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    Name: ___________________________

    Date: ____________________________

    5th

    Grade Science Study Guide

    QUIZ on Friday, November 6, 2009

    ANDDistrict 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 otherparts of the web

    2. AdaptationsBODY 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 toolsNAMES, 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!)

    4. Review the Nitrogen Cycle

    o Sentence strip study guideknow all parts

    o Why is it important?

    o

    What happens if you change one part of the nitrogen cycle? (THINK: Causeand Effect!)

    5. Review the Carbon Cycle

    o Drawing completed with me in classknow 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!)

    6. Review Photosynthesis

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    What materials does a plant need from the environment to carry outphotosynthesis?

    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?

    7. 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 wholethey 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

    8. 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

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