Question | Answer |
The capacity of a container is how much it can hold. The capacity our large Coke bottle, even if it is empty, is: | 2 liters |
The capacity of an eyedropper would be a few: | milliliters |
A milliliter of liquid is: | a few drops |
The volume of liquid in a graduated cylinder might be 50: | milliliters |
The volume of liquid in a beaker might be 300: | milliliters |
One thousand milliliters equals: | one liter |
A liter is close in volume to a: | quart |
An instrument used to measure mass is a: | balance |
The mass of a paperclip or a sheet of paper is about: | one gram |
The mass of a book could be about: | one kilogram |
1000 grams equal: | one kilogram |
Length and distance are measured in these metric units: | meters |
Volume of a liquid or capacity of a container is measured in these metric units: | liters |
Mass is measured in these metric units: | grams |
A centimeter is about as long as your: | fingernail |
If your fingernail is one centimeter long, how long is it in millimeters? | ten |
The distance from your waist to the floor could be about: | one meter |
One-hundred centimeters equals: | one meter |
One thousand meters equals: | one kilometer |
In an experiment to measure the how different types of soil affect tulip growth, you fill five identical pots with different types of soil and place a tulip bulb in each. The variable in the experiment is the: | soil |
The pots, tulip bulbs, water and amount of sunlight are should be the same for all of the pots. These are the: | constants |
Objects in motion have ______ energy. | kinetic |
Potential energy is ________ energy. | stored |
Due to the pull of gravity, the higher an object is off the ground, the more ____________ it has. | potential energy |
When I hold a ball in the air, it has potential energy. When I let go, the ball starts to fall. Potential energy changes to: | kinetic energy |
There are many forms of energy. Energy caused by the movement of electrons is: | energy |
Energy stored in food, batteries and fossil fuels like coal and gasoline is: | chemical energy |
Energy in moving or spinning objects like gears, car wheels, or joggers, is _______ energy: | mechanical |
Machines make work easier and help us work more: | efficiently |
A combination of two more simple machines is a: | compound machine |
Machines made of many compound machines are: | complex machines |
An object that is sharp, like a knife, ax, or nail, is a: | wedge |
Doorknobs, screwdrivers, and wheels of all sorts are: | wheel and axles |
A seesaw, crowbar, shovel, and nutcracker are: | levers |
A ramp, staircase, and ladder are: | inclined planes |
A jar lid and corkscrew are: | screws |
What simple machine is used to hoist a flag or raise window blinds? | pulley |
A wheelbarrow, scissors, and a bicycle are: | compound machines |
Simple machines with fulcrums (pivot points) are usually: | levers |
These simple machines have ropes or chains. | pulleys |
Two objects rubbing together create: | friction |
Friction resists or stops motion, and creates: | heat |
Unless acted on by a force, objects in motion tend to stay in motion and objects at rest remain at rest. This is the principal of: | inertia |
It's harder to push a real truck than a toy truck because objects with more mass have: | more inertia |
Which will light a bulb, an open or closed circuit? | closed circuit |
If your string of holiday lights goes dark when one little bulb burns out, the string of lights is a: | series circuit |
This circuit has more than one pathway for the flow of electrical current. If one bulb burns the others will remain lit. It is a: | Parallel circuit |
Electrical energy moves easily through materials that are: | conductors. |
Wires are usual made from ____ because it conducts electricity well. | metal |
Material like rubber, plastic and wood do not conduct electricity well. They are: | insulators |
Magnetism and _______ are very closely related. | electricity |
An electric current creates a magnetic field, and a magnetic field creates an _________ . | electric current |
If you wrap wire around a nail and run electricity through the wire, you have created an: | electromagnet |
If you rub your feet on the carpet, or rub a balloon on a wool sweater, you may create: | static electricity |
Static electricity occurs when negatively charged _____ are rubbed off of one surface and on to another. | electrons |
Benjamin Franklin learned that lightning was a form of electricity. What kind of electricity? | static electricity |
Who invented the light bulb? | Thomas Edison |
Which plant part takes in water and nutrients? | root |
Which part supports the plant and allows the movement of water and nutrients? | stem |
Which plant part makes food for the plant? | leaves |
The seed forms in the female reproductive part of the flower called the: | pistil |
Pollen forms on the ends of the male reproductive parts of the flower called the: | stamen |
The small leaves that form around the developing flower are the: | sepals |
Pollen is transferred from the stamen to the pistil in a process called: | pollination |
Most plants reproduce with seeds, but ferns and mosses reproduce with: | spores |
Green plants produce their own food in a process called: | photosynthesis |
Plants are green because of: | chlorophyll |
Many plants enter a period of ______ in the winter, which is similar to hibernation for animals. During this period most of their normal activities stop. | dormancy |
An organism's _____ provides food, water, shelter and space. | habitat |
All energy comes from _____ , and then cycles through the food webs to all of the animals in the community. | sun |
_______ get energy directly from the sun and use it to make food. | Plants |
Because plants produce their own food, they are called ___________ . | producers |
Organisms that get their energy from eating plants or other animals are called: | consumers |
All of the interrelated food chains in an ecosystem make up a: | food web |
Food chains and food webs always start with a: | plant |
The food chain starts with a producer (a plant) and ends with a: | decomposer |
Decomposers like ______ break down organisms and recycle them back to the nutrient pool. | fungi |
All of the living and nonliving things in an environment make up: | ecosystem |
The specific place an organism has in the food web is the organism's: | niche |
All organisms have _________ that allow it to survive in its environment. | adaptations |
Structural adaptations are __________ that help an organism survive, like long beaks, webbed feet, camouflage. | body parts |
The measure of the amount of heat energy in the atmosphere is: | temperature |
The amount of moisture in the air is: | humidity |
The weight of the air causes: | air pressure |
Air circulates around the Earth in big chunks called: | air masses |