5th Grade Science Vocabulary

The amount of matter in an object

• Volume

• Mass

• Matter

• Weight

a change in size, shape, or state of matter that does not create a new kind of matter

• Physical Change

• Chemical Change

• There is no Change

• All of the above

Change in matter that produces new kinds of matter with different properties

• Physical Change

• Chemical Change

• There is no change

• All of the above

an electric charge that builds up on a material

• Magnetism

• Physical Change

• Static Electricity

• Chemical Change

Materials that conduct electricity, such as water

• insulator

• conductor

Materials that don't conduct much electricity, such as rubber.

• insulator

• conductor

Has a north and south pole; opposite ends of me attract to each other; allows objects of metal to stick, an example is the Earth

• electricity

• insulator

• conductor

• bar magnet

An animal with a backbone

• Vertabrate

• Invertabrate

• Mammal

• Fish

Animals with no backbone

• snail

• vertabrate

• invertabrate

• Tiger

Vertebrate with scales, gills, and lays eggs

• Fish

• Amphibian

• Reptile

• Bird

• Mammal