5th Grade Science 1
The steps that scientist take to answer a testable question.
The Scientific Method
the push or pull of objects
What is force?
Give an example of balanced forced acting on an object.
Anything that is sitting still and not moving.
using your five senses.
What are the 8 planets in order?
What is Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
What is a possible answer to a scientific question? Written in an If/Then statement.
Hypothesis
This is the fifth planet from the sun?
What is Jupiter?
Light travels
What is a straight line?
Plants that make their own food.
What are Producers?
What causes motion?
Unbalanced forces
Give two differences between the inner and outer planets.
solid/gas, small/big, closer/further
This is the process called when leaves on trees use sunlight for energy?
What is Photosynthesis?
When one organism benefits and the other organism is neither harmed nor benefited.
Commensalism
Consumers
The sun rises in this direction
What is the east?
the earth revolves around this object
What is the Sun?
Can sound travel through space? Why or Why not?
No, sound needs a medium to travel through (vibrate).
the Earth revolve around the Sun for this long
What is 365 Days?
Carnivores eat this
What is meat?
the bending of light
What is refraction?
Give an example of a predator and prey relationship.
Fox and a rabbit.
The formula for SPEED
Speed = Distance / Time
Name two decomposers.
Bacteria, fungi
When light reflects, does it bend or bounce?
bounce!
T or F - Planets closer to the sun orbit faster than planets farther away.
True
What is the sun?
What is a star?
Why do the moon and stars appear to change position?
Earth's rotation
Why is Pluto called a "dwarf planet"?
Pluto does not have a clear orbital path.
The variable that CHANGES AS A RESULT in an experiment
What is dependent variable
An object at rest with stay at rest, an object in motion will stay in motion unless an outside force acts upon it.
Inertia
a path that one object takes around another object
What is revolution?
Scientists perform investigations and experiments because they have many of these.
QUESTIONS!
True or False - Pluto IS a planet because it can no longer clear its orbit.
false
What happens when light hits water?
It slows down and refracts.
Worms, maggots, and bacteria are known as this
What are decomposers?
What are the three types of symbiotic relationships?
Mutualism, Commensalism and Parasitism
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
Food webs consist of many food chains. Both show the energy flow within an ecosystem.
The force that opposes motion.
Friction
What does the Solar System consist of?
The Sun and everything that revolves around it (Sun, planets, asteroids, comets).
________ light can be separated into a rainbow of colors.
White light
Primary consumers are always _________.
Herbivores
Uses suns energy to make its own food.
What is a producer?
What breaks down dead organic matter in an ecosystem?
decomposers
The more mass an object has, the more force is needed to move it. T or F?
T
What does an omnivore eat?
plants and meat