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.
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?
Organisms that eat other organisms.
Consumers.
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?
The moon's gravity is weaker than Earth's. It is ______ the gravity of Earth.
What is 1/6?
One afternoon Jerry looks out the window and observes falling precipitation. The temperature is 23°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
The moon affects tides by creating ________ in the ocean through its gravitational pull on Earth.
What is bulges?
A physical or behavioral trait that helps an animal survive in its environment.
Adaptation
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
When the Earth blocks the sunlight from reaching the moon.
What is lunar eclipse?
Is the practice of using natural resources responsibility.
What is substainability?
What is one thing that non-living things don't give us?
a. food b. air c. water d. sunlight
a. Food
A golf course is built near a river, and now the river is full of algae! Most likely, the culprit is humans using this item on the grass.
__________ 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
The part of a plant's leaf through which it "breathes."
Stomata
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
Forces can slow down, speed up, or change the direction of an object is Newton's ____ law.
What is 2nd? (acceleration)
True or False: At the same time of day, shadows are shorter in the Winter than in the summer.
False.
A molecule is made up of more than one different type of ______.
Atom
Which of the following is a biotic resource of an ecosystem? (a) Sun (b) Water (c) algae (d) Rock
c. algae
A phase of the moon that appears to get smaller each night.
What is waning?
This is the reaction of when a teacher rips up the notes of a student when they talk during MCAS.
A physical reaction.