5th Grade Science
These are the 4 chambers of the heart.
What are the right atrium, the left atrium, the right ventricle, and the left ventricle?
This is thing in an experiment that the scientist changes on purpose (the cause).
What is the independent variable?
This is the term for substances, such as carbon dioxide and methane, that trap heat in our atmosphere.
What is a "greenhouse gas?"
This is the full name of DNA (spelling needs to be mostly right).
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
This is the only known natural predator of the great white shark.
What is the orca (killer whale)?
This is type of white blood cell that "sounds the alarm" and activates the other white blood cells (it is also the type that is destroyed by HIV).
What is the Helper T cells?
588m = ? km (1,000 meters in 1 km)
.588 km
This is the name of the group on the periodic table that contains elements with full outer shells that are inert (unreactive).
What is the Noble Gases?
What is crossing over?
This bird has eyes that are larger than its brain.
What is an ostrich?
These are the 5 characteristics of all living things.
What is respond, organization (cells/DNA), growth and development, use energy, and reproduce?
This is the term for a consumer who eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
These two subatomic particles make up the mass of an atom.
What are protons and neutrons?
Gray fur is dominant to white fur. A heterozygous mouse and a white mouse mate. What is the expected ratio of gray to white in the offspring?
1:1 (2:2)
This is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys on the QWERTY keyboard.
What is Alaska?
This substance coats the axons of nerve cells in order to speed up the transmission of nerve impulses.
What is myelin?
This is the term for when a substance changes directly from a solid to a gas (such as dry ice).
What is sublimation?
These are two differences between plant and animal cells (be specific).
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This term describes when one gene controls whether or not another gene is expressed (turned on).
What is epistasis?
This is the only U.S. State home to a real royal palace once used by a monarchy.
What is Hawaii?
These are 2 reactants and 2 products of cellular respiration.
Reactants - food (glucose) and oxygen
Products - ATP, water, and CO2
This is the chemical equation for photosynthesis (balanced or unbalanced).
(6)CO2 + (6)H20 --> C6H12O6 + (6)O2
This is a Bohr Model of a neutral Fluorine atom (Atomic number = 9, Atomic mass = 19).
P = 9
N = 10
E = 9
Two organisms that are both heterozygous for two traits are crossed (FfDd x FfDd). This is the probability the offspring will be homozygous recessive for at least one trait (one OR the other).
7/16
This planet's moons are nearly all named after Shakespearean characters.
What is Uranus?