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WorksheetsYEAR 6 BASIC SCIENCE
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
A wheel with a rope or belt around it. Helps a person lift or move something up, down, or across an area.
wage
axe
pulley
spin
A __________ is often used to hold Simple machine together.
screw
wage
table
plia
Igneous Rock that cools very quickly when it forms may have a texture that is
smooth and shiny with no visible rain
multicolored and banded
course grained
made up of jagged grains
Which of these is the best measure of how much space an object or substance takes up?
mass
volume
length
density
A food web is a more realistic model of the flow of energy through an ecosystem than a food chain because
most organisms depend on more than one species for food
each organism in a food chain represents multiple feedings
most organisms depend on just one species for food
each organism in a food web represents a single feeding
Which of the following has the greatest potential energy?
a rock on the ground
a rock twenty feet off the ground
a rock being tossed
a rock falling
When force is used to move an object across a distance, this is called________________________
effort
work
effort
power
Work is equal to _____________ multiplied by distance
Power
acceleration
friction
force
All of these are examples of a wheel and axle except_________
pizza cutter
windmill
doorknob
pulley
A lever that turns back and forth on a wheel is called_____________________.
effort
fulcrum
work
load
Earth's ________ on its axis causes day and night.
rotation
revolution
phase
comet
The moon is a natural ______ of Earth.
comet
axis
satellite
space probe
Why does Earth have different seasons?
because of the distance between Earth and the sun
because of the speed of Earth as it rotates on its axis
because of the amount of light blocked by the moon on its axis
because of the tilt of Earth on its axis as it moves around the sun
As the Earth travels around the sun, this tilt causes different areas of the Earth’s surface to get different amounts of daylight at different times of the year. The angle of the Sun’s rays to the surface also causes areas to have more or less of the Sun’s energy. This causes the ________.
month
day and night
seasons
year
Which planet is farthest from the sun?
Neptune
Uranus
Mars
Earth
Which planet is seventh from the sun?
Saturn
Earth
Venus
Uranus
Every compound is a molecule but not every molecule is a compound
true
false
maybe
somehow
One of the tiniest particle in the entire universe is _____________________
cell
atom
gas
liquid
Which part of an atom has no charge?
protons
neutrons
electrons
atoms
Solar eclipses occur during which Moon phase?
New Moon
Waning Crescent
Waxing Crescent
Waning Gibbous
