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Worksheets6th Grade Science SOL Review
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
What is the 4 planet from the sun?
Mars
Mercury
Earth
Neptune
What does the earth rotate on?
Axis
Rotation
Revolution
Middle
What season is after winter?
Spring
Summer
Fall
Second Winter
_____ is the movement of a planet around the sun.
Revolution
Rotation
Orbit
Comet
____ is where all space programs in the US are operated from here.
Mephis
LA
NASA
Washington D.C
____ is a small body that circles the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Light Year
Satellite
Comet
Asteroid
____ is the turning of a planet on its axis.
Revolution
Rotation
orbit
Circles
_____ is a big ball of dirty ice and snow in space.
Asteroid
Meteorite
Comet
Planet
______ is the attraction that one object has for another due to gravity.
Orbit
Gravitational Pull
Axis
Rotation
_____ is a small body or moon orbiting a planet.
Comet
Asteroid
Satellite
NASA
_____ is the approximate distance from the sun to Earth.
Light year
Astronomical Unit
1 mile
1 Kilometer
_____ is the distance light can travel in one year.
Astronomical Unit
Light Year
Mile
300 miles
_____ is an imaginary line that passes from pole to pole through the center of a planet.
Axis
Line
Middle
Gravitational Pull
What are the inner planets?
Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Mercury, Earth, Mars
Mercury and Venus
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
What are the outer planets?
Pluto
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Mars, Jupiter, Uranus
Which of the following is a renewable resource?
Biomass
Coal
Propane
Uranium
Which of the following is a non-renewable resource?
Hydropower
Biomass
Geothermal
Propane
_________ are resources that can be replenished in a short time.
non-renewable resources
renewable resources
Recyclables
Plastic
Warm air _____.
Rises
Sinks
_____ is water in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from the clouds onto the Earth's surface.
Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
Runoff
_____ is the process by which clouds form as water vapor cools and changes into liquid water droplets.
Infiltration
Runoff
Transpiration
Condensation
____ is how water soaks down into the ground.
Runoff
Infiltration
Evaporation
Transpiration
_____ is the water that flows across land and into streams, rivers, or oceans.
Runoff
Rivers
Infiltration
Transpiration
_____ is the process by which water on Earth's surface changes form liquid to water vapor.
Transpiration
Evaporation
Infiltration
Precipitation
________ is evaporation of water into the atmosphere from the leaves and stems of plants.
Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
Transpiration
What are the 3 states of water in the water cycle?
Ice, water, steam
solid, liquid, gas
hot, cold, warm
What are the 2 states of water in precipitation?
Solid, liquid
steam, vapor
rain, snow
What causes the shape of the clouds?
Water
Wind
People
Goats
Clouds are formed by the ______ of water.
Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
Snow
Which types of clouds are associated with rain?
Stratus
Cumulus
Cirrus
Which type of cloud is associated with fair weather?
Stratus
Cirrus
Cumulus
Which type of coulds signals the approach of a change of weather?
Cirrus
Cumulus
Stratus
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.
Occluded Front
Cold front
Warm Front
Stationary Front
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.
Occluded front
Warm Front
Cold Front
Stationary Front
What atmospheric layer contains high temperatures due to the absorption of the sun's rays?
Troposphere
Thermosphere
Mesosphere
Stratosphere
What atmospheric layer closest to Earth's surface; contains 90% of the atmosphere's total mass; all weather occurs here.
Mesosphere
Stratosphere
troposphere
exosphere
What layer of the atmosphere is the coldest layer; located above the stratosphere.
Troposphere
thermosphere
mesosphere
stratosphere
____ is the layer above the troposphere that contains ozone.
exosphere
mesosphere
stratosphere
thermosphere
What is the outermost layer of the atmosphere; contains almost no air molecules.
Stratosphere
troposphere
exosphere
thermosphere
_____ is the land area that supplies water to a river system.
Divide
Watershed
Alluvial Fan
Flood Plain
_____ is a long ridge formed by deposits of sediments alongside a river channel.
Levee
Runoff
Flood Plain
Reservoir
_____ is the process by which nutrients in a lake build up over time, causing an increase in the growth of algae
Delta
Drainage Basin
Eutrophication
Tributary
_____ is a ridge of land that separates the drainage basin or watershed from another.
Watershed
Alluvial Fan
Wetland
Divide
____ is a natural or artificial lake that stores water for human use.
Delta
Watershed
Resrvoir
Levee
____ is an area of land that is covered with a shallow layer of water during some or all of the year.
Flood Plain
Wetland
Reservoir
Marsh
____ is a stream that flows into a large stream.
Divide
Tributary
Flood Plain
Alluvial Fan
_____ is the land area from which a river and its tributaries collect their water.
Drainage Basin
Runoff
Tributary
Resevoir
______ is a broad, flat valley through which a river flows.
Runoff
Alluvial Fan
Flood Plain
Divide
____ is water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground.
Alluvial Fan
Drainage Basin
Runoff
Tributarys
____ is a wide, sloping deposit of sediment formed where a stream leaves a mountain range.
Alluvial Fan
Reservoir
Levee
Tributary
