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6th Grade Science SOL Review

Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the 4 planet from the sun?

a)

Mars

b)

Mercury

c)

Earth

d)

Neptune

2.

What does the earth rotate on?

a)

Axis

b)

Rotation

c)

Revolution

d)

Middle

3.

What season is after winter?

a)

Spring

b)

Summer

c)

Fall

d)

Second Winter

4.

_____ is the movement of a planet around the sun.

a)

Revolution

b)

Rotation

c)

Orbit

d)

Comet

5.

____ is where all space programs in the US are operated from here.

a)

Mephis

b)

LA

c)

NASA

d)

Washington D.C

6.

____ is a small body that circles the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

a)

Light Year

b)

Satellite

c)

Comet

d)

Asteroid

7.

____ is the turning of a planet on its axis.

a)

Revolution

b)

Rotation

c)

orbit

d)

Circles

8.

_____ is a big ball of dirty ice and snow in space.

a)

Asteroid

b)

Meteorite

c)

Comet

d)

Planet

9.

______ is the attraction that one object has for another due to gravity.

a)

Orbit

b)

Gravitational Pull

c)

Axis

d)

Rotation

10.

_____ is a small body or moon orbiting a planet.

a)

Comet

b)

Asteroid

c)

Satellite

d)

NASA

11.

_____ is the approximate distance from the sun to Earth.

a)

Light year

b)

Astronomical Unit

c)

1 mile

d)

1 Kilometer

12.

_____ is the distance light can travel in one year.

a)

Astronomical Unit

b)

Light Year

c)

Mile

d)

300 miles

13.

_____ is an imaginary line that passes from pole to pole through the center of a planet.

a)

Axis

b)

Line

c)

Middle

d)

Gravitational Pull

14.

What are the inner planets?

a)

Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn

b)

Mercury, Earth, Mars

c)

Mercury and Venus

d)

Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars

15.

What are the outer planets?

a)

Pluto

b)

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto

c)

Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

d)

Mars, Jupiter, Uranus

16.

Which of the following is a renewable resource?

a)

Biomass

b)

Coal

c)

Propane

d)

Uranium

17.

Which of the following is a non-renewable resource?

a)

Hydropower

b)

Biomass

c)

Geothermal

d)

Propane

18.

_________ are resources that can be replenished in a short time.

a)

non-renewable resources

b)

renewable resources

c)

Recyclables

d)

Plastic

19.

Warm air _____.

a)

Rises

b)

Sinks

20.

_____ is water in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from the clouds onto the Earth's surface.

a)

Evaporation

b)

Condensation

c)

Precipitation

d)

Runoff

21.

_____ is the process by which clouds form as water vapor cools and changes into liquid water droplets.

a)

Infiltration

b)

Runoff

c)

Transpiration

d)

Condensation

22.

____ is how water soaks down into the ground.

a)

Runoff

b)

Infiltration

c)

Evaporation

d)

Transpiration

23.

_____ is the water that flows across land and into streams, rivers, or oceans.

a)

Runoff

b)

Rivers

c)

Infiltration

d)

Transpiration

24.

_____ is the process by which water on Earth's surface changes form liquid to water vapor.

a)

Transpiration

b)

Evaporation

c)

Infiltration

d)

Precipitation

25.

________ is evaporation of water into the atmosphere from the leaves and stems of plants.

a)

Evaporation

b)

Condensation

c)

Precipitation

d)

Transpiration

26.

What are the 3 states of water in the water cycle?

a)

Ice, water, steam

b)

solid, liquid, gas

c)

hot, cold, warm

27.

What are the 2 states of water in precipitation?

a)

Solid, liquid

b)

steam, vapor

c)

rain, snow

28.

What causes the shape of the clouds?

a)

Water

b)

Wind

c)

People

d)

Goats

29.

Clouds are formed by the ______ of water.

a)

Evaporation

b)

Condensation

c)

Precipitation

d)

Snow

30.

Which types of clouds are associated with rain?

a)

Stratus

b)

Cumulus

c)

Cirrus

31.

Which type of cloud is associated with fair weather?

a)

Stratus

b)

Cirrus

c)

Cumulus

32.

Which type of coulds signals the approach of a change of weather?

a)

Cirrus

b)

Cumulus

c)

Stratus

33.

What is a warm air mass slides over a cold air mass. This type of front can cause precipitation in the form of rain, sleet, or snow.

a)

Occluded Front

b)

Cold front

c)

Warm Front

d)

Stationary Front

34.

What is it when a cold air mass and warm air mass move towards each other. The warm air gets lifted over the top of the cold air and forms clouds. This often results in heavy rain or snowstorms.

a)

Occluded front

b)

Warm Front

c)

Cold Front

d)

Stationary Front

35.

What atmospheric layer contains high temperatures due to the absorption of the sun's rays?

a)

Troposphere

b)

Thermosphere

c)

Mesosphere

d)

Stratosphere

36.

What atmospheric layer closest to Earth's surface; contains 90% of the atmosphere's total mass; all weather occurs here.

a)

Mesosphere

b)

Stratosphere

c)

troposphere

d)

exosphere

37.

What layer of the atmosphere is the coldest layer; located above the stratosphere.

a)

Troposphere

b)

thermosphere

c)

mesosphere

d)

stratosphere

38.

____ is the layer above the troposphere that contains ozone.

a)

exosphere

b)

mesosphere

c)

stratosphere

d)

thermosphere

39.

What is the outermost layer of the atmosphere; contains almost no air molecules.

a)

Stratosphere

b)

troposphere

c)

exosphere

d)

thermosphere

40.

_____ is the land area that supplies water to a river system.

a)

Divide

b)

Watershed

c)

Alluvial Fan

d)

Flood Plain

41.

_____ is a long ridge formed by deposits of sediments alongside a river channel.

a)

Levee

b)

Runoff

c)

Flood Plain

d)

Reservoir

42.

_____ is the process by which nutrients in a lake build up over time, causing an increase in the growth of algae

a)

Delta

b)

Drainage Basin

c)

Eutrophication

d)

Tributary

43.

_____ is a ridge of land that separates the drainage basin or watershed from another.

a)

Watershed

b)

Alluvial Fan

c)

Wetland

d)

Divide

44.

____ is a natural or artificial lake that stores water for human use.

a)

Delta

b)

Watershed

c)

Resrvoir

d)

Levee

45.

____ is an area of land that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year.

a)

Flood Plain

b)

Wetland

c)

Reservoir

d)

Marsh

46.

____ is a stream that flows into a large stream.

a)

Divide

b)

Tributary

c)

Flood Plain

d)

Alluvial Fan

47.

_____ is the land area from which a river and its tributaries collect their water.

a)

Drainage Basin

b)

Runoff

c)

Tributary

d)

Resevoir

48.

______ is a broad, flat valley through which a river flows.

a)

Runoff

b)

Alluvial Fan

c)

Flood Plain

d)

Divide

49.

____ is water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground.

a)

Alluvial Fan

b)

Drainage Basin

c)

Runoff

d)

Tributarys

50.

____ is a wide, sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain range.

a)

Alluvial Fan

b)

Reservoir

c)

Levee

d)

Tributary