5th Grade Science Prep

Question 1

What is a smart guess you can test?

Answer 1

Hypothesis

Question 2

What is the part you change in an experiment?

Answer 2

Variable

Question 3

What is the part of the experiment you control, or change?

Answer 3

Independent variable

Question 4

What is the part of the experiment that changes based on the independent variable?

Answer 4

Dependent variable

Question 5

What do you call the information you collect?

Answer 5

Data

Question 6

What you see, hear, or notice is often called…

Answer 6

An observation

Question 7

What do we call what you learned from the experiment?

Answer 7

Conclusion

Question 8

What word do we use to describe finding dize, length, or amount with a tool?

Answer 8

Measurement

Question 9

What is the process called in which plants make food using sunlight, water, and air?

Answer 9

Photosynthesis

Question 10

What is an animal that hunts other animals?

Answer 10

Predator

Question 11

What is an animal that gets hunted?

Answer 11

Prey

Question 12

What do you call where a plant or animal lives?

Answer 12

Habitat

Question 13

What do we call any living thing?

Answer 13

An organism

Question 14

What do we call the process in which a seed starts to grow?

Answer 14

Germination

Question 15

What is the order in which organisms in an ecosystem depend on each other for food and energy?

Answer 15

Food Chain

Question 16

What is the group of food chains within an ecosystem called?

Answer 16

Food Web

Question 17

What do we call the organism that makes its own food (plants)?

Answer 17

Producers

Question 18

What do we call an organism that gets its energy from eating other organisms?

Answer 18

Consumer

Question 19

What do we call bacteria and other organisms that cause decay, they are important because they add nutrients to the soil?

Answer 19

Decomposer

Question 20

Movement of soil or rocks by water or wind

Answer 20

Erosion

Question 21

Breaking rocks into smaller pieces

Answer 21

Weathering

Question 22

The path one object takes around another

Answer 22

Orbit

Question 23

Gas turning into liquid

Answer 23

Condensation

Question 24

Remains of plants or animals from long ago

Answer 24

Fossil

Question 25

Tiny bits of rock and dirt that settle in layers

Answer 25

Sediment

Question 26

Continuous movement of water on, above, or below the earth’s surface

Answer 26

Water Cycle

Question 27

How much matter is in something

Answer 27

Mass

Question 28

How much space something takes up

Answer 28

Volume

Question 29

The power to move or change things

Answer 29

Energy

Question 30

The force that slows things down

Answer 30

Friction

Question 31

A Push or pull

Answer 31

Force

Question 32

Pulls certain metals like iron

Answer 32

Magnet

Question 33

Movement or change in position

Answer 33

Motion

Question 34

Energy in motion (ex: a ball rolling, a car driving, a swing swinging)

Answer 34

Kinetic Energy

Question 35

Stored energy

Answer 35

Potential Energy

Question 36

A bar that moves to lift or push like a seesaw

Answer 36

Lever

Question 37

A wheel and rope to lift things easily

Answer 37

Pulley

Question 38

A sloped surface or ramp

Answer 38

Inclined Plane

Question 39

A wheel that spins on a rod to move things

Answer 39

Wheel & Axle

Question 40

What do we call a summary of what was learned?

Answer 40

A Conclusion

Question 41

What is a community of living things and nonliving things?

Answer 41

An ecosystem

Question 42

What is a trait that helps an organism survive?

Answer 42

Adaptation

Question 43

Anything that takes up space

Answer 43

Matter

Question 44

The smallest unit of matter

Answer 44

Atom

Question 45

How much matter is in something

Answer 45

Mass

Question 46

The force that pulls objects towards Earth

Answer 46

Gravity