5th Grade Science 1
The pulling force that keeps the planets orbiting the sun and humans on planet Earth
What is gravity?
What is translucent?
An imaginary line around which an object spins
What is an axis?
Light bouncing off an object, often times back to our eyes
What is reflection?
The back and forth motion of an object that produces sound
A statement of what you think will happen during an investigation.
What is Hypothesis?
This is the fifth planet from the sun?
What is Jupiter?
A frozen mass of different types of ice and dust orbiting the sun
organisms that make their own food from sunlight
What are Producers?
Smaller objects typically make higher or lower pitch sounds?
Higher
the ability to do work or cause change
What is Energy?
This is the process called when leaves on trees use sunlight for energy?
What is Photosynthesis?
The struggle among organisms for the same limited resources
What is competition?
Organisms that eat other organisms
What are consumers?
What are the planets in order from the sun?
M V E M J S U N P
the branch of science that studies space
What is Astronomy?
A series of steps shown with arrows that show energy moving from one type of living thing to another
What is a food web (or chain)?
How many days in a revolution around the Sun?
365 Days (365 1/4, technically) :)
True or false: Water gives us energy?
False
How long does it take for Earth to orbit the sun?
365 days
natural body that revolves in an orbit around a star
What is a planet?
What is the largest AND smallest planet in our solar system?
Mercury and Jupiter.
A group of stars that forms a pattern
What is a constellation?
Describes materials that do not let any light pass through them
Sound travels fastest through this type of matter and slowest through this type
What is solids and gases?
a change in position of an object
What is motion?
All non living things in an Ecosystem
What is abiotic factors
A push or pull that acts on an object
What is a force?
Bending of light, often when is passes from one material into another
What is refraction?
T or F
Planets closer to the sun orbit faster than planets farther away.
True
massive self-luminous body of gas
What is a star?
All living and non living things in an area and their inteactions?
Ecosystem
A natural object that revolves around a planet
What is a moon?
One whole spin of an object on its axis
What is rotation?
True or false: Energy is never destroyed, it is only transferred from one object to another
True
a path that one object takes around another object
What is An orbit?
A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other organism is harmed
What is Parasitism?
An animal that is hunted by others for food
What is Prey?
Describes materials that let all light pass through them
What does an herbivore eat?
plants
All Living things in an ecosystem
What is Biotic Factors?
This is what an animal who breaks down dead things is called
What is a decomposer?
Step-by-step instructions for completing a task.
What is a procedure?
How sound and light both travel
What is in waves?
What does a carnivore eat?
meat
A symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit
What is Mutualism?
Uses suns energy to make its own food.
What is a producer?
Organisms that break down dead material or waste for food
What are decomposers?
Is the sun a planet or star?
Star
what does an omnivore eat?
plants and meat