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Science Voc Game

Question	Answer
Used by green plants	Requires sunlight and water	Helps create food	Occurs in leaves	Produces oxygen	photosynthesis
Part of plant survival	Found underground	Takes in water and nutrients	Anchors the plant	Not used for reproduction	roots
Supports the plant	Moves water and nutrients	Connects roots to leaves	Stands upright	Not used for photosynthesis	stem
Main site of food making	Contains chlorophyll	Flat and green	Needs sunlight	Part used in photosynthesis	leaf
Plant structure	Helps create offspring	Often colorful	Attracts pollinators	Used in reproduction	flower
Behavior or trait	Helps an organism survive	Can involve body parts	Can involve actions	Explains how organisms live in environments	adaptation
Includes all living and nonliving things	Contains populations	Organisms interact here	Includes food webs	A community plus environment	ecosystem
One type of organism	Lives in same place and time	Competes for resources	Forms groups	Smaller than a community	population
Shows feeding relationships	Connects multiple food chains	Arrows show energy flow	More complex than a chain	Found in ecosystems	food web
An organism’s role	Includes what it eats	Includes where it lives	Two organisms can’t share the same one	Changes during life cycle	niche
Where an organism lives	Provides food and shelter	Provides water and space	Different sizes for different animals	Can change due to environment	habitat
Consumes producers	Cannot make its own food	May be herbivore or carnivore	Part of food web	Gets energy from others	consumer
Day-to-day conditions	Includes temperature and wind	Measured with instruments	Helps predict storms	Not the same as climate	weather
Long-term patterns	Measured over 30 years	Includes temperature and precipitation	Different around the world	A region's average weather	climate
White and fluffy	Flat bottoms	Usually fair weather clouds	Can grow into storms	Can become cumulonimbus	cumulus
Smooth gray clouds	Cover entire sky	Block sunlight	Bring drizzle or light rain	Low-altitude	stratus
Thin and feathery	High in sky	Made of ice crystals	Mean fair weather now	Often signal upcoming storms	cirrus
Strong rotating winds	Forms from thunderstorms	Can destroy habitats	Fast and dangerous	Called a funnel cloud	tornado
Over warm ocean water	Rotating storm system	High winds and rain	Can flood coasts	Needs warm tropical water	hurricane
Measures air pressure	Predicts weather changes	Falling readings mean storms	Rising means clear skies	A common weather instrument	barometer
Spins on its axis	Gives us day and night	Takes 24 hours	One movement of Earth	Different from revolution	rotation
Travels around the sun	Takes one year	Causes seasons with tilt	Part of Earth’s motion	Orbiting pathway	revolution
Third planet from sun	Has liquid water	Supports life	Has atmosphere and seasons	Our home planet	Earth
Large ball of gas	Center of solar system	Provides light and heat	Average-sized yellow star	110× Earth’s diameter	sun
Earth’s natural satellite	Rocky surface	No atmosphere	Has phases	Affects tides	moon
Terrestrial planet	Red surface	Thin atmosphere	Has canyons and dry riverbeds	Called the “Red Planet”	Mars
Gas giant	Largest planet	Has huge storms	Eleven times Earth’s size	Known for Great Red Spot	Jupiter
Very deep valley	Found on ocean floor	Below continental slope	One of deepest features	Forms where crust sinks	ocean trench
Shallow part of ocean	Closest to land	Rich in life	Extends from shoreline	Before the slope	continental shelf
Mixture of water and salts	Contains dissolved gases	Supports marine life	Has varying salinity	Covers most of Earth	ocean water
Caused by wind patterns	Move warm and cold water	Affect climate	Can impact navigation	Includes Gulf Stream	ocean currents
Tiny drifting organisms	Float near surface	Producers of ocean	Food source for many animals	Can be algae or animals	plankton
Natural area draining water	Water flows to one place	Impacts water quality	Chesapeake Bay is one	“We all live downstream”	watershed
Nonliving substance	Found in Earth’s crust	Used for building and tools	Can be mined	Includes rocks and ores	minerals
Layer covering Earth	Supports plant life	Made of organic and inorganic material	Affected by erosion	Important natural resource	soil
Resources from trees	Used for building materials	Provide habitats	Can be natural or cultivated	Found throughout Virginia	forests
Plants in environment	Provide oxygen	Prevent erosion	Part of natural resources	Provide food and shelter	vegetation
A group of words	Expresses a complete thought	Has a subject and predicate	Begins with a capital letter	Ends with punctuation	sentence
Shows strong feeling	Often short	Ends with an exclamation mark	Expresses excitement or emotion	One of the four sentence types	exclamatory sentence
Gives information	Ends with a period	States something	Most common sentence type	Not a command	declarative sentence
