5th Grade Science STAAR Review 7

The ability to cause change is:

• Work
• Force
• Energy
• Mass

__________ is an energy resource that WILL NOT run out in the next several hundred years.

• Renewable Energy Resource
• Nonrenewable Energy Resource
• Fossil Fuel
• Forever Fuel

__________ is an energy resource that WILL run out in the next several hundred years.

• Renewable Energy Resource
• Nonrenewable Energy Resource
• Fossil Fuels
• Forever Fuels

__________is a gas found under the Earth’s surface and is used to produce energy by burning it.

• Geothermal
• Natural Gas
• Solar
• Nuclear

__________uses heat from the interior of the Earth.

• Solar
• Geothermal
• Nucler
• Wind

_________is compacted matter dug from under the Earth’s surface that is used to provide energy by burning it.

• Hydro
• Coal
• Nuclear
• Geothermal

The following are all examples of instincts except:

• Blinking
• Breathing
• Talking
• Swallowing

A dolphin that catches bubbles and balances a bouncy ball after a whistle is because of ___.

• learned behavior

• instinct

• inherited trait

What is NOT an example of an inherited TRAIT?

• eye color
• tongue rolling
• height
• speaking a language

Which of these is not an inherited trait?

• a bird building a nest
• a turtle burying its eggs
• a bear hibernating in winter
• a horse pulling a plow