District Assessment Study Guide

Name: ___________________________ Date: ____________________________ 5th Grade Science Study Guide QUIZ on Friday, November 6, 2009 AND District Assessment on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 FRIDAY QUIZ (11/6/09) You will need to know: 1. Food Chains: o Where does the energy in a food chain originally come from? o What direction do the arrows follow in a food chain or food web? o Know vocabulary: producer, consumer, herbivore, omnivore, carnivore, food chain, food web, predator, prey o Understand how changes in part of a food chain or food web can affect other parts of the web 2. Adaptations—BODY PARTS or BEHAVIORS that help an organism to survive! o Give examples of physical/structural adaptations (body parts) that might help an organism to survive in each biome (SEE NOTES!) o Give examples of behavioral adaptations (migration, hibernation, playing dead, etc) that might help an organism to survive in each biome (SEE NOTES!) District Assessment TEST (11/10/09) You will need to know ALL of the information included on the Friday Quiz PLUS: 1. The steps of the scientific process/Scientific Process Chant o Review variables and controls—(See Reading passage clipped into NOTES!) a. Only change ONE variable at a time! b. Controls are things that you keep the same o Review TESTABLE QUESTIONS: o Must be measurable, testable, specific, NO OPINIONS! 2. Review scientific tools—NAMES, and USES o Review how to read a graduated cylinder, metric ruler, triple beam balance, and thermometer 3. Review the Water Cycle o Groundwater, Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Run-off o Transpiration = water vapor released from plant leaves during photosynthesis o Why is it important? o What is the energy source behind the water cycle?

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o What happens if you change one part of the water cycle? (THINK: Cause and Effect!) Review the Nitrogen Cycle o Sentence strip study guide—know all parts o Why is it important? o What happens if you change one part of the nitrogen cycle? (THINK: Cause and Effect!) Review the Carbon Cycle o Drawing completed with me in class—know main parts of the cycle o What role do plants (producers) play? o What role do animals (consumers) play? o What other things add to the amount of carbon in our atmosphere? o Why is it important? o What happens if you change one part of the carbon cycle? (THINK: Cause and Effect!) Review Photosynthesis o What materials does a plant need from the environment to carry out photosynthesis? o What are the main products of photosynthesis? o What does a plant “throw away” or release into the atmosphere during photosynthesis? o Why is photosynthesis important to ALL living things on Earth? o Why do we call plants “producers?” Review Reading Charts, Graphs, Tables o Bar Graphs show one-time counts o Line Graphs show relationships OR changes over time o Circle Graphs show parts of a whole—they MUST add up to 100% o Look at the title and scale carefully; introduce yourself to the graph! o Look at each answer choice and use the graph to PROVE or DISPROVE, based on the evidence Know vocabulary: o Infer/Inference = “figure it out” based on the evidence o Analyze = look at very carefully; take it apart piece by piece o Data = information o Precaution = action to prevent an accident o Hazard = dangerous action or situation that may cause an accident o Valid = true o Reliable = trustworthy o Volume = amount of space an object takes up o Mass = amount of “stuff”; amount of matter in an object o Drought = period of dry weather o Scarce = not much of something o Increase = go up in number o Decrease = go down in number o Decline = go down in number (synonym for decrease) o Accurate = correct