WorksheetsScience Fast Facts Study - 6th grade - Mr. Haynes 3rd period
Total questions: 63
Worksheet time: 32mins
What tool is used to measure wind speed?
Anemometer
Barometer
Windmill
Wind sock
What tool is used to measure precipitation?
Barometer
Ruler
Rain Gauge
Anemometer
What is mass?
The color of an object
The amount of matter an object has
The amount of sound an object makes
The height of an object
What is volume?
The amount of matter an object has
The amount of things you can put into an object
The texture of an object
The amount of space a substance takes up
What is an independent/manipulated variable?
A variable that is changed by accident during the investigation
A variable that you are testing/changing on purpose
A variable that stays the same throughout the investigation
A variable that has a certain name
What is a dependent/responding variable?
A variable that stays the same
A variable that is controlled
A variable that you measure as a result of the investigation
A variable that changes
What is a controlled variable?
A variable that changes
A variable that you are testing/changing on purpose
A dependent variable
A variable that stays the same throughout the entire investigation
What is a hypothesis?
A prediction about the outcome of the investigation
Something you think is true or false
A guess about the investigation itself, not the outcome
A variable
What is a bar graph?
A graph used when you are measuring the same variable over time
A graph that is used when you are displaying data in a separate or distinct category
A graph with a bar
A graph that you use to put information on
What is a line graph?
A graph with a line to show change over time
A graph used when you are displaying data in a separate or distinct category
A graph used when you are measuring the same variable over time
A graph
Characteristics of living things
Reproduction
Response to stimuli
Obtain resources and growth + development
Breathing in oxygen
What is a response to a stimulus called?
A stimuli
A reaction
A response
A hypothesis
What are the levels of classification?
Taxonomy
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Genus, Species, and Order
Kingdom, Phloem, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species
What is the study of how scientists classify organisms?
Levels of classification
Taxonomy
Scientific name
Kingdoms
What levels make up a scientific name?
Kingdom and Species
Genus and Class
Genus and Species
Genus and Order
How are animals placed into kingdoms?
Their fur pattern and color
Their ability to make food
The number of cells in their body
If they are a vertabrate or invertabrate
Which are defenses?
The way they move or do things
Teeth, eyes, movement, surroundings
The texture of their body
Thorns, claws, mimicry, and teeth
What is the stamen?
The male part of the flower
The female part of the flower
The anther
The flower itself
What is the pistil
The male part of the flower
The insides of the flower
The female part of the flower
The seed of the flower
Ovary
The egg
The female part of the flower
Where the pollen drops into
Contains the ovules where the egg cells are produced
Stigma
Where the egg cells are produced
The sticky top where the pollen grains land
The anther
The male part of the flower
Style
The female part of the flower
The fruit
Where the egg cells are produced
The pollen tube
What happens during photosynthesis?
The flower's seed turns into a fruit
The flower makes food (sugar)
The plant dies
The plant absorbs sunlight
What happens during respiration?
The plant breaks down food and turns it into energy for it to use during photosynthesis
The plant gains energy
Water is saved from the leaves
The plant absorbs water
What happens during transpiration?
The plant gains water so it can survive
Energy is conserved
Sunlight is absorbed into the plant for energy
Water is saved from the leaves of the plant
Dormancy
The organism is resting
An inactive period of an animal or plant (ex. a bear is dormant during hibernation)
The organism is alive but not moving
The organism gains food and water and stores it inside itself
What is a tropism?
When plants change their growth in response to the environment
A change in the environment
A response to change
When plants become inactive during the winter
What is phototropism?
The way a plant grows or bends in response to water
The way a plant grows or bends in response to light
The way a plant grows or bends in response to energy
The way a plant grows or bends in response to touch
What is gravitropism/geotropism
The way a plant grows or bends in response to touch
The way a plant grows or bends in response to water
The way a plant grows or bends in response to light
The way a plant grows or bends in response to gravity
What is hydrotropism?
The way a plant grows or bends in response to gravity
The way a plant grows or bends in response to touch
The way a plant grows or bends in response to water
The way a plant grows or bends in response to light
What is thigmotropism?
