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6th Grade Science Final

Total questions: 86

Worksheet time: 44mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is Mass?

a)

How large an object is.

b)

How heavy an object is.

c)

How light an object is.

d)

The amount of matter inside an object.

2.

What is Volume?

a)

How full something is.

b)

An empty object

c)

The amount of space an object takes up.

d)

The weight of an object.

3.

What is the formula for a regular shaped object?

a)

Density

b)

M x V x H

c)

Marking the water line on a cylinder.

d)

L x W x H

4.

How do you determine the volume of a pebble?

a)

Dropping a pebble into water.

b)

Submerge it in a cylinder partly filled with water. Calculate the increase in the level of water.

c)

Measuring all of the sides of the pebble.

d)

L x W x H

5.

What is Density?

a)

How long a material is.

b)

How heavy a material is.

c)

How tightly a material is packed together.

d)

The mass of the object.

6.

What is the formula for density.

a)

Density is cool.

b)

Volume times Mass

c)

L x W x H

d)

Mass Divided by Volume

7.

Convert 2.4 mm into cm.

a)

24.0

b)

24

c)

2.4

d)

.24

8.

Convert 36.7 cm into mm

a)

367

b)

3.67

c)

.367

d)

.36

9.

What is the largest unit of length?

a)

inch

b)

cm

c)

Kilo

d)

mm

10.

How is a Kilo represented?

a)

km, kl, kg

b)

kk, km, gram

c)

kim

d)

km, kf, kl

11.

Kilo means...

a)

10,000

b)

10

c)

1,000

d)

100

12.

What is a meniscus?

a)

a kilogram

b)

the dip in a liquid

c)

a dip in solid

d)

a gas leake

13.

What is a force?

a)

how unbalanced something is

b)

how strong something is

c)

push or pull

d)

how balanced something is

14.

What is a difference between balanced and unbalanced forces?

a)

balanced is force. unbalanced is motion.

b)

balanced is equal. unbalanced is not equal.

c)

balanced is better than unblanaced

d)

balanced is not equal. unbalanced is equal

15.

What is gravity?

a)

A push or pull.

b)

Friction in motion.

c)

A strong force pulling you down.

d)

A force that stops you.

16.

What is friction?

a)

A strong force pulling you down.

b)

A force that stops you.

c)

Push and Pull.

d)

Strong force.

17.

Is friction good, bad, or both?

a)

Mom is cool

b)

Bad: like on ice.

c)

Both: It can be good with brakes or bad on ice.

d)

Good: It can stop you in a dangerous situation.

18.

How do you increase friction?

a)

Making the surface rough.

b)

Pressing the surfaces harder agains each other.

c)

Increasing normal force.

d)

Removing lubrication between the surfaces in contact.

19.

How do you decrease friction?

a)

using air resistance.

b)

Using lubricants like oil or grease.

c)

Polishing a surface

d)

a vacuum.

20.

What is air resistance?

a)

The force on an object moving in air, flowing in the opposite direction.

Resistance pushing.

b)

How quickly an object moves through the air.

c)

An object in air.

d)

a vacuum

21.

What is a vacuum?

a)

time travel

b)

force and motion

c)

A space without matter or air?

d)

resistance pushing

22.

What is motion?

a)

objects in motion

b)

A force pushing us forward.

c)

A force pulling us.

d)

distance x time

23.

What is speed?

a)

Objects continue what they are doing.

b)

the rate at which an object is changing position in any direction.

c)

fast moving

d)

A Lamborghini

24.

What is the formula for speed?

a)

L x H x W

b)

distance x time

c)

distance divided by time.

d)

time x speed

25.

What is Newtons first law of motion?

a)

Objects at rest continue at rest, objects in motion continue in motion.

b)

Fig Newtons are the best cookie.

c)

Objects are a force pushing us forward.

d)

Objects cover distance.

26.

What is Newtons second law of motion?

a)

Acceleration = mass x force

b)

Mass = force x acceleration

c)

Force = mass + acceleration

d)

Force = mass x acceleration

27.

