WorksheetsScience State Test Vocab
Total questions: 72
Worksheet time: 36mins
What is the study of the natural world?
Biology
Science
Atoms
Mixtures
What is an investigation?
A procedure carried out in order to test, study, or observe something in order to learn about it.
A procedure only used for testing.
A test used to observe a living thing.
It is the same as a hypothesis.
Information collected in scientific investigation is called what?
Forensic Science
Details
Evidence
Nothing, we just write it in our journal.
Which is NOT an example of an opinion?
I look so good today.
It is too hot outside for me.
I live in Clinton.
I am a fabulous singer.
What are scientific methods?
They are used to determine a variable.
Methods of becoming a scientist.
Theories used in investigation.
The way that scientists perform investigations.
What is an investigation in which all conditions are controlled?
Experiment.
A hypothesis.
A microscope.
A scientific journal.
Can a variable be changed?
Yes, a variable is any condition in a experiment that can be changed,
No, variables are constant.
Sometimes, it depends on the hypothesis.
Only when reacted on by a large force.
What is a control?
Having power over someone.
Taking over for something.
The response to a chemical reaction.
The setup to which you will compare all others.
What is the size of something that is too small to see with just your eye?
Really little.
Microscopic.
1 milligram
Macroscopic
What is a balance used for?
To not fall over.
To measure weight.
To measure mass.
To measure force.
What does a spring scale measure?
Mass
Density
Volume
Force
What is it called when something is measured close to true size?
Accurate
Close to true size
Life size
Balanced
A meter is the metric unit of what?
mass
length
force
speed
A gram is a metric unit for what?
Mass
Force
Distance
Speed
Force is measure in what?
Gravities
Speed
Newtons
Grams
What is volume?
The distance from the edge of a cup to the other
The area of a circle
Mass x Acceleration
The amount of space that something takes up.
What are domains?
A food web
A food chain
The three broadest groups for classification
A kingdom
The kingdom that contains mushrooms and yeast is called what?
Fungi
Bacteria
Morrell
Speci Yeastalis
What is classification?
The first kingdom
The organization of living things into categories.
It contains bacteria
Putting decomposers into a a genus
What is the name that identifies a unique organism?
Subculture
Decomposer
Species
Classification
What is the first part of the scientific name of an organism?
Species
Genus
Kingdom
Mushroom
What classification level comes after the domain?
Kingdom
Species
Genus
Mastus
What is a dichotomous key?
a chart that shows how identify landmarks on a map
a key to answering a food web
a chart that shows how a food web works
a chart with many choices that guides you to the name of the thing you want to identify.
What is an organisms environment?
All the living and nonliving things that surround and affect the organism.
Only the living things that surround and affect the organism.
Only the nonliving things that surround and affect the organism.
Things that have no effect on an organism.
All the organisms living in a place together with their environment is what?
Environment
Colony
Ecosystem
Hive
What is a group of organisms of the same species in an ecosystem.
Abiotic
Biome
Community
Population
What are all the populations that live and interact in an area called?
A population
A community
A hydrosphere
A biome
The place an organism lives within an ecosystem is called what?
Community
Niche
Habitat
Population
What is an organisms role or function in its community?
Its niche
Its biome
Its job
Its community
What is abiotic?
Living
A cell
A cloud
Nonliving
What is biotic?
Living
A cell
A cloud
Nonliving
What is the definition of invasive?
A species that grows in water.
A vine only grown on building.
A nonnative species that moves into a new place.
A native species that is overtaken by a nonnative species.
What is an example of pollution?
Swimming in a pond
Littering
Eating from a garden
Riding a bike
What occurs when no rain falls for a long period of time?
Heavy rainfall
Less clouds
Drought
Flood
What happened to dodo birds and Tasmanian wolves?
The became extinct.
They adapted to new life.
They evolved.
Nothing
What is the process where plants make food?
Soaking in food
mineral drinking
sunlight absorption
photosynthesis
What is the green molecule that helps photosynthesis take place?
blastocytes
chlorophyll
atoms
minerals
What are organisms that make their own food?
Decomposers
Producers
Eaters
Vegetarians
What organisms cannot make their own food?
Producers
Decomposers
Omnivores
Consumers
What organism breaks down waste and the remains of dead animals?
Producers
Omnivores
Decomposers
Herbivores
What is prey?
A hunter
An animal that is hunted by other animals.
A stalker
A predator
What living thing hunts and eats other animals?
Predators
Prey
Herbivores
Decomposed animals
What organism eats dead plants and animals
Predator
Prey
Scavenger
Hunter
What animal only eats producers
Omnivore
Herbivore
Carnivore
None
What animal eats plants and other animals?
Ominvore
Herbivore
Carnivore
none
The transfer of food energy from one organism to the next is what?
Food map
Food web
Food chain
predator
What shows how food chains overlap?
Food webs
Food maps
Food chain
Connected food chains
The process of a rock breaking apart is what?
Freezing
Expanding
Weathering
Gasses
The process of moving weather rock from one place to another is what?
Pollution
Cracking
Gasses
Erosion
Small pieces of rock are called what?
Small pieces of rock
Sediment
Volcanic ash
Mantle
What is not in a solar system?
Star
Planets
Space objects
Phantom planets
What is a large round body that revolves around a star?
Planet
Rings
Comets
Moon rocks
What are chunks of frozen gasses, rock, ice and dust?
Moon rocks
Saturns rings
Comets
Mercury
Huge balls of hot, glowing gasses that produces their own heat are called what?
Comets
Planets
Solar Sytems
Stars
What is a of a group of a billion stars, the objects that orbit the stars, gas, and dust?
The solar system
gravity
A galaxy
milky way
What contains everything that exists?
The universe
The galaxy
The Milky Way
The Solar Systems
What state of matter has a definite shape and volume?
Liquid
Gas
Solid
What is the measure of energy of motion of particles of matter
Temperature
Newtons
Mass
Distance
Anything that has mass and volume is what?
solid
liquid
gas
matter
Mass divided by volume
Distance
Density
Volume
Work
The state of matter that has particles slide by each other
Solid
Liquid
Gas
The state of matter that expands to fill its container.
Solid
Liquid
Gas
In what does the identity of the matter stay the same?
Physical change
Chemical change
Reaction
Properties
In a reaction, the identity of the matter changes.
True
False
A combination of two or more substances that keep their identities.
Solid
Mixture
Atom
Solution
A mixture that has the same compositions throughout.
Mixture
Atom
Solution
Problem
A force is a what?
Push or pull
Balance beam
Planet
Star
The force of attraction between two objects.
Pull
Newtons
Force
Gravity
A force that opposes motion.
Gravity
Friction
Force
Newton
Balanced forces are forces that are unequal in size and direction.
True
False
A force that causes a change in motion.
Balanced forces
Unbalanced friction
Unbalanced forces
Balanced friction
The tendency of an object to resist a change in motion.
Gravity
Newton
A push or pull
Inertia