Gives an order	Often starts with a verb	Subject is understood “you”	Ends with period or exclamation	Tells someone what to do	imperative sentence
Asks a question	Needs an answer	Ends with a question mark	Often begins with who/what/why	One of four sentence forms	interrogative sentence
Made-up story	Includes characters, setting, plot	Written to entertain	Can be realistic or fantasy	Found in fiction	narrative
Based on real facts	Provides true information	Often includes text features	Read to learn	Opposite of fiction	nonfiction
Part of a text	Gives the topic	Appears at top or page start	May be bold or larger font	Helps identify the section	heading
Short explanation	Found under pictures or diagrams	Adds information	Helps clarify meaning	Often in smaller print	caption
Helps locate information	Alphabetical	Found at back of a book	Includes page numbers	Lists key words	index
Explains meanings	In alphabetical order	Found at end of book	Defines bold or new words	Used to understand vocabulary	glossary
Shows data visually	Can be a chart	Can be a table	Organizes information	Helps compare facts	graphic organizer
Helps find main ideas	Shows relationships	May include arrows and boxes	Useful in nonfiction	Used for organizing content	diagram
Hint in the text	Helps define an unknown word	Includes synonyms and examples	Readers use it for meaning	Found around vocabulary words	context clue
Has characters	Has a setting	Has a problem and solution	Follows a plot structure	Written to entertain	fiction
True events	Gives real information	Uses text features	May teach or explain	Can include maps and photos	informational text
Hints at what will happen	Used by authors	Creates suspense	Readers look for clues	Appears before events occur	foreshadowing
Comparison using like or as	Makes writing vivid	A figurative language type	Used in poetry and stories	Example: “fast as lightning”	simile
Direct comparison	Does not use like or as	Makes writing stronger	A figurative language type	Example: “The classroom was a zoo”	metaphor
Life-like qualities for objects	Type of figurative language	Nonhuman things act human	Example: “The wind whispered”	Personification	personification
Lesson or message	Found in stories	Often not directly stated	What the author wants you to learn	Central idea about life	theme
Central point	What the text is mostly about	Supported by details	Often stated in topic sentence	Found in nonfiction or fiction	main idea
Small pieces of information	Support the main idea	Found in text	Can be facts or examples	Answer “What makes you say that?”	supporting details
Events in order	Helps understand what happens first				Next, then last
Where and when a story happens	Surroundings and time period	Affects characters	Explained in descriptions	Important to the plot	setting
Someone in the story	Drives the plot	Has traits and motivations	Can change over time	Interacts with others	character
Struggle in the story	Can be internal or external	Drives the plot	Characters try to solve it	Leads to solution	conflict
The turning point	Most exciting part	Highest tension	Where problem reaches peak	Before things wrap up	climax
Who is telling the story	Impacts what readers know	Can be first or third person	Involves narrator	Affects information given	point of view
Author’s reason for writing	Could be persuade, inform, entertain	Determines style and tone	Often identified through clues	PIE helps recall	author’s purpose
Word with an opposite	Shows contrast	Common vocabulary skill	Used to understand meaning	Example: hot–cold	antonym
Word with similar meaning	Used for clarification	Helps paraphrase	Found in context clues	Example: large–big	synonym
Beginning of a word	Changes meaning	Examples: pre-, un-, re-	Aids in vocabulary decoding	Attached to the start	prefix
Added to the end	Changes word meaning	Examples: -ful, -less, -er	Helps identify word function	Attached after the root	suffix
What a word is built around	Carries basic meaning	Combined with affixes	Also called base	Helps decode vocabulary	root word
Clue from surrounding words	Helps determine meaning	Used when encountering unknown terms	A reading strategy	Found in the sentence	context
Breaks down text structure	May compare, sequence, or explain cause-effect	Helps identify organization	Used in nonfiction	Shows how information is arranged	text structure
Shows differences	Contrasts two ideas	Often uses “however” or “unlike”	Part of nonfiction structure	Opposite is comparison	contrast
Shows similarities	Highlights alike traits	Often uses “both” or “similar”	Useful in nonfiction	Opposite of contrast	compare
Explains why something happens	Shows result	Uses because, since, therefore	Common nonfiction structure	Helps clarify relationships	cause and effect
A whole number greater than 1	Has exactly two factors	Only divisible by 1 and itself	Opposite of composite	Examples include 2, 3, 5	prime
A whole number greater than 1	Has more than two factors	Can be evenly divided in many ways	Opposite of prime	Examples include 4, 6, 8	composite
