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Science Fast Facts Study - 6th grade - Mr. Haynes 3rd period

Total questions: 63

Worksheet time: 32mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What tool is used to measure wind speed?

a)

Anemometer

b)

Barometer

c)

Windmill

d)

Wind sock

2.

What tool is used to measure precipitation?

a)

Barometer

b)

Ruler

c)

Rain Gauge

d)

Anemometer

3.

What is mass?

a)

The color of an object

b)

The amount of matter an object has

c)

The amount of sound an object makes

d)

The height of an object

4.

What is volume?

a)

The amount of matter an object has

b)

The amount of things you can put into an object

c)

The texture of an object

d)

The amount of space a substance takes up

5.

What is an independent/manipulated variable?

a)

A variable that is changed by accident during the investigation

b)

A variable that you are testing/changing on purpose

c)

A variable that stays the same throughout the investigation

d)

A variable that has a certain name

6.

What is a dependent/responding variable?

a)

A variable that stays the same

b)

A variable that is controlled

c)

A variable that you measure as a result of the investigation

d)

A variable that changes

7.

What is a controlled variable?

a)

A variable that changes

b)

A variable that you are testing/changing on purpose

c)

A dependent variable

d)

A variable that stays the same throughout the entire investigation

8.

What is a hypothesis?

a)

A prediction about the outcome of the investigation

b)

Something you think is true or false

c)

A guess about the investigation itself, not the outcome

d)

A variable

9.

What is a bar graph?

a)

A graph used when you are measuring the same variable over time

b)

A graph that is used when you are displaying data in a separate or distinct category

c)

A graph with a bar

d)

A graph that you use to put information on

10.

What is a line graph?

a)

A graph with a line to show change over time

b)

A graph used when you are displaying data in a separate or distinct category

c)

A graph used when you are measuring the same variable over time

d)

A graph

11.

Characteristics of living things

a)

Reproduction

b)

Response to stimuli

c)

Obtain resources and growth + development

d)

Breathing in oxygen

12.

What is a response to a stimulus called?

a)

A stimuli

b)

A reaction

c)

A response

d)

A hypothesis

13.

What are the levels of classification?

a)

Taxonomy

b)

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Genus, Species, and Order

c)

Kingdom, Phloem, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species

d)

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species

14.

What is the study of how scientists classify organisms?

a)

Levels of classification

b)

Taxonomy

c)

Scientific name

d)

Kingdoms

15.

What levels make up a scientific name?

a)

Kingdom and Species

b)

Genus and Class

c)

Genus and Species

d)

Genus and Order

16.

How are animals placed into kingdoms?

a)

Their fur pattern and color

b)

Their ability to make food

c)

The number of cells in their body

d)

If they are a vertabrate or invertabrate

17.

Which are defenses?

a)

The way they move or do things

b)

Teeth, eyes, movement, surroundings

c)

The texture of their body

d)

Thorns, claws, mimicry, and teeth

18.

What is the stamen?

a)

The male part of the flower

b)

The female part of the flower

c)

The anther

d)

The flower itself

19.

What is the pistil

a)

The male part of the flower

b)

The insides of the flower

c)

The female part of the flower

d)

The seed of the flower

20.

Ovary

a)

The egg

b)

The female part of the flower

c)

Where the pollen drops into

d)

Contains the ovules where the egg cells are produced

21.

Stigma

a)

Where the egg cells are produced

b)

The sticky top where the pollen grains land

c)

The anther

d)

The male part of the flower

22.

Style

a)

The female part of the flower

b)

The fruit

c)

Where the egg cells are produced

d)

The pollen tube

23.

What happens during photosynthesis?

a)

The flower's seed turns into a fruit

b)

The flower makes food (sugar)

c)

The plant dies

d)

The plant absorbs sunlight

24.

What happens during respiration?

a)

The plant breaks down food and turns it into energy for it to use during photosynthesis

b)

The plant gains energy

c)

Water is saved from the leaves

d)

The plant absorbs water

25.

What happens during transpiration?

a)

The plant gains water so it can survive

b)

Energy is conserved

c)

Sunlight is absorbed into the plant for energy

d)

Water is saved from the leaves of the plant

26.

Dormancy

a)

The organism is resting

b)

An inactive period of an animal or plant (ex. a bear is dormant during hibernation)

c)

The organism is alive but not moving

d)

The organism gains food and water and stores it inside itself

27.

What is a tropism?

a)

When plants change their growth in response to the environment

b)

A change in the environment

c)

A response to change

d)

When plants become inactive during the winter

28.

What is phototropism?

a)

The way a plant grows or bends in response to water

b)

The way a plant grows or bends in response to light

c)

The way a plant grows or bends in response to energy

d)

The way a plant grows or bends in response to touch

29.

What is gravitropism/geotropism

a)

The way a plant grows or bends in response to touch

b)

The way a plant grows or bends in response to water

c)

The way a plant grows or bends in response to light

d)

The way a plant grows or bends in response to gravity

30.

What is hydrotropism?

a)

The way a plant grows or bends in response to gravity

b)

The way a plant grows or bends in response to touch

c)

The way a plant grows or bends in response to water

d)

The way a plant grows or bends in response to light

31.

