5th Grade Science 1
means an energy source that has a continuous supply (solar power, wind power) we can make more in a short time
What is Renewable?
the fifth planet from the sun and the largest in our solar system
What is Jupiter?
Give an example of a biotic
any living organisms (plant, dog, etc.)
plants that make their own food
What are producers?
This is needed to form sedimentary rock
What are compaction and cementation?
means natural substance that is not replenished (oil, coal) takes millions of years to form
What is Non renewable?
Light rays bouncing off a smooth, shiny surface is called
what is Reflection
Four key natural resources of Virginia
What is a primary consumer
an animal that feeds on plants a herbivore
This planet is sometimes called the blue planet because of its atmosphere.
A material that allows heat or electrical energy to pass through it easily
What is a Conductor?
This is the process called when leaves on trees use sunlight for energy?
What is Photosynthesis?
The movement of sediments then settles in one area
What is Deposition?
A shark in a food chain is an example
What are consumers?
What is weather?
natural body that revolves in an orbit around a star
What is a planet?
Under heat and pressure, igneous rock may turn into____________________
What is metamorphic rock?
when a liquid changes to a gas it is called
What is Evaporation?
What tool would I use to find the mass of an object?
A balance scale or triple beam balance
The three types of movement of earth's plates
What are converging, diverging and transforming
This is an example of a nonrenewable fossil fuel mined in the western part of Virginia
What is coal?
365 days
What is the amount of time it takes for the Earth to revolve in orbit around the sun?
the layer of gasses that surround our planet
What is the atmosphere?
What causes day and night everyday
Earth rotating on its axis
The item that changes in an experiment
What is the Independent variable? For instance, the amount of water given to a plant when all other variables such as sunlight, dirt amount, etc remain the same.
giant mass of burning hydrogen and helium at middle of solar system
What is the sun/star?
28 days
What is the length of the lunar (moon) cycle?
When a gas(water vapor)changes to a liquid it is called
Condensation
What causes the four seasons (fall, winter, spring, and summer)
The till of the Earth as it orbits or revolves around the Sun.
The earth ______________ every 24 hours.
What is rotates?
The ability to do work. The ability to cause changes in matter. People get it when they eat food.
What is Energy
This is the reaction of when bread gets turned into toast, changing it into something different
What is a Chemical Reaction?
made from decomposing plants and animals over millions of years
What are Fossil fuels?
The breaking down of rock into smaller pieces.
What is weathering?
This is the thinnest layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
long term weather patterns
What is climate?
This is what an animal who breaks down dead things is called
What is a decomposer?
This is the first object in a food web.
What is a producer? (phytoplankton in the ocean, for example)
An object that does not allow light to pass through it is _______________
What is opaque?
These are also called compression waves
What are sound waves?
a path that one object takes around another object
What is an orbit?
This is the process of when rock or sediment is carried away by water or wind
What is Erosion?
A U-shape valley is made by?
The movement of a glacier over a valley, causing weathering and then erosion.
A stain glass window is _______________
What is translucent?
An herbivore eats these
What are plants?
What are the planets in order from the sun?
M V E M J S U N
An open circuit means the light will be __________
What is off?
All of the organisms of the same species that live in the same place at the same time
What is a population?
Is the sun a planet or star?
Star
what does an omnivore eat?
plants and meat