Science

Life Science

1. What do plants need to make their own food? (Sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide | Milk, bread, and meat | Soil and rocks only | Darkness and cold air)
2. What process do plants use to make food from sunlight? (Digestion | Respiration | Photosynthesis | Hibernation)
3. Which part of the plant takes in water from the soil? (Leaves | Flowers | Roots | Stems)
4. What gas do plants release during photosynthesis? (Carbon dioxide | Oxygen | Nitrogen | Helium)
5. What is the main job of a flower? (To make food | To take in water | To make seeds | To hold the plant up)
6. Which part of the plant carries water from the roots to the leaves? (Flowers | Stem | Seeds | Fruit)
7. What do we call plants that live for only one year? (Perennials | Annuals | Trees | Evergreens)
8. How do most seeds travel to new places? (They walk | Wind, water, animals, or people | They stay in one place | They dig underground)
9. What happens to a seed when it starts to grow? (It melts | It germinates | It evaporates | It freezes)
10. Which part of the plant makes most of the food? (Roots | Stems | Leaves | Flowers)
11. Animals with backbones are called: (Invertebrates | Vertebrates | Insects | Reptiles only)
12. Which of these is NOT a mammal? (Dog | Whale | Snake | Bat)
13. What is the life cycle stage of a butterfly after it is a caterpillar? (Egg | Adult butterfly | Chrysalis (pupa) | Larva)
14. Animals that eat only plants are called: (Carnivores | Herbivores | Omnivores | Predators)
15. What do amphibians need to keep their skin moist? (Sunlight | Water | Heat | Fur)
16. Which animal goes through metamorphosis? (Dog | Horse | Frog | Bird)
17. Reptiles are cold-blooded. What does this mean? (Their blood is frozen | Their body temperature changes with their environment | They live in cold places only | They have blue blood)
18. Which of these animals lays eggs? (Dog | Cat | Chicken | Cow)
19. What do fish use to breathe underwater? (Lungs | Gills | Skin | Fins)
20. Animals that eat both plants and animals are called: (Herbivores | Carnivores | Omnivores | Producers)
21. In a food chain, what is a producer? (An animal that eats other animals | An organism that makes its own food (like plants) | An animal that is eaten by others | A decomposer)
22. What happens to dead plants and animals in nature? (They disappear forever | They are broken down by decomposers | They turn into rocks | They float away)
23. What is a habitat? (A type of food | The place where an animal or plant lives | A baby animal | A kind of weather)
24. Which of these is an example of a decomposer? (Lion | Tree | Mushroom | Rabbit)
25. Why is the Sun important to most food chains? (It keeps animals warm | It provides energy for plants to make food | It creates water | It makes soil)

Physical Science

1. What are the three states of matter? (Hot, cold, and warm | Solid, liquid, and gas | Big, medium, and small | Light, dark, and clear)
2. Which of these is a solid? (Water | Air | Rock | Oxygen)
3. What happens when water freezes? (It becomes a gas | It becomes a solid (ice) | It disappears | It becomes hotter)
4. What is evaporation? (Water turning from liquid to gas | Water turning from gas to liquid | Water turning into ice | Water disappearing forever)
5. Which state of matter has a definite shape? (Liquid | Gas | Solid | Steam)
6. What is mass? (How tall something is | The amount of matter in an object | The color of something | How fast something moves)
7. Which tool is used to measure mass? (Ruler | Thermometer | Balance or scale | Clock)
8. What happens when you mix salt in water? (The salt disappears forever | The salt dissolves but is still there | The water turns into ice | The salt becomes a gas)
9. A mixture can be separated. Which is an example of a mixture? (Water | Salt | Trail mix (nuts and raisins) | Ice)
10. Which property describes how shiny an object is? (Texture | Size | Luster | Weight)
11. What makes a ball roll down a hill? (Wind | Gravity | Magnetism | Electricity)
12. What type of energy does a moving car have? (Potential energy | Light energy | Kinetic energy | Sound energy)
13. What force slows down a sliding object? (Gravity | Friction | Magnetism | Push)
14. Which materials are attracted to magnets? (Plastic and wood | Glass and rubber | Iron and steel | Paper and cloth)
15. What is needed to make an electrical circuit work? (A complete loop for electricity to flow | Only wires | Only a battery | Magnets)
16. Light travels in: (Curves | Circles | Straight lines | Zigzags)
17. What kind of energy does the Sun give us? (Sound energy only | Light and heat energy | Electrical energy only | Magnetic energy)

Earth Science

1. What causes day and night? (The Sun moving around Earth | Earth rotating on its axis | The Moon blocking the Sun | Clouds covering the Sun)
2. How long does it take Earth to orbit the Sun? (One day | One month | One year | One week)
3. What are the three layers of the Earth? (Water, land, and air | Crust, mantle, and core | Rocks, sand, and soil | Top, middle, and bottom)
4. What type of rock is formed from cooled lava? (Sedimentary | Metamorphic | Igneous | Mineral)
5. What is weathering? (Looking at the weather forecast | Breaking down of rocks over time | Wind blowing | Rain falling)
6. Which resource is renewable? (Oil | Coal | Sunlight | Natural gas)
7. What causes the phases of the Moon? (The Moon changing size | Clouds covering the Moon | The Moon orbiting Earth and how sunlight hits it | The Sun moving)
8. What is erosion? (Rocks getting bigger | Moving of weathered rock and soil by water, wind, or ice | Volcanoes erupting | Plants growing)