TPE 3rd Grade Year End Review

A walking stick is an insect. What else does this statement tell you about walking sticks?

• Walking sticks have backbones.
• Walking sticks can’t fly.
• Walking sticks are arthropods.
• Walking sticks eat grass.

All invertebrates share only one feature. Which of the following is this feature?

• having a flat body
• having no backbone
• having no brain
• having a heart to pumpblood

The table below describes the features of a specific animal. Which of the following type of animal is described in the table?

• arthropod
• invertebrate
• mammal
• vertebrate

Ms. Li owns a flower shop. She finds a strange-looking bug in the flowers. Which of the following characteristics would show that the bug is actually an insect and not a spider?

• The bug has three main body parts.
• The bug has a hard covering over its body.
• The bug has jointed limbs that it uses to crawl.
• The bug has a body that is segmented.

Water, like other substances, can change from a liquid to a solid. What happens to water that causes it to change from a liquid to a solid?

• It is cooled.
• It is heated.
• It is condensed.
• It is evaporated.

Mrs. Deegan is teaching her students about evaporation. What happens during evaporation?

• something changes from a gas to a liquid
• something changes from a liquid to a gas
• something changes from a liquid to a solid
• something changes from a solid to a liquid

Freezing and melting are opposite processes. Which process is the opposite of condensing?

• cooling
• evaporating
• freezing
• melting

Daniel’s cube has a volume of 20 cubic centimeters. Which of the following does the volume of his cube measure?

• mass of the cube
• shape of the cube
• length of the cube
• space the cube takes up

Abigail has four objects that are about the same shape and size. Which of the following objects will have the most mass?

• foam ball
• round rock
• tennis ball
• paper wad

There are four containers on the table. Two containers have water in them. Two containers have sand in them. Which of the following containers has the greatest volume?

• container with 750 mL of water
• container with 150 mL of water
• container with 150 cubic centimeters of sand
• container with 850 cubic centimeters of sand