#3 SC Ready Science 4th

When white light shines on Peter's shirt, the shirt looks blue.  Why does his shirt look blue?

• it absorbs all the white light and turns most of it into blue light
• it reflects the blue part of the light and absorbs most of the other colors
• it absorbs only the blue part of the light 
• it gives off its own blue light

The length of your shadow is shortest at noon.  At which time of day would your shadow be the longest?

• 4pm
• 3am
• 1pm
• 11am

Which of the following behavior is a sign that the animal is thirsty and is looking for water?

• a rattlesnake flicking its tongue and smelling the air 
• an elephant pawing and digging in the ground in a dry riverbed
• a possum playing dead
•  a wolf scratching the ground and moving in circles right before laying down 

An instinct is a behavior that an organism is born with.  Animals are born capable of many things.  Which of these behaviors is an instinct?

• a baby sea turtle crawling from the beach to the ocean 
• a park ground squirrel taking peanuts from a human
• a horse counting by pawing at the ground
• a dog sitting up and speaking for food 

Which of the following is NOT an inherited characteristics of a particular type of flowering plant?

• the type of stem 
• the shape 
• the amount of light a plant gets 
• the color of the flowers produced

Materials such as wood and metal do not let light travel through them. We cannot see through them at all. They are said to be 

• opaque
• invisible 
• transparent 
• translucent 

What explains how day and night occur in different parts of Earth?

• Earth rotates on its axis 
• The sun rotates on its axis
• Earth revolves around the sun
• The sun revolves around  the galaxy

If you are playing in a baseball game and a thunderstorm is approaching, which of the following actions is the safest?

• continue to play
• get in the dugout
• get under a tree
• get in a car 

When water evaporates, it changes from a

• solid to a gas 
• liquid to a gas
• liquid to a solid
• solid to a liquid

The suns energy caused water from the ocean to make these clouds.  What happens to the water to form the clouds?

• irrigation
• evaportation
• precipitation
• condensation