5th Grade Science
Organisms that make their own food.
Producers.
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail
Precipitation.
The process of breaking down the food you eat into tiny, simple parts that your body needs for energy and growth.
What is digestion?
Push or pull on an object
Force.
This is what an herbivore eats.
Producers or plants.
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation and run-off are major parts of this global process.
The Water Cycle.
True or False
rocks, water, and dirt are biotic things
False
Energy that involves movement
Mechanical energy
Weather instrument that measures temperature.
Thermometer.
Types of weathering
wind, water, or ice
Which is a learned behavior in dogs?
a. digging b. barking
c. scratching d. giving a high five
d. Giving a High Five
Water droplets forming from water vapor.
Condensation.
Examples of rapid changes to the earth
Volcanic eruption, landslide, and earthquake
Organisms that eat other organisms.
Consumers.
This is resistance of motion.
Friction.
Day to day, hour by hour changes in the conditions in atmosphere (air around you).
Weather.
Natural resources that cannot be replaced once they are used and exist in a fixed amount.
What are non-renewable resources?
The amount of moisture in the air is called:
a.Barometric pressure
b.Wind
c.Temperature
d.Humidity
d.Humidity
Different shapes of the moon that are visible from Earth.
What is phases?
What is gravity?
Force that pulls all things towards Earth
One afternoon Jerry looks out the window and observes falling precipitation. The temperature is 34°F, and the wind speed is 5 miles per hour to the north. What type of precipitation does Jerry most likely see?
a. Hail b.Rain c. Sleet d. Snow
d. Snow
Types of consumers
herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores
Organisms that break down dead organic material.
Decomposers.
Where do producers get energy?
The Sun
What are the three Rs?
reduce, reuse, recycle
Metals are an example of a good thermal or electrical _______.
Conductor
Biotic things are:
a. Living b. Non- Living c. Natural things
d. Sand
a. Living
What organism in every ecosystem is needed by all others to survive?
Producers (in most cases, plants).
The correct stages of the water cycle
Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Accumulation, Runoff
A phase when the moon is between the Earth and the sun.
What is new Moon?
What is the source of all energy in an ecosystem
a. producers b. consumers
c. decomposers d. sun
d. Sun
Harmful chemicals, smoke, or trash that get into the air, water, or land making it unsafe for living organisms.
What is pollution?
A predator is an organism in any ecosystem that consumes ___________.
Prey.
Which best describes grasses, shrubs, and trees?
a. producers b. consumers
c. decomposers d. scavengers
a. Producers
Weather is ______
day-to-day, short-term
Is the practice of using resources responsibility.
Conservation
What is one thing that non-living things don't give us?
a. food b. air c. water d. sunlight
a. Food
What are the three states of matter?
solid, liquid, gas
__________ is the average weather over a period of time.
a. abiotic b. climate c. biotic d. adaptation
b. Climate
What is solubility?
A substance that dissolves in water
What is a mixture?
a combination of two or more
substances that maintain their physical
properties
This is what Earth spins on.
Its axis.
Everything that surrounds and affects an animal, living and non-living.
What is an environment?
Jonathan pulls his chair out to sit down. Is that an example of a balanced or unbalanced force?
Unbalanced
Types of energy?
CMELTS
How long does it take Earth to orbit around the sun?
1 Year or 365 days.
Trail mix is an example of this.
A mixture.
Which of the following is a biotic resource of an ecosystem? (a) Sun (b) Water (c) Tree (d) Rock
c. Tree
A phase of the moon that appears to get larger each night.
What is waxing?
This is the reaction of when bread gets turned into toast, changing it into a new substance
A Chemical Reaction.