LIFE SCIENCE
Earth & Space
Physical Science
Grade 5
Science
Physical Science
100

The particular way that a living thing grows, reproduces, and dies

Life cycle

100

One of the four natural divisions of the year: spring, summer, fall, and winter

Season

100

A push or a pull that causes an object to move, stop, or change direction

Force

100

What is the hottest planet in our solar system?

Venus

100

Able to be attracted by a magnet

Magnetic


200

When one or more organisms bring new organisms of the same type into existence

Reproduction

200

The average or general weather for a location over a very long period of time

Climate

200

How an object moves from one place to another

Motion

200

What is the strongest bone in the human body?

The thigh bone.

200

How one thing is linked to another

Relationship

300

Increase in size, abundance, or complexity

Growth

300

A statement about what you think will happen based on what you know

Prediction

300

Rate of motion

Speed

300

What is in your stomach that helps continue the digestion of your food? 

Stomach Acid

Saliva


Stomach Acid

300

Describes change in an object’s position with respect to time and in comparison to other objects

Energy Transfer

400

A living thing

Organism

400

The difference between the largest and smallest value in a set of values

Range

400

Which is hotter a bolt of lightning or the sun? 

A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the sun.

400

If you are going to be running a long race, and need lots of energy, which of the following foods would provide the best source of long lasting energy?

Pasta 

Skittles

Apples

 

Pasta

400

That which is needed to do work

Energy

500

Survival; continued living

Existence

500

The current conditions of the atmosphere

Weather

500

About how many thunderstorms are there on earth every minute? 2,000, 200, 20,000

2,000

500

How long can cockroaches live without their heads? 

A week

500

Type of lizard that changes colors to look like the things around it.

chameleon

600

Protecting against harm

Defense

600

Value or goodness of something

Merit

600

Net force is not zero

Unbalanced force

600

What does the Earth rotate around?

the sun 

600

The flow of electrical energy through a circuit

Electric currents

700

A number of individuals assembled together or having some unifying relationship

Group

700

Describe the effects of a hurricane as it strikes land.



Heavy rains from hurricanes can cause flooding, high winds can uproot trees, and the waves can bring saltwater onto land, killing plants.

700

A scientist who studies rocks is called a what?

geologist 

700

The process that pulls up liquids into the air.

Evaporation

700

What animal has blue blood and 9 brains?

Octopus