Earth/Space
Organisms and Enviroment
Matter and Energy
Force and Motion
Vocabulary
100
Define deposition 

What is dropping sediment into a new location

100

What is abiotic and biotic 

What is abiotic is not living, biotic are living organisms
100

Describe thermal, sound, light, and mechanical energy.

What is example of each one..

100

Students have a soccer ball, a meter stick, and various surfaces such as grass, concrete, carpet, and tile. What can the students be testing?

What is friction?

100

Define producer, consumer, and decomposer

What is an organism that uses the sun's energy to make food, an organism that eats other organisms, an organism that breaks down the dead bodies of other organisms 

200

Describe weathering of a rock in the desert with high winds

What is chipping and breaking of rock 
200

Describe a lizard depending on another living part of the environment, AND how does that interaction help the lizard survive?

What is eating crickets and other insects.

200

Which two objects use electrical energy to move an object?

  • A- A fan and a pencil sharpener
  • B- A radio and a stove
  • C -A lamp and a television
  • D-A camera and a radio

What is A

200

The boy is scared to go down the slide by himself because he slides too quickly.

What changes can be made to the slide to slow down his speed?


What is adding a material to create friction

200

What is instinctual and learned behavior?

What is something an animal does naturally, and something an animal is taught or learns. 

300

What is the difference between Earth's rotation and Earth's revolution ?

What is the day/night cycle and the year passing by 
300

What observation demonstrates an organism interacting with only nonliving components of its environment?

What is organism drinking water, hiding in shelter, on a rock, etc

300

What is a battery called in a circuit

What is a power source

300

Two students were learning about forces in their science class. They designed an experiment to test the effect of forces using the game tug-of-war.

What was the effect of the force by the student who won the game on the student who did not win? Include the types of forces observed in this experiment.

What is a greater force of pull and motion

300

What is friction, gravity, and force?

What is a force that slows down an object when it rubs against eachother, a force that pulls an object down, and a push or pull on object

400
What are the steps of the Water Cycle?

What is evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.

400

Explain how the hummingbird's long, thin beak is best developed for its diet.

What is the long thin beaks helps it drink from a flower

400

What do wires do in a circuit?

What is transfer electrical energy 
400

Picking up a heavy box is much more difficult than putting it down. What is a likely explanation for this?

  • A- Pushing force is more difficult to accomplish than pulling force.
  • B- The force of gravity acts against you when you try to push something to the ground.
  • C -The action is less difficult because nothing is pulling the object toward the ground.
  • D -The force of gravity is pulling the box toward the ground which makes the action of putting the box down easier to do

What is D

400

What is percipitaton, condensation, and evaporation?

What is water than falls from the clouds, water in gas form becomes liquid form, and liquid water becomes gas form
500

What are the changes to landforms on Earth's surface?

What is deltas, sand dunes, U-shape and V-shape valleys, canyons

500

What inherited trait helps an organism survive by providing protection from predators?


What is example of inherit trait (ex: thorns, venom, color of fur)
500

Describe the difference between a open circuit and closed circuit

What is a closed circuit is a funcitoning circuit where the light bulb will turn on, an open circuit has a break in the circuit resulting in the light bulb turned off 

500

Two students designed an experiment to test the effects of force on an object. They stood on opposite sides of a large box and then they each applied a push to the box. The box moved to the right.

What can be said about the effect of the force being applied by the above student on the left?



What is the pushing force on the left was greater than the right.

500

What is the difference between climate and weather?

What is long term weather conditions year round, and short term weather conditions that vary from day to day.