Earth and Space
Science Questions and 31. What causes day and night?
Answer: Earth’s rotation
Answers 32. Which season has the longest daylight hours?
Answer: Summer
33. What natural disaster is caused by movement of tectonic plates?
Answer: Earthquake
34. What is a lunar eclipse?
Matter Answer: When the Earth blocks sunlight from reaching the Moon
1. What are the three common states of matter? 35. Which phase of the moon looks like a full circle?
Answer: Solid, Liquid, Gas Answer: Full moon
2. Ice melting into water is an example of what kind of change? 36. Name one renewable natural resource.
Answer: A. Physical Answer: Solar energy (or wind, water)
3. Which of the following is a mixture? 37. Which planet is closest to the Sun?
Answer: A. Salt water Answer: Mercury
4. What tool is used to measure the mass of an object? 38. What type of weather tool measures temperature?
Answer: Balance or scale Answer: Thermometer
5. Which state of matter takes the shape of its container and has a fixed 39. What can people do to conserve water?
volume? Answer: Turn off the tap while brushing teeth (or fix leaks, use less
Answer: Liquid water)
6. What is a property of solids? 40. True or False: Climate is the day-to-day condition of the
Answer: Definite shape and volume atmosphere.
7. Which process turns liquid into gas? Answer: False
Answer: Evaporation or boiling
8. True or False: A solution is a type of mixture.
Answer: True
9. What kind of change happens when wood burns?
Scientific Processes and Skills
41. What is the first step of the scientific method?
Answer: Chemical change
Answer: Ask a question
10. What state of matter are oxygen and carbon dioxide?
42. What do we call a guess based on observations?
Answer: Gas
Answer: Hypothesis
43. What tool would you use to measure liquid volume?
Answer: Graduated cylinder
Energy 44. What is classification in science?
11. Which of these is NOT a form of energy? Answer: Grouping things based on similar characteristics
Answer: C. Paper 45. What is one thing you should always wear during a science
12. A push or pull is called a: experiment?
Answer: Force Answer: Safety goggles
13. What type of energy is produced by vibrating objects? 46. Which of the senses is most used when observing?
Answer: Sound energy Answer: Sight
14. What simple machine has a wheel and a rope? 47. What do scientists use to record and analyze data?
Answer: Pulley Answer: Charts, tables, or graphs
15. Which color of light is bent the most when passing through a 48. A testable explanation for a question is called a:
prism? Answer: Hypothesis
Answer: Violet 49. Give an example of a safe behavior in the science lab.
16. Which material is a good conductor of electricity? Answer: Follow teacher’s instructions
Answer: Metal (e.g., copper) 50. What scientific attitude means telling the truth about your
17. What do magnets attract? observations?
Answer: Iron or other magnetic materials Answer: Honesty
18. What is the main source of heat and light for the Earth?
Answer: The Sun
19. A ramp is an example of what kind of simple machine?
Answer: Inclined plane
20. Sound travels fastest in which medium?
Answer: C. Solid
Living Things and Their Environment
21. What is a group of organisms that live together in an area and
interact with each other called?
Answer: Community
22. Which organ system includes the heart and blood vessels?
Answer: Circulatory system
23. Which of the following is a producer in a food chain?
Answer: B. Grass
24. What is the function of roots in a plant?
Answer: To absorb water and anchor the plant
25. What is an adaptation?
Answer: A trait that helps an organism survive in its environment
26. A lion eats a zebra. What type of consumer is the lion?
Answer: Carnivore
27. True or False: Heredity is the passing of traits from parents to
offspring.
Answer: True
28. What organ system helps us breathe?
Answer: Respiratory system
29. Give one safety rule when working in a science lab.
Answer: Wear safety goggles (or follow instructions)
30. What is a food web?
Answer: A network of interconnected food chains