What is Newtons third law of motion?

a)

For every action there is a small reaction.

b)

For every action there is a an action.

c)

For every action there is an equal opposite reaction.

d)

Action = force.

28.

What is energy?

a)

Potential to do you best.

b)

The ability to build up kinetic motion

c)

The ability to do work

d)

The ability to do homework

29.

What is Kinetic energy.

a)

energy

b)

the ability to do work

c)

The motion of an object.

d)

Storing up potential energy.

30.

What is potential energy.

a)

the ability to reaction to force.

b)

energy stored in an object.

c)

motion.

d)

the ability to do work

31.

When does energy change from one form to another?

a)

When an object is mechanical.

b)

when an object is in use.

c)

when an object is chemical.

d)

when an object is at rest.

32.

What is the Law of Conservation Energy?

a)

Energy can be created or destroyed.

b)

Energy can be destroyed.

c)

Energy can be created.

d)

Energy can not be created or destroyed.

33.

What is work?

a)

The transfer of force into energy acting on an object.

b)

studying for finals.

c)

The transfer of energy by a force acting on an object.

d)

energy in motion

34.

What is the formula for work?

a)

force x distance

b)

force + distrance

c)

force x motion

d)

force + motion

35.

What is a Joule?

a)

force and distance.

b)

a shiny rock

c)

Work done with a formula

d)

Work done by a force of one newton causing a displacement of one meter.

36.

What two units could you use when doing work?

a)

power and motion

b)

newton

meter

c)

two joules

d)

two newton meters

37.

What is power?

a)

newton meters

b)

work

c)

the rate of doing work

d)

working hard

38.

What three units would you use when figuring how much power has been used?

a)

joules

newtons

motion

b)

fig newtons

meters

c)

Joule

Newton

Meter

39.

What is heat?

a)

the rate of energy moving.

b)

Warm and cold regions

c)

particles moving in time and space.

d)

The energy of particles moving from warmer to colder regions.

40.

Fill in the blank: Temperature is the measure of the ______ energy of the particles in a sample of matter.

a)

thermal

b)

heat

c)

kinetic

d)

potential

41.

The temperature at which a liquid turns to ice.

a)

freezing

b)

melting

c)

evaporation

42.

The temperature at which a solid turns to a liquid is called

a)

evaporation

b)

melting

c)

freezing

43.

The temperature at which a liquid turns to a gas is called

a)

freezing

b)

melting

c)

evaporation

44.

What is conduction?

a)

the transfer of energy

b)

the transfer of heat

c)

the transfer of evaporation

d)

the transfer of motion

45.

Which is an example of conduction

a)

touching a hot stove top

b)

cooling off in a pool

c)

burning your feet on hot sand

d)

taking a walk

46.

Which are examples of conductors?

a)

cloth

cardboard

b)

metal

copper

steel

c)

fabric

water

47.

Which are examples of insulators?

a)

nonmetal objects like fabric and cardboard

b)

metal objects like steel and iron

48.

What is convection?

a)

the transfer of knowledge

b)

the transfer of energy

c)

the transfer of heat by movement

d)

the transfer of convection

49.

What is radiation?

a)

the transfer of nonmetal objects

b)

The transfer of heat by movement

c)

the transfer of energy

d)

the transfer of power

50.

Which is an example of convection?

a)

moving cloth through a boiling pot of tarter sauce

b)

the runs rays

c)

moving metal through a boiling pot

51.

Which is an example of radiation?

a)

a hot beach

b)

boiling water

c)

the suns rays

52.

What happens to the amount of energy as you go from a gas to a solid?

a)

They stay the same

b)

The become more spread out

c)

The become closer together

53.

What are two types of mechanical waves?

a)

longitude and latitude

b)

longitudinal and transverse

c)

transverse and amplitude

d)

crest and trough

54.

A longitudinal wave is a

a)

waving hello

b)

ocean wave

c)

mechanical wave

d)

sound wave

55.

