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5th Science All Year

Total questions: 134

Worksheet time: 1hrs 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What biome?

a)

taiga

b)

tundra

c)

temperate forest

d)

desert

2.

What biome?

a)

taiga

b)

savanna

c)

tropical rain forest

d)

deciduous forest

3.

What is true about a deciduous forest?

a)

it has different layers and lots of rain

b)

it has little rain

c)

it has trees that lose their leaves

d)

it has trees that remain green all year

4.
a)

tundra

b)

taiga

c)

tropical rain forest

d)

deciduous forest

5.
a)

savanna

b)

taiga

c)

tropical rain forest

d)

temperate forest

6.

a)

deciduous forest

b)

tropical rain forest

c)

savanna

d)

taiga

7.

a)

taiga

b)

deciduous forest

c)

grassland

d)

tundra

8.

a)

taiga

b)

tropical rain forest

c)

tundra

d)

grassland

9.

a)

taiga

b)

tropical rain forest

c)

deciduous forest

d)

savanna

10.

What is true about deciduous forests?

a)

They keep their leaves all year.

b)

They do not have leaves on the trees.

c)

They have mostly pine trees.

d)

They have trees that lose their leaves in the fall or winter.

11.

What is the coldest biome?

a)

taiga

b)

deciduous forest

c)

tropical rain forest

d)

tundra

12.

What biome receives the LEAST precipitation?

a)

desert

b)

rain forest

c)

savanna

d)

grassland

13.

What biome covers much of North Carolina?

a)

deciduous or temperate forest

b)

desert

c)

taiga

d)

grassland

14.

What is the best meaning of the word temperate?

a)

very hot

b)

very wet

c)

very cold

d)

not very hot or cold

15.

What biome is often near the Equator?

a)

temperate forest

b)

tropical rain forest

c)

taiga

d)

savanna

16.

What biome has thick plants with different layers?

a)

taiga

b)

temperate forest

c)

tropical rain forest

d)

tundra

17.

What is true about a taiga?

a)

It is cold and has mountains and forests.

b)

It has very little water.

c)

It is flat with grass and some trees.

d)

It is frozen almost all year with little plant life.

18.

What biome?

a)

tundra

b)

savanna

c)

ocean

d)

taiga

19.

What biome has the most kinds of plants and animals?

a)

taiga

b)

savanna

c)

temperate forest

d)

tropical rain forest

20.

Much of the tundra is frozen all year round. Only plants with shallow roots can live there. What is this frozen layer of soil called?

a)

ice

b)

taiga

c)

permafrost

d)

biome

21.

Low pressure makes what kind of weather?

a)

clear skies

b)

cloudy skies

c)

sunny days

d)

frost

22.

Which direction does weather usually move across North America?

a)

north to south

b)

east to west

c)

west to east

d)

west to north

23.

What instrument measures air temperature?

a)

thermometer

b)

anemometer

c)

barometer

d)

wind vane

24.

What instrument measures wind speed?

a)

barometer

b)

rain gauge

c)

anemometer

d)

thermometer

25.

What instrument measures wind direction?

a)

wind vane

b)

anemometer

c)

barometer

d)

hygrometer

26.

What instrument measures rainfall?

a)

weather vane

b)

rain gauge

c)

snow gauge

d)

barometer

27.

What instrument measures air pressure?

a)

barometer

b)

anemometer

c)

thermometer

d)

weather vane

28.

What is this instrument?

a)

thermometer

b)

anemometer

c)

barometer

d)

rain gauge

29.

What is this instrument?

a)

anemometer

b)

barometer

c)

rain gauge

d)

satellite

30.

What is this instrument?

a)

thermometer

b)

barometer

c)

anemometer

d)

rain gauge

31.

What instrument is this?

a)

anemometer

b)

thermometer

c)

rain gauge

d)

wind vave

32.

What instrument is this?

a)

anemometer

b)

wind vane

c)

barometer

d)

rain gauge

33.

Rain, snow, hail and sleet are 4 kinds of ____.

a)

atmosphere

b)

air pressure

c)

precipitation

d)

weather fronts

34.

