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Science State Test Vocab

Total questions: 72

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the study of the natural world?

a)

Biology

b)

Science

c)

Atoms

d)

Mixtures

2.

What is an investigation?

a)

A procedure carried out in order to test, study, or observe something in order to learn about it.

b)

A procedure only used for testing.

c)

A test used to observe a living thing.

d)

It is the same as a hypothesis.

3.

Information collected in scientific investigation is called what?

a)

Forensic Science

b)

Details

c)

Evidence

d)

Nothing, we just write it in our journal.

4.

Which is NOT an example of an opinion?

a)

I look so good today.

b)

It is too hot outside for me.

c)

I live in Clinton.

d)

I am a fabulous singer.

5.

What are scientific methods?

a)

They are used to determine a variable.

b)

Methods of becoming a scientist.

c)

Theories used in investigation.

d)

The way that scientists perform investigations.

6.

What is an investigation in which all conditions are controlled?

a)

Experiment.

b)

A hypothesis.

c)

A microscope.

d)

A scientific journal.

7.

Can a variable be changed?

a)

Yes, a variable is any condition in a experiment that can be changed,

b)

No, variables are constant.

c)

Sometimes, it depends on the hypothesis.

d)

Only when reacted on by a large force.

8.

What is a control?

a)

Having power over someone.

b)

Taking over for something.

c)

The response to a chemical reaction.

d)

The setup to which you will compare all others.

9.

What is the size of something that is too small to see with just your eye?

a)

Really little.

b)

Microscopic.

c)

1 milligram

d)

Macroscopic

10.

What is a balance used for?

a)

To not fall over.

b)

To measure weight.

c)

To measure mass.

d)

To measure force.

11.

What does a spring scale measure?

a)

Mass

b)

Density

c)

Volume

d)

Force

12.

What is it called when something is measured close to true size?

a)

Accurate

b)

Close to true size

c)

Life size

d)

Balanced

13.

A meter is the metric unit of what?

a)

mass

b)

length

c)

force

d)

speed

14.

A gram is a metric unit for what?

a)

Mass

b)

Force

c)

Distance

d)

Speed

15.

Force is measure in what?

a)

Gravities

b)

Speed

c)

Newtons

d)

Grams

16.

What is volume?

a)

The distance from the edge of a cup to the other

b)

The area of a circle

c)

Mass x Acceleration

d)

The amount of space that something takes up.

17.

What are domains?

a)

A food web

b)

A food chain

c)

The three broadest groups for classification

d)

A kingdom

18.

The kingdom that contains mushrooms and yeast is called what?

a)

Fungi

b)

Bacteria

c)

Morrell

d)

Speci Yeastalis

19.

What is classification?

a)

The first kingdom

b)

The organization of living things into categories.

c)

It contains bacteria

d)

Putting decomposers into a a genus

20.

What is the name that identifies a unique organism?

a)

Subculture

b)

Decomposer

c)

Species

d)

Classification

21.

What is the first part of the scientific name of an organism?

a)

Species

b)

Genus

c)

Kingdom

d)

Mushroom

22.

What classification level comes after the domain?

a)

Kingdom

b)

Species

c)

Genus

d)

Mastus

23.

What is a dichotomous key?

a)

a chart that shows how identify landmarks on a map

b)

a key to answering a food web

c)

a chart that shows how a food web works

d)

a chart with many choices that guides you to the name of the thing you want to identify.

24.

What is an organisms environment?

a)

All the living and nonliving things that surround and affect the organism.

b)

Only the living things that surround and affect the organism.

c)

Only the nonliving things that surround and affect the organism.

d)

Things that have no effect on an organism.

25.

All the organisms living in a place together with their environment is what?

a)

Environment

b)

Colony

c)

Ecosystem

d)

Hive

26.

What is a group of organisms of the same species in an ecosystem.

a)

Abiotic

b)

Biome

c)

Community

d)

Population

27.

What are all the populations that live and interact in an area called?

a)

A population

b)

A community

c)

A hydrosphere

d)

A biome

28.

The place an organism lives within an ecosystem is called what?

a)

Community

b)

Niche

c)

Habitat

d)

Population

29.

What is an organisms role or function in its community?

a)

Its niche

b)

Its biome

c)

Its job

d)

Its community

30.

What is abiotic?

a)

Living

b)

A cell

c)

A cloud

d)

Nonliving

31.

What is biotic?

a)

Living

b)

A cell

c)

A cloud

d)

Nonliving

32.

What is the definition of invasive?

a)

A species that grows in water.

b)

A vine only grown on building.

c)

A nonnative species that moves into a new place.

d)

A native species that is overtaken by a nonnative species.

33.

What is an example of pollution?

a)

Swimming in a pond

b)

Littering

c)

Eating from a garden

d)

Riding a bike

34.