What is light?

a)

illumination

b)

makes vision possible

c)

longitudinal wave

d)

sound wave

56.

What type of mechanical wave is a light wave?

a)

mechanic

b)

ocean

c)

transverse

d)

longitudinal

57.

What is a luminous object?

a)

light wave

b)

object that gives light

c)

object that gives power

58.

What is an illuminated object?

a)

object that reflects light

b)

object that gives light

c)

transverse wave

59.

What is opaque?

a)

material that you can see light through

b)

material that lets some light in

c)

material that blocks light

d)

light

60.

What is translucent?

a)

material that lets some light in

b)

material that blocks light

c)

material that you can see light through

61.

What is transparent?

a)

material that you can see light through

b)

material that blocks light

c)

material that lets some light in

62.

What are the colors in the visible spectrum in order

a)

red

orange

yellow

green

blue

purple

b)

purple

blue

green

yellow

orange

red

c)

orange

blue

green

yellow

purple

red

63.

Which travels faster light or sound?

a)

light

b)

sound

64.

What is subatomic?

a)

a nucleus

b)

big parts of an atom

c)

smaller parts of an atom

d)

an atom

65.

What is found in a nucleus- the center of an atom?

a)

subatomic atoms

b)

the core

c)

protons and neutrons

66.

What is a proton?

a)

atom with a neutral charge

b)

atom with a positive charge

c)

atom with a negative charge

67.

What is a neutron?

a)

atom with a positive charge

b)

atom with a negative charge

c)

atom with a neutral charge

68.

What is an electron?

a)

atom with a neutral charge

b)

atom with a positive charge

c)

atom with a negative charge

69.

True or False: Cardboard is a good insulator for electricity.

(electricity can not flow through it)

a)

False

b)

True

70.

True False: metal is a good conductor for electricity?

(electricity CAN flow through it)

a)

True

b)

False

71.

When thinking of a magnet, which poles would attract one another?

a)

positive to positive and negative to negative

b)

positive to negative

c)

negative to positive

72.

What are the four states of matter?

a)

solid

b)

liquid

c)

plasma

d)

gas

73.

What is a physical change?

a)

a change

b)

a change you can not see

c)

a hidden change

d)

a change you can see

74.

A red apple rots and turns brown is an example of what kind of change?

a)

solid change

b)

Chemical change

(chemical reaction)

c)

physical change

d)

liquid change

75.

What is the difference between a group and a period?

a)

A group is on the side and a period is not.

b)

A group is a set

c)

A period is an end

d)

A group is better than a period.

76.

Where would you find a metal on the periodic table?

a)

left

b)

right

c)

middle

d)

bottom

77.

Where would you find a nonmetal on the Periodic Table?

a)

left

b)

right

c)

bottom

d)

top

78.

Where would you find a halogen on the Periodic table?

a)

Group 15

b)

Group 17

c)

Top

d)

bottom

79.

Where would you find a noble gas on the Periodic table?

a)

top

b)

right

c)

left

d)

bottom

80.

What is a compound?

a)

a mix of elements

b)

a mix of properties

c)

a mis of emotions

81.

What is a mixture?

a)

combining two compounds

b)

a mix

c)

something on the periodic table.

82.

What is the difference between a subscript and a coefficient?

a)

The big number to the small one

b)

The arrow means a change is happenning

c)

yield

d)

small numbers

83.

How do you determins the number of elements and atoms in a compound such as H2O?

a)

2 hydrogen

1 oxygen

b)

2 hydrogen

2 oxygen

c)

2 hydrogen

3 oxygen

84.

What do the arrow and plus sign mean in a chemical equation?

a)

arrow means change happening

plus means yield

b)

arrow means yield

plus means change happening

c)

arrow and plus

85.

What is physical science?

a)

The study of physics

b)

the study of science properties

c)

the study of atoms

d)

the study of changes

86.

Chemistry is the study of

a)

elements

b)

properties

c)

changes

d)

atoms