5th Grade Science Terms

What word means getting bigger, more, or stronger over time?

• decreasing

• increasing

• acceleration

• force

A push or pull on an object is _______.

• force

• gravity

• motion

• net force

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Behaviors that animals are born with and don't need to learn is _________.

• genetics

• inheritance

• learned behaviors

• instincts

What is the study of our surroundings, including both living and non-living things?

• habitat

• environment

• surroundings

• generations

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How things are not the same.

• similarities

• opposites

• differences

• properties

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The process of making something colder or less hot.

• conserve

• heating

• cooling

• heat transfer

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When a liquid turns into a gas, and disappears into the air.

• evaporation

• condensation

• dissolve

• heating

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This organ controls your body.

• lungs

• heart

• stomach

• brain

_____ are tiny wires in your body that send messages back and forth between your brain and the rest of your body.

• Nerves

• Arteries

• Veins

• Capillaries

The basic unit of life is the _______.

• atom

• cell

• tissue

• vessels

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