Shows what numbers divide evenly	Shortcut for checking factors	Includes rules for 2, 3, 5, 10	Helps with multi-digit numbers	Used in fifth-grade number sense	divisibility
Evenly split into equal groups	Repeated subtraction	Used in long division	Opposite of multiplication	Operation to share or partition	division
Putting equal groups together	Repeated addition	Fast way to count groups	Opposite of division	One of four operations	multiplication
A number with fractional parts	Has tenths, hundredths, thousandths	Includes decimal point	Used with money and measurement	Based on powers of ten	decimal
Compares two quantities	Uses symbols like <, >, =	Helps order numbers	Used with fractions and decimals	Determines size relationships	comparison
Number with numerator and denominator	Represents part of a whole	Can be proper or improper	Used in probability and division	Includes equivalent forms	fraction
Look the same in value	Different appearance	Represent same amount	Used in simplifying fractions	Can be shown with models	equivalent fractions
Top number of a fraction	Shows how many parts are taken	Can compare or add	Works with denominator	Part of a ratio	numerator
Bottom number of a fraction	Shows total equal parts	Must be nonzero	Defines size of each piece	Used to compare sizes	denominator
Cross-multiply or use common denominator	Used to order fractions	Compare by size	Helps decide greater or less	Important in fifth grade	comparing fractions
Uses digits 0–9	Each position has value	Increases by ×10 each place	Used with whole numbers and decimals	Includes ones, tens, hundreds	place value
Closer number	Used for estimation	May go up or down	Used to check reasonableness	Helps with mental math	rounding
Middle value	Put numbers in order	Used in data sets	Not affected by outliers	A measure of center	median
Most frequent value	Appears the most	Used with data sets	Shows common result	May have more than one	mode
Average value	Add all numbers	Divide by number of values	Sensitive to outliers	A measure of center	mean
Biggest minus smallest	Shows spread of data	Used in line plots	Measures variability	Range of values	range
Probability experiment	Each outcome is equally likely	Usually written as fraction	Can be simple or compound	Chance of one event happening	simple probability
Horizontal number line	Shows data above points	Used in measurement problems	Often includes fractions	Common in fifth-grade SOL	line plot
Four-sided figure	Opposite sides parallel	Opposite sides equal length	Two pairs of parallel lines	Includes rectangles and squares	parallelogram
Four equal sides	Opposite sides parallel	Right angles	Special type of parallelogram	Two sets of parallel lines	square
Opposite equal sides	All angles right	Includes length and width	A quadrilateral	Type of parallelogram	rectangle
Three-sided figure	Sum of angles = 180°	Can be acute, obtuse, or right	Used in area problems	Basic polygon	triangle
Distance around shape	Add all side lengths	Measured in units	Used with polygons	Not area	perimeter
Space inside shape	Measured in square units	Length × width for rectangles	Different formulas for different shapes	Represents coverage	area
Probability created using branches	Shows all possible outcomes	Used with compound events	Starts with one point	Expands like a diagram	tree diagram
Corner of a shape	Where two sides meet	Measured in degrees	Can be acute, obtuse, or right	Part of geometry	angle
Angle = 90°	Square corner	Common in polygons	Shown by a little box	Important in triangles	right angle
Angle < 90°	Sharp corner	Common in triangles	Smaller than a right angle	Opens less	acute angle
Angle > 90°	Larger than right angle	Opens wide	Found in geometry	Common in obtuse triangles	obtuse angle
Units used to measure	Inches, feet, yards, miles	Also centimeters and meters	Used in conversions	Part of measurement	length
Units of liquid	Cups, pints, quarts, gallons	Milliliters and liters	Used in capacity problems	Measures volume of liquids	capacity
Solid figure	Has length, width, height	Includes prisms and pyramids	Takes up space	Measured in cubic units	volume
Move a figure without changing size	Slide a shape	Keeps orientation	A rigid motion	Used in geometry	translation
Turn a figure around a point	Rotates shape	Angle of turn matters	Keeps size the same	A rigid transformation	rotation
Flip a figure	Creates mirror image	Reflects over a line	Keeps size but changes orientation	A rigid motion	reflection
Answer to a multiplication problem	Found by repeated addition	Result of equal groups	Opposite of quotient	product
Answer to a division problem	Shows number in each group	Found after dividing	Opposite of product	quotient
Answer to an addition problem	Found by combining numbers	Opposite of difference	Total amount	sum
Answer to a subtraction problem	Found by taking away	Opposite of sum	How much remains	difference

Created by: MrLittle5

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