What kind of cloud?

a)

cirrus

b)

stratus

c)

cumulus

d)

cumulonimbus

35.

What kind of cloud?

a)

cumulus

b)

cumulonimbus

c)

stratus

d)

cirrus

36.

What kind of cloud?

a)

stratus

b)

cirrus

c)

cumulous

d)

puffy

37.

What kind of cloud?

a)

cirrus

b)

stratus

c)

cumulonumbus

d)

cumulous

38.

What word means "the mixture of gases and dust that surrounds the Earth"?

a)

weather

b)

pressure

c)

cold front

d)

atmosphere

39.

What is a place where 2 air masses meet?

a)

lightning

b)

biizzard

c)

front

d)

climate

40.

The amount of water in the air is ____.

a)

clouds

b)

frost

c)

humidity

d)

air pressure

41.

When it is summer in the Northern Hemisphere, it is ___ in the Southern Hemisphere

a)

summer

b)

spring

c)

winter

d)

hot

42.

Places on Earth have day and night because ___.

a)

The Earth revolves around the sun

b)

The Earth rotates on its axis

c)

hot air rises

d)

the moon revolves around the Earth

43.

There are seasons on Earth because ___.

a)

the Earth rotates on its axis

b)

the Earth is tilted on its axis

c)

the Earth revolves around the sun

d)

the moon revolves around the Earth.

44.

High pressure makes what kind of weather?

a)

cloudy skies

b)

clear skies

c)

wind

d)

snow

45.

What is made when a cold air mass and a warm air mass come together?

a)

front

b)

atmosphere

c)

transpiration

d)

jet stream

46.

Cumulus clouds usually bring _____.

a)

snow

b)

fair weather

c)

light rain

d)

snow

47.

Cirrus clouds usually bring _____.

a)

heavy rain

b)

fair weather

c)

dark skies

d)

windy days

48.

Cumulonimbus clouds usually bring ___ .

a)

fair weather

b)

thunderstorms

c)

snow

d)

clear skies

49.

Stratus clouds usually bring

a)

fair weather

b)

light or heavy precipitation

c)

severe storms

d)

windy conditions

50.

What does this symbol mean on a weather map?

a)

warm front

b)

cold front

c)

storm warning

d)

high pressure

51.

What does this symbol mean on a weather map?

a)

warm front

b)

cold front

c)

hurricane

d)

storm

52.

What biome?

a)

taiga

b)

desert

c)

grassland

d)

tundra

53.

The thick second layer of the ground is the permafrost. What is true about the permafrost?

a)

It snows on the permafrost.

b)

it warms up like the ground in the tundra.

c)

The permafrost stays frozen underground all year long .

d)

The permafrost dries in the sunlight.

54.

a)

permafrost

b)

snow

c)

thaw

d)

taiga

55.

a)

Northern Lights

b)

Northern Skies

c)

Southern Lights

d)

Western Clouds

56.
a)

lemming

b)

beaver

c)

weasel

d)

hare

57.

Lichens come out too, covering the rocks.

a)

green algae

b)

brown fungus

c)

dark seaweed

d)

colorful fungus and algae

58.
a)

tundra

b)

lemmings

c)

lichen

d)

organism

59.

Far to the north is a land called the tundra.

a)

coldest biome

b)

dry and hot biome

c)

mountain biome with pine trees

d)

biome at the tropics with hot wet climate

60.

The permafrost never gets warm enough to thaw.

a)

freeze and get hard

b)

move

c)

make a shape

d)

warm up and get soft

61.

What system is part of eating?

a)

digestive

b)

respiratory

c)

nervous

d)

skeletal

62.

What system controls breathing?

a)

circulatory

b)

digestive

c)

muscular

d)

respiratory

63.

What system gives your body its shape?

a)

respiratory

b)

skeletal

c)

circulatory

d)

nervous

64.

What system controls the blood going around the body?

a)

circulatory

b)

respiratory

c)

muscular

d)

nervous

65.

In what system does your brain receive and use information?

a)

nervous

b)

skeletal

c)

digestive

d)

respiratory

66.

