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YEAR 6 BASIC SCIENCE

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A wheel with a rope or belt around it. Helps a person lift or move something up, down, or across an area.

a)

wage

b)

axe

c)

pulley

d)

spin

2.

A __________ is often used to hold Simple machine together.

a)

screw

b)

wage

c)

table

d)

plia

3.

Igneous Rock that cools very quickly when it forms may have a texture that is

a)

smooth and shiny with no visible rain

b)

multicolored and banded

c)

course grained

d)

made up of jagged grains

4.

Which of these is the best measure of how much space an object or substance takes up?

a)

mass

b)

volume

c)

length

d)

density

5.

A food web is a more realistic model of the flow of energy through an ecosystem than a food chain because

a)

most organisms depend on more than one species for food

b)

each organism in a food chain represents multiple feedings

c)

most organisms depend on just one species for food

d)

each organism in a food web represents a single feeding

6.

Which of the following has the greatest potential energy?

a)

a rock on the ground

b)

a rock twenty feet off the ground

c)

a rock being tossed

d)

a rock falling

7.

When force is used to move an object across a distance, this is called________________________

a)

effort

b)

work

c)

effort

d)

power

8.

Work is equal to _____________ multiplied by distance

a)

Power

b)

acceleration

c)

friction

d)

force

9.

All of these are examples of a wheel and axle except_________

a)

pizza cutter

b)

windmill

c)

doorknob

d)

pulley

10.

A lever that turns back and forth on a wheel is called_____________________.

a)

effort

b)

fulcrum

c)

work

d)

load

11.

Earth's ________ on its axis causes day and night.

a)

rotation

b)

revolution

c)

phase

d)

comet

12.

The moon is a natural ______ of Earth.

a)

comet

b)

axis

c)

satellite

d)

space probe

13.

Why does Earth have different seasons?

a)

because of the distance between Earth and the sun

b)

because of the speed of Earth as it rotates on its axis

c)

because of the amount of light blocked by the moon on its axis

d)

because of the tilt of Earth on its axis as it moves around the sun

14.

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 ________.

a)

month

b)

day and night

c)

seasons

d)

year

15.

Which planet is farthest from the sun?

a)

Neptune

b)

Uranus

c)

Mars

d)

Earth

16.

Which planet is seventh from the sun?

a)

Saturn

b)

Earth

c)

Venus

d)

Uranus

17.

Every compound is a molecule but not every molecule is a compound

a)

true

b)

false

c)

maybe

d)

somehow

18.

One of the tiniest particle in the entire universe is _____________________

a)

cell

b)

atom

c)

gas

d)

liquid

19.

Which part of an atom has no charge?

a)

protons

b)

neutrons

c)

electrons

d)

atoms

20.

Solar eclipses occur during which Moon phase?

a)

New Moon

b)

Waning Crescent

c)

Waxing Crescent

d)

Waning Gibbous