5th Grade Science

The energy that provides us the food we eat comes first from the

• plant

• sun

• nutrients in the soil

• water

Why does the sun look small in the sky to us?

• It is 93,000,000 miles away
• It is smaller than Earth
• It is not very bright
• It travels around Earth

What does a herbivore eat?

• meat

• candy

• fish

• plants

What causes shadows to get bigger / smaller and move throughout the day?

• Earth's rotation around the sun

• Moon's orbit around the Earth

• The sun moving around the Earth

The Earth rotates on its axis every _________.

• day

• hour

• year

An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead organisms, non-living material or waste

• producer
• consumer
• decomposer

Earth's rotation causes observable patterns like _____ and _____.

• earthquakes and tornados

• night and day

• butterflies and rainbows

What are three common phases of matter?

• solid, liquid and gas
• atom, element and molecule
• mixture, solution and compound
• mass, volume and temperature

What is the nearest star to planet Earth?

• Moon

• Sun

• Sirius

• Proxima Centauri

Nonliving parts of an ecosystem:

• abiotic factors

• biotic factors