What system moves your body?

a)

skeletal

b)

muscular

c)

respiratory

d)

nervous

67.

What system do the mouth, stomach and intestines belong to ?

a)

nervous

b)

digestive

c)

respiratory

d)

circulatory

68.

What system do your mouth, nose, trachea and lungs belong to?

a)

respiratory

b)

nervous

c)

muscular

d)

digestive

69.

What system do your brain and spinal cord belong to?

a)

nervous

b)

circulatory

c)

digestive

d)

muscular

70.

What system do your heart, arteries and veins belong to?

a)

muscular

b)

skeletal

c)

circulatory

d)

respiratory

71.

The body exchanges gases in what system?

a)

respiratory

b)

circulatory

c)

skeletal

d)

muscular

72.

What organs are these?

a)

lungs

b)

heart

c)

spinal cord

d)

arteries

73.

What system is this?

a)

circulatory

b)

respiratory

c)

digestive

d)

skeletal

74.

What system is this?

a)

nervous

b)

circulatory

c)

digestive

d)

respiratory

75.

You see a bee and run away. What systems are working?

a)

respiratory and digestive

b)

nervous and skeletal

c)

nervous and muscular

d)

digestive and skeletal

76.

You rode your bike fast and are breathing fast. What two systems are most part of breathing fast from exercise?

a)

nervous and muscular

b)

muscular and skeletal

c)

respiratory and muscular

d)

circulatory and respiratory

77.

You eat a salad. The nutrients go all around your body. What systems make that happen?

a)

respiratory and digestive

b)

digestive and circulatory

c)

nervous and respiratory

d)

skeletal and circulatory

78.

What body part and system is this?

a)

spinal cord, circulatory

b)

heart, skeletal

c)

lungs, respiratory

d)

spinal cord, nervous

79.

What body part and system are this?

a)

ribs, muscular

b)

throat, nervous

c)

lungs, respiratory

d)

heart, respiratory

80.

Humans have different body systems because...

a)

each system exchanges gases

b)

each system has different cells for different jobs

c)

one system can back up the other

d)

all systems protect the body

81.

What muscle pulls air into your lungs and pushed it out?

a)

spine

b)

stomach

c)

ribs

d)

diaphragm

82.

The digestive and circulatory systems work together to ...

a)

send information around the body

b)

push and pull on bones

c)

absorb nutrients and transport them around the body

d)

exchange gases in the lungs

83.

What makes you move?

a)

your blood flowing

b)

your muscles expanding and contracting

c)

your food digesting

d)

your bones giving your body shape

84.

What cloud?

a)

cirrus

b)

cumulus

c)

stratus

d)

cumulonimbus

85.

What cloud?

a)

cumulonimbus

b)

cumulus

c)

cirrus

d)

stratus

86.

What cloud?

a)

stratus

b)

cumulus

c)

cumulonimbus

d)

cirrus

87.

What cloud?

a)

cumulus

b)

cirrus

c)

stratus

d)

cumulonimbus

88.

What kind of weather does high air pressure bring?

a)

clear or sunny skies

b)

cloudy skies

c)

storms

d)

cold fronts

89.

What does an anemometer do?

a)

measures wind speed

b)

measures air pressure

c)

measures wind direction

d)

measures air temperature

90.

What weather does an El Nino bring?

a)

more rain

b)

less rain

c)

more wind

d)

higher tides

91.

What does a barometer measure?

a)

air pressure

b)

wind direction

c)

precipitation

d)

cloud type

92.

What kind of weather does a low pressure system bring?

a)

clouds and rain

b)

clear skies

c)

cumulus clouds

d)

evaporation

93.

What body system exchanges gases?

a)

muscular

b)

nervous

c)

respiratory

d)

digestive

94.

What direction does weather usually move across North America? (1 or more correct answers)

a)

east to west

b)

west to east

c)

to east from west

d)

to west from east

95.

When it is summer in North America, what season is it in South America?

a)

winter

b)

spring

c)

summer

d)

fall

96.

