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Generation Date: 04/01/2014
Generated By: Che ryl Shelton
Title: Grade 5 Physical Science
1. The wind blows a toy sailboat across a small puddle in one minute.
If the wind blew harder, how how much time would take the sailboat to cross the puddle?
A. It would take more time.
B. It would take the same amount of time.
C. It would take less time.
D. There is not enough information to know.
2.
When light strikes the water in a glass, most of the light is reflected or refracted. What happens
to the rest of the light?
A. It changes into more water.
B.
It cools off the water.
C. It disappears forever.
D. It is absorbed by the water.
3. X-rays are high energy waves that can pass through many objects in much the same way that
light travels through glass. A shield of lead can stop x-rays from going through it.
Sound is another form of energy that moves in waves. Which of the following will stop a sound
wave?
A. a solid wall
B. a lead shield
C. a glass window
D. a vacuum
4.
Light can travel through outer space from the Sun to the Earth. This shows that _______.
A. light can travel only through air
B. light can travel through matter
C. light can travel in a vacuum
D. light can travel only short distances
5. Which of the following always causes a sound to change pitch?
A. changing the speed of the vibration
B.
changing the material that is making the vibration
C. changing the strength of the vibration
D. none of these
6. Jacob pushed a box of books across the garage floor, and the box moved forward.
When the box stopped moving, Jacob rested for a moment, then pushed the box again. This time,
the box moved forward, but faster and farther than the first time.
What kind of force did Jacob put on the box the second time?
A. a pull with more force
B. a push with less force
C. a push with more force
D. a pull with less force
7. A magnifying glass makes use of the fact that light _______ when it travels from one medium
to another.
A. is absorbed
B. moves in a straight line
C. is refracted
D. is reflected
8. Will wants to do an experiment on object motion. To do his experiment, he has a cart and
several weights he can put in the cart.
By putting more weights in the cart, Will can make the cart heavier. By putting fewer weights, he
can make the cart lighter.
Will has a stopwatch, so he can measure how fast the cart goes. If he plans to study the
relationship between the weight of the cart and its speed when pushed with the same amount of
force, what else does Will need?
A. a way to change the force pushing on the cart
B. a way to measure the height of the weights
C. a way to push the cart with the same force every time
D. a way to change the kind of surface the cart travels on
9. What property of light is shown in this picture?
A. Light cannot travel through the air.
B.
C.
Light travels in a straight line.
Light always travels through solid objects.
D. Light bends around objects as it travels.
10. Jordan was using different materials to make musical instruments. He hit a plastic pipe and a
metal pipe with a stick. The metal pipe had a much higher pitch. Which of the following could
explain why the metal pipe had a higher pitch?
A. The pipes were hit with the same stick.
B. The pipes are different colors.
C. The pipes are made from different materials.
D. The pipes are exactly the same size.
11. Which of the objects below probably absorbs the most light?
W.
X.
Y.
Z.
A. W
B. Z
C. X
D. Y
12.
W. Ear drum vibrates.
X. Air around tuning fork vibrates.
Y. Tuning fork vibrates.
Z. Tuning fork is hit.
Which of the following shows the steps above in the order that they must occur for someone to
be able to hear the tuning fork?
A.
Z
Y
B. W
X
C.
D.
X
Y
W
Z
Y
Z
X
W
Z
X
Y
W
13. In the picture below, a ray of light hits a mirror and changes direction. What is this "bouncing
off" action called?
A. condensation
B. refraction
C. reflection
D. evaporation
14. Mariah learned in science class that sound is made from vibrations. When an object vibrates
more quickly, it produces a higher-pitched sound.
Mariah designed an investigation using a guitar. The strings on a guitar each have a different
thickness. Mariah labeled the strings from 1 to 5, making the thinnest string #1 and the thickest
string #5. Then she plucked each string on the guitar and wrote down the number of the strings in
order from lowest pitch to highest pitch.
Investigation of String Thickness & Pitch
Lowest Pitch
String #5
(thickest)
Highest Pitch
String #4 String #3 String #2
String #1
(thinnest)
Based on her data, Mariah could conclude that string #1
A. has the loudest volume.
B. is the longest string.
C. does not vibrate.
D. vibrates the fastest.
15. In the picture of the harp below, the string on the le ft is vibrating faster than the string on the
right.
If Sue is listening to both strings vibrating at the same time, then she should be hearing
A. a sound that is very cold.
B. only one pitch.
C. two different pitches.
D. a sound that has no pitch.
16. Kayla and Thomas are playing tug of war. Both children begin pulling at the same time, but
after a few moments, Kayla and the rope begin moving toward Thomas.
Which child is pulling with the most force?
A. Thomas is pulling with the most force.
B. Kayla and Thomas are pulling with the same force.
C. Neither Kayla nor Thomas are pulling with any force.
D. Kayla is pulling with the most force.
17. A car is driving in the middle of the night, and it is very dark.
Light from the headlights of the car
travels in a curved line.
A.
B.
travels only to objects that are shiny.
C. travels in a straight line.
D. travels in a circle.
18. Kendra is hanging from the monkey bars on the playground.
It gets harder and harder for Kendra to hold on. Then she falls to the ground. What force causes
her to fall?
A. gravity
B. magnetic
C. push
D. friction
19. At the bottom of her steep driveway, Cassandra built a castle out of blocks, as shown in the
picture below.
Cassandra's brother tried to destroy the castle by rolling objects down the driveway at it.
Cassandra tried to protect her castle by crouching in front of it.
As each of her brother's objects rolled down, Cassandra changed its direction of motion so that it
missed her castle.
The first things her brother rolled down were a light beach ball, a heavier soccer ball, and a
skateboard. The skateboard was the heaviest. Which of these objects did Cassandra likely turn
aside using the least amount of force?
A. the skateboard
B. They will all take the same amount of force.
C. the soccer ball
D. the beach ball
20. Vibration speed is measured in hertz. The graph below shows the vibration speeds and
pitches of six sounds.
Pitch & Vibration Speed of Sounds
Which of the following can be concluded from the graph?
The higher the vibration speed of a sound, the higher the pitch.
A.
B. All sounds have the same vibration speed.
C. The pitch of a sound is not related to vibration.
D. As the rate of vibration increases, pitch decreases.