The way a plant grows or bends in response to sound
The way a plant grows or bends in response to touch
The way a plant grows or bends in response to light
The way a plant grows or bends in response to stimulus
What is an invertabrate?
An animal with fur or hair
An animal with no backbone
An animal with a soft body
An animal with a backbone
What is a vertabrate?
An animal with a backbone
An animal with no backbone
A animal with no fur or hair
An animal with no tail or ears
What does it mean to be cold-blooded?
You have cold blood
You rely on external heat since your body doesn't provide you with heat
You rely on internal heat since your body provides you with heat because of energy
You have warm blood
What does it mean to be warm-blooded
You have warm blood
You have cold blood
You rely on external heat since your body doesn't provide you with heat
You rely on internal heat since your body provides you with heat because of energy
What is an mollusk?
An animal with feet
An animal with a soft body and a muscular foot
An animal with a soft shell
An animal with slimy skin
What is an arthropod?
An animal with jointed legs, an exoskeleton, and have a segmented body
An animal who likes to read
An animal with a soft body
An animal with spiny skin
What is the name for a warm-blooded animal?
Cold-blooded
Endothermic
Warm-blooded
Ectothermic
What is the name of a cold-blooded animal?
Cold-blooded
Ectothermic
Warm-blooded
Endothermic
Which is a structure for defense
Walk away
Hide from predator or warn a predator
Have a tea party with them
Hiss at them
Which is a structure for movement?
Eyes, teeth, and head
Legs, fins, and fingers
Legs, fins, and wings
Eyes, fins, and claws
Which is a structure for obtaining reasources?
fingers, toes, teeth, and claws/nails
Hands, legs, and feet
Mouth parts such as beaks, teeth, flexible jaws, and tongues
Beaks, legs, claws, eyes, and teeth
Which is NOT a response to changes in temperature?
Shedding
Change in location
Panting
What is hibernation?
An animal dies during the winter because of starvation
An animal sleeps during the winter
The heart and breathing slow down during the winter to conserve food stored in the body
Just breathing slows down
What is migration?
The movement of animals from one place to another in response to seasonal changes
Moving from one place to another
Birds flying to a different location
A reaction to stimulus
Defense
A structure used to move
A structure used to find food
A structure that animals use to keep themselves from harm
A structure an animal uses in order to attract a mate
What are examples of internal stimulus?
thirst and movement
hunger, thirst, and sleep
tiredness, bleeding, and broken
hunger, thirst, and tropism
What is a learned behavior?
A behavior that is passed down
A behavior that is learned
A behavior that is a result of genes from the parents or instincts
A behavior as a result of conditioning, trial and error, or something they learned from their parents
What is an inherited behavior?
A behavior that is by trial and error
behaviors that are inherited by the parents genes of by intstinct
Behavior that was passed down
A behavior that is learned
All weather occurs here
Stratosphere
Troposphere
Mesosphere
Exosphere
The ozone layer is located here
Mesosphere
Troposphere
Exosphere
Stratosphere
Meteoroids burn up here
Exosphere
Mesosphere
Stratosphere
Troposphere
The space shuttle orbits here
Troposphere
Thermosphere
Exosphere
Mesosphere
Has the least air pressure
Thermosphere
Troposhere
Mesosphere
Exosphere
Clouds that are puffy with flat bottoms
cumulonimbus
Cumulus
cirrus
status
Clouds that are thin and whispy
cumulus
cumulonimbus
status
cirrus
Big clouds that stretch out and cover the whole sky
cumulus
stratus
cirrus
cumulonimbus
It brings thunder, lightning, heavy rains, and strong winds
tornadoe
thunderstorn
hurricane
other
It is rapidly whirling and has a funnel-shape
thunderstorm
hurricane
tornado
other
It's a low pressure tropical storm that forms over warm ocean water
tornado
thunderstorm
hurricane
other
Who is a meteorologist?
A person who studies weather
Someone who knows a lot about meteors
A person who makes weather predictions/forecasts from date
Someone who knows a lot about weather
Land breezes
blows from land to sea
blows from sea to land
Gulf Stream
A cold current water that effects the eastern Atlantic coastline
A warm current water that effects the eastern Atlantic coastline
