Q3, W2 Science Spiral Review

Match each term with its definition.

• openings in plant leaves

• chlorophyll

• absorbs light & makes plants green

• carbon dioxide

• one of the basic needs of plants

• oxygen

• gas plants give off in photosynthesis

• water

• gas plants take in to make their food

• stomata

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4.LS2.1

Which structure produces food for a plant?

• stem

• root

• stomata

• leaf

• flower

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4.LS2.1

In early morning, you set up a picnic under the shade of a tree. At noon, there is very little shade by the tree. By dinnertime, you must move your picnic to the opposite side of the tree to stay in the shade. Why does this happen?

• A. The tree is too small to provide shade.

• B. Earth is rotating on its axis.

• C. The angle of the sun changes throughout the day.

• both B and C

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4.ESS1.2

Which member of the food web is NOT a consumer?

• badger

• monarch caterpillar

• grasshopper

• sea holly

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4.LS2.3

The monarch caterpillar gets its energy from the ______.

• milkweed

• ground squirrel

• prairie vole

• badger

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4.LS2.3

When is your shadow the longest?

• A. at noon

• B. just after sunrise

• C. just before sunset

• both B and C

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4.ESS1.2

Match each word with its definition.

• sediment is dropped to a low surface

• deposition

• pieces of earth are broken apart

• weathering

• pieces of earth are moved away

• erosion

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4.ESS2.1

Weathering and erosion continually change Earth's surface by ___________.

• polluting the air and water with harmful chemicals

• sending the roots of trees and other plants deep into rock and soil

• breaking down rock and carrying it from one place to another

• trees dropping their leaves in the fall

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4.ESS1.1

Which statement is true?

• Earthquakes and volcanoes occur in a pattern.

• Earthquakes and volcanoes occur along the boundaries between plates.

• Earthquakes and volcanoes occur in many of the same areas.

• all of these

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4.ESS2.2

Name the layer of Earth that each letter represents.

• inner core

• D

• crust

• B

• outer core

• A

• mantle

• C

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4.ESS2.4