What is thigmotropism?

a)

The way a plant grows or bends in response to sound

b)

The way a plant grows or bends in response to touch

c)

The way a plant grows or bends in response to light

d)

The way a plant grows or bends in response to stimulus

32.

What is an invertabrate?

a)

An animal with fur or hair

b)

An animal with no backbone

c)

An animal with a soft body

d)

An animal with a backbone

33.

What is a vertabrate?

a)

An animal with a backbone

b)

An animal with no backbone

c)

A animal with no fur or hair

d)

An animal with no tail or ears

34.

What does it mean to be cold-blooded?

a)

You have cold blood

b)

You rely on external heat since your body doesn't provide you with heat

c)

You rely on internal heat since your body provides you with heat because of energy

d)

You have warm blood

35.

What does it mean to be warm-blooded

a)

You have warm blood

b)

You have cold blood

c)

You rely on external heat since your body doesn't provide you with heat

d)

You rely on internal heat since your body provides you with heat because of energy

36.

What is an mollusk?

a)

An animal with feet

b)

An animal with a soft body and a muscular foot

c)

An animal with a soft shell

d)

An animal with slimy skin

37.

What is an arthropod?

a)

An animal with jointed legs, an exoskeleton, and have a segmented body

b)

An animal who likes to read

c)

An animal with a soft body

d)

An animal with spiny skin

38.

What is the name for a warm-blooded animal?

a)

Cold-blooded

b)

Endothermic

c)

Warm-blooded

d)

Ectothermic

39.

What is the name of a cold-blooded animal?

a)

Cold-blooded

b)

Ectothermic

c)

Warm-blooded

d)

Endothermic

40.

Which is a structure for defense

a)

Walk away

b)

Hide from predator or warn a predator

c)

Have a tea party with them

d)

Hiss at them

41.

Which is a structure for movement?

a)

Eyes, teeth, and head

b)

Legs, fins, and fingers

c)

Legs, fins, and wings

d)

Eyes, fins, and claws

42.

Which is a structure for obtaining reasources?

a)

fingers, toes, teeth, and claws/nails

b)

Hands, legs, and feet

c)

Mouth parts such as beaks, teeth, flexible jaws, and tongues

d)

Beaks, legs, claws, eyes, and teeth

43.

Which is NOT a response to changes in temperature?

a)

Shedding

b)

Change in location

c)

Panting

44.

What is hibernation?

a)

An animal dies during the winter because of starvation

b)

An animal sleeps during the winter

c)

The heart and breathing slow down during the winter to conserve food stored in the body

d)

Just breathing slows down

45.

What is migration?

a)

The movement of animals from one place to another in response to seasonal changes

b)

Moving from one place to another

c)

Birds flying to a different location

d)

A reaction to stimulus

46.

Defense

a)

A structure used to move

b)

A structure used to find food

c)

A structure that animals use to keep themselves from harm

d)

A structure an animal uses in order to attract a mate

47.

What are examples of internal stimulus?

a)

thirst and movement

b)

hunger, thirst, and sleep

c)

tiredness, bleeding, and broken

d)

hunger, thirst, and tropism

48.

What is a learned behavior?

a)

A behavior that is passed down

b)

A behavior that is learned

c)

A behavior that is a result of genes from the parents or instincts

d)

A behavior as a result of conditioning, trial and error, or something they learned from their parents

49.

What is an inherited behavior?

a)

A behavior that is by trial and error

b)

behaviors that are inherited by the parents genes of by intstinct

c)

Behavior that was passed down

d)

A behavior that is learned

50.

All weather occurs here

a)

Stratosphere

b)

Troposphere

c)

Mesosphere

d)

Exosphere

51.

The ozone layer is located here

a)

Mesosphere

b)

Troposphere

c)

Exosphere

d)

Stratosphere

52.

Meteoroids burn up here

a)

Exosphere

b)

Mesosphere

c)

Stratosphere

d)

Troposphere

53.

The space shuttle orbits here

a)

Troposphere

b)

Thermosphere

c)

Exosphere

d)

Mesosphere

54.

Has the least air pressure

a)

Thermosphere

b)

Troposhere

c)

Mesosphere

d)

Exosphere

55.

Clouds that are puffy with flat bottoms

a)

cumulonimbus

b)

Cumulus

c)

cirrus

d)

status

56.

Clouds that are thin and whispy

a)

cumulus

b)

cumulonimbus

c)

status

d)

cirrus

57.

Big clouds that stretch out and cover the whole sky

a)

cumulus

b)

stratus

c)

cirrus

d)

cumulonimbus

58.

It brings thunder, lightning, heavy rains, and strong winds

a)

tornadoe

b)

thunderstorn

c)

hurricane

d)

other

59.

It is rapidly whirling and has a funnel-shape

a)

thunderstorm

b)

hurricane

c)

tornado

d)

other

60.

It's a low pressure tropical storm that forms over warm ocean water

a)

tornado

b)

thunderstorm

c)

hurricane

d)

other

61.

Who is a meteorologist?

a)

A person who studies weather

b)

Someone who knows a lot about meteors

c)

A person who makes weather predictions/forecasts from date

d)

Someone who knows a lot about weather

62.

Land breezes

a)

blows from land to sea

b)

blows from sea to land

63.

Gulf Stream

a)

A cold current water that effects the eastern Atlantic coastline

b)

A warm current water that effects the eastern Atlantic coastline