What is true about the jet stream?

a)

it is warm water that moves along the Atlantic coast of North America

b)

it is air moving across North America from west to east and sometimes north to south

c)

it is air moving across North America from east to west and sometimes north to south

d)

it is cold warm water that moves along the Pacific coast of North America

97.

What is true about the Gulf Stream?

a)

it is warm water moving along the Atlantic Coast

b)

it is warm water moving along the Pacific Coast

c)

It is air moving west to east and sometimes north to south

d)

it is air moving east to west and sometimes north to south

98.

What precipitation will most likely fall when the temperature is 20 degrees F?

a)

rain and snow

b)

rain

c)

snow

d)

sleet and hail

99.

What form of precipitation will most likely fall when the temperature is 60 degrees F?

a)

rain

b)

snow

c)

sleet

d)

hail

100.

When it is fall in South America and Australia, what season is it in North America?

a)

autumn

b)

winter

c)

spring

d)

summer

101.

It is 25 degrees F in the morning and 55 degrees in the afternoon.

What precipitation will most likely fall?

a)

snow in the morning and afternoon

b)

rain in the morning and afternoon

c)

rain in the morning and snow in the afternoon

d)

snow in the morning and rain in the afternoon

102.

What cloud?

a)

cumulus

b)

cirrus

c)

stratus

d)

cumulonimbus

103.

What is true about objects falling? Choose all that apply.

a)

Objects with a greater mass fall faster than objects with smaller mass.

b)

Objects with a greater mass fall more slowly than objects with smaller mass.

c)

Objects with a greater mass fall at the same speed as objects with smaller mass.

d)

Objects with the same mass fall at the same speed.

104.

An elephant and a cat jump off a cliff. Who reaches the water first?

a)

elephant because the mass is greater

b)

cat because there is less resistance

c)

elephant and cat reach at the same time because the same gravity is pulling them.

d)

elephant, then the cat because gravity pulls more on bigger objects

105.

A ball slows down after you kick it across a grassy field. What is the biggest reason the ball slows down?

a)

Gravity pulls the ball down.

b)

Friction between the ball and the air slows it down.

c)

Friction between the ball and the grass slows it down.

d)

Wind blows against the ball and slows it .

106.

When water passes from liquid to gas from the bottom of a plant's leaves

a)

respirtation

b)

transpiration

c)

evaporation

d)

condensation

107.

When water changes from a liquid to a gas

a)

evaporation

b)

precipitation

c)

condensation

d)

run off

108.

When water cools and makes a cloud

a)

condensation

b)

transpiration

c)

evaporation

d)

precipitation

109.

When water vapor cools on the outside of a glass of water

a)

condensation

b)

evaporation

c)

transpiration

d)

digestion

110.

When water moves over land because it cannot be absorbed into the ground

a)

run off

b)

precipitation

c)

evaporation

d)

transpiration

111.

Rain, snow, sleet and hail are forms of ___.

a)

precipitation

b)

respiration

c)

evaporation

d)

condensation

112.

What weather does an El Nino bring?

a)

warmer ocean water and more rain

b)

warmer ocean water and less rain

c)

colder ocean water and more wind

d)

colder ocean water and higher tides

113.

The blue wagon has 10 pounds of sand and the red wagon has 25 pounds of sand. What is true about moving them? Check all that apply.

a)

You will need more force to move the heavier wagon.

b)

You will need the same force to move both wagons.

c)

You will need less force to move the heavier wagon.

d)

You will need less force to move the lighter wagon.

114.

What will cause an object to stop moving?

a)

a greater force pushing the object in the same direction it is moving

b)

an equal force pushing the object in the opposite direction it is moving

c)

an equal force pushing the object in the direction it is moving.

d)

a lesser force pushing the object in the same direction it is moving

115.

Andrew walks 2 miles. He walks the first mile in 19 minutes and the second one in 21 minutes. What is true about his walk?

a)

He sped up after the first mile.

b)

He went the same speed on both miles.

c)

He slowed down on the second mile.

d)

He went uphill on the first mile and downhill on the second.

