rich blood goes here after leaving the lungs.
What is the heart.
This process is responsible for changing liquid water into water vapor.
What is evaporation.
Electrical energy is converted to this when electric current flows through the metal filament of a light bulb.
What is heat and light energy.
This is a characteristic that all reptiles and amphibians share.
What is they are cold-blooded.
This is a property of CO2.
What is it is colorless/odorless.
Plants use this gas in photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide (CO2).
Most of Earth's water is located here.
What is the ocean.
A circuit has a light bulb and some copper wire. What is missing?
What is a source/battery.
Shale is a sedimentary rock that can be metamorphosed into slate by this.
What is heat and pressure.
What is the chemical name for salt?
What is sodium chloride.
This is broken down in the body to release energy.
What is sugar.
Gravity is responsible for this in our Solar System.
What is orbits of the planets around the Sun.
In a ceiling fan, electrical energy is converted into this.
What is mechanical energy.
Since organisms can be preserved in sedimentary rock, these are often found inside when broken.
What is fossils?
The atomic number tells us this.
What is how many protons are in the element.
This is produced when sugar is digested in an animal cell.
What is ATP, CO2, and water.
Above a continent, a warm air mass slowly passes over a cold air mass. As the warm air begins to cool, clouds form. What will most likely happen next?
What is rain will fall.
These break down dead organisms and recycle nutrients into the soil.
Decomposers.
Salt concentration, water temperature, plankton, and the whale shark might all be used in a description of an ocean . . .
What is an ecosystem.