1. Organisms with the ability to retain water
are best adapted to live in what type of
ecosystem?
2. Name three types of processes that cause
slow changes to the surface of the earth?
3. Give three examples of thermal energy
found on earth?
4. What are the three states of matter, and
how are they different?
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1. Observing the bugs found in the soil of a
forest could best be done by using what
science tool?
2. Plants, animals and water are classified as
what type of natural resource?
3. A burning candle gives off what types of
energy?
4. The ability of an object to sink or float is
known as the objects ________?
1. Food chains and webs show how what,
moves in an ecosystem?
2. How long does it take the earth to make
one revolution around the sun, and what
does it cause on earth?
3. Energy moving in a circle is known as a
what?
4. Give two examples of objects that are
good conductors of electricity?
1. What is the difference between complete
and incomplete metamorphosis?
2. What important gas does the process of
photosynthesis reduce in the atmosphere?
3. Light energy passing through a glass of
water will most likely do what?
4. When water vapor cools and changes to a
liquid, this is known as what?
1. Name three types of adaptations that
organisms might develop?
2. What keeps the planets in orbit around the
Sun?
3. Any type of machine that converts
potential into kinetic energy can be
classified as what type of energy?
4. Name two types of mixtures?
1. Name three types of consumers and give
an example of each?
2. As the moon orbits the earth, it causes
what to occur twice daily?
3. Rubber, plastic and wood all are examples
of what?
4. Name one property of matter that never
changes?
1. Name three traits that you inherited from
your parents?
2. Name three types of processes that cause
rapid changes to the surface of the earth?
3. When you turn a radio on, you transform
electrical energy into what type of energy?
4. Thermal energy from the sun can cause a
puddle of water to do what?
1. Name three types of natural disasters that
can cause change in an ecosystem?
2. Deposition can cause the development of
what two landforms?
3. What force brings raindrops to the ground
on earth?
4. Name three types of metals that are
attracted to a magnet?
1. Name four basic needs that every animal
has within their environment?
2. Glaciers can cause which type of slow
changes to the surface of the earth?
3. Moving water can be converted into what
type of important energy?
4. Which process will separate the water
from a sugar water solution?
1. A turtle’s shell is an adaptation that best
helps it do what?
2. If you were going to determine the mass of
a rock, what science tool could you use?
3. What type of energy powers the water
cycle?
4. A fruit salad’s components are easily
separated, this is an example of a what?
1. Name three types of animals that are
classified as herbivores?
2. How do volcanoes help build up new layers
of land on earth?
3. What type of energy has to be applied to
cause water to boil?
4. When you add salt to water and it
dissolves, this is known as what?
1. Name three types of carnivores?
2. What causes day and night on earth?
3. Lightning is a form of what type of energy?
4. Particles in a gas are spaced far apart,
particles in solid are ___________?
1. Cactus in a desert have what adaptation
that helps them survive?
2. Fossil fuels are formed over millions of
years from what two things?
3. What are two things that light does when it
encounters a surface?
4. When the temperature drops below 0ºC,
liquid will begin to ____________?
1. Something that is taught and not passed
on from mom and dad is known as what?
2. What do you call things from the past that
help us understand what things were like?
3. Name three things that you have to apply a
pushing force to move?
4. What could you use to separate a mixture
of iron filings and sand?
1. What do plants have to absorb in order to
make their own food?
2. What two landforms can you find on both
the earth and moon?
3. In a simple circuit, what is considered to
be the power source?
4. What will happen to a chocolate bar if it is
left on the sidewalk in the sunlight?
1. What are 3 types of adaptations that
organisms use to get their food?
2. Name 3 inexhaustible resources on earth?
3. Name 3 things that you have to apply a
pulling force to move?
4. Cork and foam are considered to be what
type of materials?
1. All food chains and food webs start with
energy from what?
2. Name three types of alternative energies,
and why are they important?
3. Name two instances where friction might
occur?
4. What is the only substance on earth that
can be found in all three states of matter?
1. Name two types of ecosystems that are
opposites of one another?
2. What is the difference between weather
and climate?
3. What does sound energy produce?
4. Lemonade, would best be classified as
what type of substance?
1. Name 3 types of decomposers on earth?
2. Mountain peaks are usually sharp and
steep, what can cause them to wear down
and become smooth and flat?
3. Light traveling through a pair of lenses will
do what?
4. Name 3 properties of matter that can be
changed by adding heat?
1. A pond ecosystem becomes polluted, what
affect might this have on the organisms
living within it?
2. Why are nonrenewable resources named
that way?
3. Name six types of simple machines?
4. Does wood sink or float in water?
1. How might a scientist use the skull of an
organism from the past to find out what it
ate?
2. Name the planets in order from the sun?
3. Energy is very important we use it
everyday, it gives us the ability to _______?
4. The water cycle uses heat energy to
evaporate water, and then condense it to
form _____________?
1. Both plants and animals have life cycles
that do what?
2. Low pressure systems most likely produce
what type of weather?
3. The distance a book travels when a
pushing force is applied can best be
measured in what unit of length?
4. What are 3 examples of solutions you see
in your home everyday?
1. Besides the atmosphere, where is the
nutrient nitrogen found?
2. Name 3 factors that can cause erosion?
3. What type of energy is released when
wood is burned?
4. The appearance of salt disappearing in
water is known as what?
1. What is the niche of an organism within its
ecosystem?
2. Name 4 factors that can cause
weathering?
3. Which type of energy is released when a
phone rings?
4. Name the 3 steps of the water cycle?
1. When evaluating a model of a food web
what 3 things should you do?
2. What science equipment should you wear
when using a hammer to weather a rock?
3. Asking the question, “What type of
materials can conduct electricity,” is the
first step of the scientific process, what is
this called?
4. What science tool could you use to
generate heat to evaporate a solution?
1. Name 2 organisms that go through
incomplete metamorphosis?
2. Name 5 landforms found on the earth’s
surface?
3. A car’s motor is an example of what type
of energy?
4. Name 2 physical properties of matter that
never change?
1. Name 3 predators found here in South
Texas?
2. The sun on earth is responsible for doing
what two things on earth?
3. Like poles on a magnet will do what?
4. If a snow flake falls on the ground and
melts, what can you conclude?
1. Organisms with the ability to retain water
are best adapted to live in what type of
ecosystem?
2. Name three types of processes that cause
slow changes to the surface of the earth?
3. Give three examples of thermal energy
found on earth?
4. Give two examples of objects that are
good conductors of electricity?
1. An increase in carbon dioxide in an area,
means that there might be less what?
2. Being able to see your shadow on the
ground in the middle of the day is likely
cause by what?
3. In order to get an ice cube to melt you
must apply what type of energy?
4. Heating and cooling are both ways to
cause matter to do what?
1. An increase in predators in a certain
environment will cause the amount of prey
in the area to do what?
2. If our nonrenewable resources run out,
which natural resources are we going to
have to begin to use more of?
3. What type of energy and force has to be
applied to get dead plants and animals to
become fossil fuels?
4. Muddy rivers will eventually become clear
again, why does this happen?