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6th Grade Science
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| The Sun | Water evaporates and falls back to Earth as rain or snow. What is the primary energy source that drives this cycle? |
| Bacteria | Which living things in the pond system break down dead plants and animals? |
| Vines, palm trees, tree frogs, monkeys | Which group of organisms would all be found living in a tropical rain forest? |
| Consumers | Herbivores and carnivores have in common that they both are ___. |
| Habitat | The environment in which an organism lives is called a ___. |
| Grassland | This biome has some of the most rich and fertile soil in the world. |
| Parasites | An organism that survives by living on or in another animal and feeding on that animal is called a(n) ___. |
| Organism | Any living thing is an ___. |
| Living factors | Biotic factors are ___. |
| Female | Which pare of the flower is the pistil? |
| Stamen | Which of the following is the male flower part? |
| Flowering | What does the length of night or dark periods control in flowering plants? |
| Carbon Dioxide | What gas do plants take in from the air for photosynthesis? |
| Carbon Dioxide and Water | In most plants and animals, cellular respiration produces ___. |
| Transpiration | The loss of water through stomata is called ___. |
| Dormancy | While animals undergo hibernation during the winter, plants undergo ___. |
| Stems and Gravity | What is an example of a plant and a stimulus that displays negative tropism? |
| Tree roots growing toward water | What is an example of a plant and a stimulus that displays positive tropism? |
| Respiration | What plant process produces water, carbon dioxide, and energy? |
| Glucose and Oxygen | What are the products of photosynthesis? |
| Metal | Which material is the best conductor of electricity? |
| Electromagnetic Waves | Energy is transferred from the sun to Earth mainly by ___. |
| Convection | The main method of heat transfer occurring within water is called ___. |
| Refraction | The change in direction of a wave when it enters a new medium is called ___. |
| Mechanical Energy | What kind of energy does a moving baseball have? |
| Electrical Energy | What kind of energy is produced by generators at a dam? |
| Wood, water, or glass | Which kinds of materials are best insulators of electricity? |
| Solar energy | What is the primary source of energy on Earth? |
| Friction | A car skids along the road and smoke appears to be coming from under the car tires. The heat that produces the smoke is cause by ___. |
| Heat Energy | What form of energy causes an ice cube to melt? |
| Liquid to gas | A pot of boiling water on the stove demonstrates what change of state? |
| Amplitude | A person produces two sound waves, one is louder than the other. Which property is demonstrated? |
| Because it absorbs green light | Why does a leaf of a plant look green? |
| Vibrations | What do playing a guitar, banging a drum, and dropping a pebble in the water produce? |
| Wavelength | What is the distance between two consecutive points in phase on a wave called? |
| Rarefractions | Regions in a sound wave where particles are farthest apart are called ___. |
| Dimmer lights | What would cause your pupils to change from small to large? |
| Refraction | Light is bent as it passes from the air into the lens of eyeglasses. This bending is called ___. |
| Colors | Different wavelengths of light are seen as different ___. |
| Solid | In which phase would sound waves move the fastest? |
| Vibrations | The human ear receives sound waves as ___ and converts them into signals that are processed by the brain. |
| Cochlea | What part of the ear is damaged when a part of the ear stops sending messages to the brain? |
| Sound waves | What is produced when a rubber band is stretched across a box and let go? |
| Frequency | A tone that is lower in pitch is lower in what other characteristic? |
| Wavelength | How are waves classified on the electromagnetic spectrum? |
| Solid | What substance has a definite shape and definite volume? |
| Mass and Volume | Density depends on ___. |
| Physical | Mass is a ___ property. |
| Boiling | The temperature at which a liquid becomes a gas is the ___ point. |
| Compounds | All atoms of the same ___ have the same properties. |
| Gas | In what phase of matter are the molecules of a substance farthest apart from each other? |
| Liquids | Substances that have a definite volume but can take on many different shapes are known as ___. |
| Atoms | The building blocks of matter. |
| Space and Mass | Matter takes up ___. |
| Mass | What property changes if the size of an object changes? |
| Weathering | The breaking down of substances, physically or chemically, on Earth's surface. |
| Erosion | The moving of sediment and substances on Earth's surface. |
| Crust | What layer of Earth is divided into plates? |
| Mantle | The thickest layer of the Earth |
| Inner Core | A solid ball of nickel and iron at Earth's center. |
| Outer Core | The liquid layer of Earth |
| Igneous | Rocks made from the cooling of lava or magma |
| Sedimentary | Rocks made from the compression and cementation of tiny particles of rock. |
| Metamorphic | Rocks made from intense heat and pressure. |
| Mechanical weathering | Ice breaking open cracks in the sidewalk is an example of ___. |
| Chemical weathering | The rusting of metal is an example of ___. |
| Magma | The molten rock that is below Earth's surface. |
| Lava | Molten rock that has reached Earth's surface. |
| Fault | An earthquake is related to a crack in the crust. |
| Focus | The point beneath Earth's surface where rock breaks under stress and triggers an earthquake is called the ___. |
| P Waves | The type of seismic waves that arrive at the surface first and move by compressing and expanding the ground like an accordion is called ___. |
| Wind | During a severe drought, what can cause the most erosion on a farm? |
| Worms | What can help fix a soil creating good-quality soil? |
| O Horizon | What layer of soil usually contains humus? |
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