Grade 6 Inspire Science T1 Review

Grade 6 Inspire Science T1 Review

by Farah Jardine

Poll

Are you ready to revise Module 1?

MODULE 1 - ENERGY IN THE ATMOSPHERE​

Multiple Choice

Water has been left in a pot on a hot stove. Bubbles form throughout the liquid and rise to the top. Which type of change is this?

• boiling

• evaporation

• density

• condensation

Multiple Choice

What can you add to this liquid particulate model to show increased energy?

• more curved lines to each particle

• arrows

• the energy cannot be increased

Multiple Choice

When a substance is heated, the particles gain energy and move apart, increasing the volume. The mass of the substance being heated _______.

• increases

• decreases

• stays the same

• varies unpredictably

Multiple Choice

Particles vibrate in place and do not change relative positions.

• solid

• liquid

• gas

Multiple Choice

What happens to particles when their temperature increases?

• The particles move slower

• The particles move faster

• The particles lose mass

• The particles gain mass

Multiple Choice

What happens when the speed of particles decreases?

• Their temperature decreases

• Their temperature increases

• Their mass decreases

• Their mass increases

Multiple Choice

When water sits in the freezer and freezes into ice, it is because the water has...

• gained mass

• gained energy

• lost mass

• lost energy

Multiple Choice

When ice sits out on a counter and melts, it is because the ice has...

• gained mass

• gained energy

• lost mass

• lost energy

Multiple Choice

Thermal energy flows from areas of...

• high thermal energy to areas of low thermal energy.

• low thermal energy to areas of high thermal energy.

Multiple Choice

All substances contain thermal energy.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Multiple Choice

The amount of energy transferred during thermal energy transfer is called _____________.

• cold

• heat

• conduction

• air

Multiple Choice

The transfer of energy from one material to another by electromagnetic waves is called...

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

Multiple Choice

The transfer of energy from part of a material to another part (such as in the earth's mantle) is called...

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

Multiple Choice

Thermal energy from the sun can only travel to the earth through....

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

Multiple Choice

A cold bathroom floor is an example of

• Conductor
• Thermal conductivity
• Cold weather
• Insulators

Multiple Choice

Hot water heaters are both conductors and insulators.

• True
• False

Multiple Choice

What is an insulator?

• A coat
• Something that. doesn't allow heat to pass through it
• Something to stop music
• Something that allows heat to pass through

Multiple Choice

Thermal conductivity is....

• How fast heat passes through something
• How hot certain materials get
• Something that doesn'treadily allow heat to pass theough
• Metals

Poll

Are you ready to revise Module 2?

Multiple Choice

What are the 3 main stages of the water cycle?

• Evaporation, Condensation & Precipitation

• Evaporation, Condensation & Perspiration

• Transpiration, Surface Runoff & Groundwater

• Psychrometer, Infiltration & Transpiration

Multiple Choice

As air cools, water vapor in the air...

• Condenses back into a liquid

• Expands into a solid

• Contracts into acid rain

• Freezes into a cloud

Multiple Select

Which two conditions are required in order to form a cloud?

• Particles in the air

• Cooling of the air

• Warming of the air

• Ice in the air

Multiple Choice

What is happening at (3)?

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Surface Runoff

Multiple Choice

The water cycle has...

• A beginning and an end!

• No beginning and no end!

• Only a beginning!

• Only an end!

Multiple Choice

What are the three states of water found on Earth?

• Solid, Liquid & Gas

• Oceans, Lakes & Streams

• Humidity, Evaporation & Transpiration

• Rain, Sleet & Hail

Multiple Choice

In the lab demonstration "Make it Rain," the sponge was dipped into the water multiple times until it was ___________ and started to drip, simulating precipitation.

• empty

• saturated

• complete

• situated

Multiple Choice

Water storage areas such as oceans, lakes, glaciers, ice caps and groundwater are also called...

• reservations

• researchers

• reservoirs

• resemblers

Multiple Choice

Areas of permeable sediment or rock below our feet that hold significant amounts of water are called...

• aquariums

• aquifers

• Aquafinas

• aqueducts

Multiple Select

Select all that apply.

Groundwater is replenished when...

• precipitation falls to the Earth in any form

• people drill wells and pull water out of the ground

• water moves naturally to the ocean

• surface water in areas like lakes seeps into the ground

Multiple Choice

The angle of incoming sunlight and the amount of solar energy transferred to various parts of the Earth from the sun depends largely on ________.

• longitude

• latitude

Poll

Are you ready to revise Module 3?

Multiple Choice

Solar energy is more concentrated at Earth's _______, which results in higher temperatures and longer days.

• poles

• equator

Multiple Choice

Air has a __________ specific heat that both water and land; this means that it absorbs and releases thermal energy _________ than both land and water.

• lower; faster

• higher; faster

• lower; slower

• higher; slower

Multiple Choice

In the lab "To Absorb or Not to Absorb," we learned that ________ paper absorbs thermal energy faster because it has a _________ albedo.

• black; high

• black; low

• white; high

• white; low

Multiple Choice

Wind is the movement of air from areas of _____ pressure to areas of _____ pressure.

• low; high

• high; low

Multiple Choice

Warm air rises and flows north and south, away from _____________.

• the poles

• the equator

• landmasses

• oceans

Multiple Choice

The transfer of thermal energy by the movement of particles within matter is called ____________.

• conduction

• radiation

• convection

Multiple Choice

Cold winds that blow from east to west near the North and South Pole are called___________.

• polar easterlies

• prevailing westerlies

• trade winds

Multiple Choice

Steady winds that flow from west to east between 30 degrees north and 60 degrees north and 30 degrees south and 60 degrees south are called___________.

HINT: These winds blow across the US.

• polar easterlies

• prevailing westerlies

• trade winds

Multiple Choice

The Coriolis effect causes moving air and water to appear to curve to the _______ in the Northern Hemisphere and to the ______ in the Southern Hemisphere.

• right; left

• left; right

Multiple Choice

Which of these choices is densest and would sink to the bottom?

• Warm, fresh water

• Cold, fresh water

• Warm, salt water

• Cold, salt water

Multiple Choice

Which of the following are the effects of an occluded front?

• Cooler weather and rain or snow

• Drizzly rain and warm weather

• Clear skies followed by rain

• Clear, sunny weather

Multiple Choice

Cold air is denser than warm air, so it sinks. What kind of pressure area does this create?

• Dense pressure

• High pressure

• Low pressure

• No pressure

Multiple Choice

What kind of weather is associated with high air pressure?

• Clouds and rain

• Clouds without rain

• Clear skies

• Tornadoes

Multiple Choice

What happens when a warm moist air mass and a cooler dry air mass meet at Earth’s surface?

• The sky becomes clear

• Winds die down

• There are fewer clouds

• Stormy weather builds up

Multiple Choice

Climate is the long-term average weather conditions that occur where?

• around the globe

• locally

• in a particular region

• in the troposhere

Multiple Choice

What the area of the earth called which gets the most sun?

• polar

• equator

• latitudes

• earths peak

Multiple Choice

As the orbit of the earth around the sun changes, what happens?

• The climate changes.

• Temperature rises.

• The orbit is different.

• Nothing happens.