5th Grade Science Vocabulary Quiz

The planets that are past the asteroid belt are called ____.

• dwarf planets

• outer planets

• inner planets
• gas giants

The amount of matter contained within an object refers to the objects ____.

• weight
• volume
• mass

• volume

A form of learning in which a very young animal fixes its attention on the first object with which it has visual, auditory, or tactile experience and thereafter follows that object

• Habituation
• Imprinting
• Trial and error
• Conditioning

An idea that can be tested by experiment or observation.

• Control

• Hypothesis

• Habitat

• Photosynthesis

The bending of light as it moves through one medium into another.

• Refraction

• Gravity

• Electrical current

• Reflection

Characteristics or attributes of an organism that are passed from parents to offspring.

• Environmental

• Inherited traits

• Species

• Learned behaviors

A substance or object that allows energy to flow through it easily

• Conductor

• Insulator

• Physical properties

• Solubility

The condition of an experiment that is changed in order to find out the effect of that change; cause.

• Evidence

• Extinction

• Dependent variable

• Independent variable

The object sinks to the bottom of the container it is _____ than water.

• more dense

• lighter
• equal in density
• more buoyant

A combination of two or more pure substances in which each pure substance retains its individual chemical properties is called ____.

• solution
• mixture
• compound
• element