5th Grade Science

Seasonal change in the direction of the prevailing, or strongest, winds of a region.

The data shown below is either quantitative or qualitative.

Which of the data shown is quantitative?

Type the words that describe its quantitative data below.

It is the infrastructure that conveys sewage or surface runoff using sewers.

An animal that gets it's energy by only eating plants.

• herbivore
• omnivore
• decomposer
• carnivore

Any organism that CANNOT make its own food internally...it has to eat or ingest other organisms.

• scavenger

• consumer

• decomposer

• producer

Which type of ecosystem can be found in the mountain region of North Carolina?

• estuary

• grassland

• deciduous forest

• tropical rainforest

Some facts about a bird called the Painted Redstart are listed in the box shown below. Which fact best describes one way this bird changes its environment to meet its needs?

• Fact 1

• Fact 2

• Fact 3

• Fact 4

Which of the following could increase the amount of oxygen in the air?

• Building more houses

• Paving more streets

• Burning more oil

• Planting more trees

A student use a spring scale to pull a 50-gram block horizontally across a wood desk. Then the student pulls the block the same distance across surfaces of carpet, sandpaper, and glass.

Which question is this investigation most likely designed to answer?

• How do blocks of different sizes react to force?

• How do different surfaces affect the amount of force needed to move a block?

• How do blocks affect spring scales?

• How does the mass of a block change when it is pulled across a desk?

What is the best explanation for a decrease in a population of wolves in an area? *

• the amount of food decreases

• the amount of space increases

• the amount of food increases

• the amount of competition decreases