116.

A big bowling ball and a little bowling ball are pushed with the same force. What is true about their speed?

a)

The big ball rolls faster because it has a greater mass.

b)

The little ball rolls faster because it has a lesser mass.

c)

The little ball rolls slower because it has a lesser mass.

d)

The two balls roll at the same speed because they have the same mass.

117.

What traits are inherited?

a)

hair color, eye color and earlope shape

b)

eye color, height and hair style

c)

eye color, musical ability and tongue curling

d)

language spoken, handwriting and food preference

118.

What is the main reason the Earth has seasons?

a)

the Earth rotates on its axis

b)

the Earth revolves around the sun

c)

the moon revolves around the Earth

d)

the Earth is tilted on its axis

119.

What is true about hurricanes?

a)

Hurricanes form from high pressure over North America

b)

Hurricanes form from low pressure over warm ocean water

c)

Hurricanes form from high pressure over warm ocean water

d)

Hurricanes form after thunderstorms

120.

Which are all inherited traits?

a)

dimples, ear lobe, handedness, and blood type

b)

handedness, eye color, hair style, language

c)

eye color, musical ability, tongue rolling, hair style

d)

food preference, language, art talent, math skills

121.

What can make an object moving forward increase its speed?

a)

a force pushing in the opposite direction the object is moving

b)

a force pushing in the same direction the object is moving

c)

an increase in the friction against the object

d)

a decrease in the mass of the object

122.

How would you describe the speed of this object shown here?

a)

moving at a constant speed

b)

speed is increasing over time

c)

speed is decreasing over time

d)

object is stationary

123.

How would you describe the speed of the object in this graph?

a)

the object is stationary

b)

the object is slowing down

c)

the object is speeding up (accelerating)

d)

the object is moving at a constant speed

124.

What does this graph show about the object's movement?

a)

the object is moving faster (accelerating)

b)

the object is slowing down

c)

the object is moving at a constant speed

d)

the object is stationary

125.

What does the graph show about the object's movement?

a)

the object is moving at a constant speed

b)

the object is stationary

c)

the object is moving faster (accelerating)

d)

the object is moving more slowly (decelerating)

126.

Which of the following are abiotic factors?

a)

sand, wind, sun, rain

b)

dolphin, salt water, sea gull, eel

c)

cherry tree, bee, ivy, groundhog

d)

rocks, rain, ants, worms

127.

Which of the following are biotic factors?

a)

tree, grass, sand, crickets

b)

water, wind, sun, rocks

c)

crab, butterfly, sunflower, maple tree

d)

worm, sand, spider, flea

128.

Which of the following are producers?

a)

grass, sunflowers, apple trees, pine trees

b)

apple tree, bee, daisy, worm

c)

raccoon, starfish, hawk, beetle

d)

oak tree, cactus, ant, dandelion

129.

What happens during photosynthesis?

a)

water, carbon dioxide and sunlight make sugar and oxygen

b)

carbon dioxide and sunlight make sugar, water and oxygen

c)

water and sunlight make sugar and oxygen

d)

sugar and oxygen make water, carbon dioxide and sunlight

130.

Plants are _______because they ___ .

a)

producers /make their own food

b)

consumers/make their own food

c)

producers/find their own food

d)

decomposers/ break down food

131.

What are examples of chemical change?

a)

burning wood and digesting food

b)

slicing bread and metal rusting

c)

melting popsicles and boilng water

d)

warming soup and striking a match

132.

What are examples of physical change?

a)

shredding paper and boiling water

b)

setting of fireworks and cooking chicken

c)

freezing ice and an apple rotting

d)

burning wood and digesting food

133.

When you mix vegetables to make a salad, you are making a

a)

physical change because the vegetables are smaller but the same

b)

chemical change because you digest them

c)

physical change because cutting them makes a new substance

d)

chemical change because you can't put them back together

134.

When you fry an egg, the egg undergoes a

a)

physical change because it is still an egg

b)

chemical change because frying the egg changes it

c)

physical change because you can put the egg back in the shell

d)

chemical change because the colors are the same