5th Grade Science
This layer of Earth is made mostly of rock and is below the crust.
What is the mantle?
The star at the center of our solar system.
What is the Sun?
The instrument you use to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
The season when leaves usually change color and fall off trees.
What is autumn (fall)?
These tiny creatures spin webs and are often included in Halloween decorations.
What are spiders?
The push or pull that can change how fast an object moves.
What is force?
The path one object takes around another because of gravity (like Earth around the Sun).
What is an orbit?
The name for animals that eat only plants.
What are herbivores?
A popular fall flavor used in pies, lattes, and cookies
What is pumpkin?
These flying mammals come out at night and are often linked to Halloween decorations.
What is a bat?
A group of organisms of the same kind living in the same place at the same time.
What is a population?
The phase of the Moon when we see the whole lit side.
What is a full moon?
Two or more atoms chemically combined make this.
What is a molecule?
Many birds do this to find warmer places and food in winter.
What is migrate (migration)?
On Halloween, people dress up in these to pretend to be someone or something else.
What are costumes?
The process where water vapor cools and becomes liquid water (like clouds or dew).
What is condensation?
The force that pulls objects toward each other and keeps the planets moving around the Sun.
What is gravity?
The three states of matter we see every day.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
This special day in fall happens when the Sun shines equally on the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, making day and night almost the same length.
What is the autumnal equinox?
People often decorate their homes with these glowing faces made from carved pumpkins on Halloween.
What are jack-o’-lanterns?
Daily Double! This is the way scientists are able to tell molecules apart.
What are properties?
This imaginary line runs through Earth’s center and is what the planet spins on.
What is Earth’s axis?
The process plants use sunlight to make food and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
During fall, some animals collect and store food to help them survive the cold winter months.
What is hibernation preparation (or storing food for winter)?
The activity of going door-to-door on Halloween, asking for candy, comes from this old phrase.
What is “trick-or-treat”?