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 is stored or at rest
What is potential energy?
Weather instrument that measures temperature.
Thermometer.
Repeated rise and fall in the level of the ocean.
What is tides?
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.
An ecosystem that permafrost, low vegetation, migration, and hibernation.
What is the tundra ecosystem?
Which liquid will be least dense if you add, oil, water, and syrup to a cup?
Oil
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?
True of False
The moon's gravity is weaker than earth's.
True
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
Major adverse events that result from the Earth's natural process.
What is Natural disaster?
Organisms that break down dead organic material.
Decomposers.
Where do producers get energy?
The Sun
True or False
The moon affects tides by gravitational pull on Earth.
True
Which part is missing from this order of Levels of Organization? Cells, Tissues, ________, Organ Systems, __________.
Organs- Organisms
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
Transpiration, Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation.
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
13 days after New moon you will most likely se which moon phase?
Full Moon
One way of using natural resources responsibility.
Recycling, not being wasteful, cover crops
Which of the following involves biotic factors?
a. food b. air c. water d. sunlight
a. Food
Substance needed to be spread by bees and to fertilize plants
What is pollen?
__________ is the average weather over a period of time.
a. abiotic b. climate c. biotic d. adaptation
b. Climate
What is responsible for things falling?
Gravity
What are the 5 steps needed to make a sedimentary rock
WEDCC
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
objects can slow down, speed up, or change the direction if a _____________acts on them
force
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 energy produced when bread gets turned into toast and eaten
chemical