What occurs when no rain falls for a long period of time?

a)

Heavy rainfall

b)

Less clouds

c)

Drought

d)

Flood

35.

What happened to dodo birds and Tasmanian wolves?

a)

The became extinct.

b)

They adapted to new life.

c)

They evolved.

d)

Nothing

36.

What is the process where plants make food?

a)

Soaking in food

b)

mineral drinking

c)

sunlight absorption

d)

photosynthesis

37.

What is the green molecule that helps photosynthesis take place?

a)

blastocytes

b)

chlorophyll

c)

atoms

d)

minerals

38.

What are organisms that make their own food?

a)

Decomposers

b)

Producers

c)

Eaters

d)

Vegetarians

39.

What organisms cannot make their own food?

a)

Producers

b)

Decomposers

c)

Omnivores

d)

Consumers

40.

What organism breaks down waste and the remains of dead animals?

a)

Producers

b)

Omnivores

c)

Decomposers

d)

Herbivores

41.

What is prey?

a)

A hunter

b)

An animal that is hunted by other animals.

c)

A stalker

d)

A predator

42.

What living thing hunts and eats other animals?

a)

Predators

b)

Prey

c)

Herbivores

d)

Decomposed animals

43.

What organism eats dead plants and animals

a)

Predator

b)

Prey

c)

Scavenger

d)

Hunter

44.

What animal only eats producers

a)

Omnivore

b)

Herbivore

c)

Carnivore

d)

None

45.

What animal eats plants and other animals?

a)

Ominvore

b)

Herbivore

c)

Carnivore

d)

none

46.

The transfer of food energy from one organism to the next is what?

a)

Food map

b)

Food web

c)

Food chain

d)

predator

47.

What shows how food chains overlap?

a)

Food webs

b)

Food maps

c)

Food chain

d)

Connected food chains

48.

The process of a rock breaking apart is what?

a)

Freezing

b)

Expanding

c)

Weathering

d)

Gasses

49.

The process of moving weather rock from one place to another is what?

a)

Pollution

b)

Cracking

c)

Gasses

d)

Erosion

50.

Small pieces of rock are called what?

a)

Small pieces of rock

b)

Sediment

c)

Volcanic ash

d)

Mantle

51.

What is not in a solar system?

a)

Star

b)

Planets

c)

Space objects

d)

Phantom planets

52.

What is a large round body that revolves around a star?

a)

Planet

b)

Rings

c)

Comets

d)

Moon rocks

53.

What are chunks of frozen gasses, rock, ice and dust?

a)

Moon rocks

b)

Saturns rings

c)

Comets

d)

Mercury

54.

Huge balls of hot, glowing gasses that produces their own heat are called what?

a)

Comets

b)

Planets

c)

Solar Sytems

d)

Stars

55.

What is a of a group of a billion stars, the objects that orbit the stars, gas, and dust?

a)

The solar system

b)

gravity

c)

A galaxy

d)

milky way

56.

What contains everything that exists?

a)

The universe

b)

The galaxy

c)

The Milky Way

d)

The Solar Systems

57.

What state of matter has a definite shape and volume?

a)

Liquid

b)

Gas

c)

Solid

58.

What is the measure of energy of motion of particles of matter

a)

Temperature

b)

Newtons

c)

Mass

d)

Distance

59.

Anything that has mass and volume is what?

a)

solid

b)

liquid

c)

gas

d)

matter

60.

Mass divided by volume

a)

Distance

b)

Density

c)

Volume

d)

Work

61.

The state of matter that has particles slide by each other

a)

Solid

b)

Liquid

c)

Gas

62.

The state of matter that expands to fill its container.

a)

Solid

b)

Liquid

c)

Gas

63.

In what does the identity of the matter stay the same?

a)

Physical change

b)

Chemical change

c)

Reaction

d)

Properties

64.

In a reaction, the identity of the matter changes.

a)

True

b)

False

65.

A combination of two or more substances that keep their identities.

a)

Solid

b)

Mixture

c)

Atom

d)

Solution

66.

A mixture that has the same compositions throughout.

a)

Mixture

b)

Atom

c)

Solution

d)

Problem

67.

A force is a what?

a)

Push or pull

b)

Balance beam

c)

Planet

d)

Star

68.

The force of attraction between two objects.

a)

Pull

b)

Newtons

c)

Force

d)

Gravity

69.

A force that opposes motion.

a)

Gravity

b)

Friction

c)

Force

d)

Newton

70.

Balanced forces are forces that are unequal in size and direction.

a)

True

b)

False

71.

A force that causes a change in motion.

a)

Balanced forces

b)

Unbalanced friction

c)

Unbalanced forces

d)

Balanced friction

72.

The tendency of an object to resist a change in motion.

a)

Gravity

b)

Newton

c)

A push or pull

d)

Inertia