Frilled sharks and angler fish live far beneath the surface of the ocean, which is why they are known as

Choices:
A. Deep sea animals
B. fish
C. Long Sea Fish
D. Far Sea Animals

Answer: A


Gas can fill any container it is given, and liquid

Choices:
A. is standard weight and size
B. is the opposite of variable
C. only needs a few
D. uses what it needs

Matter in the liquid phase has definite volume

Answer: D


When birds migrate south for the winter, they do it because

Choices:
A. they are genetically called to
B. their children ask for them to
C. it is important to their happiness
D. they decide to each year

Answer: A


If a person walks in the opposite direction of a compass arrow they are walking

Choices:
A. west
B. north
C. east
D. south

a compass is a kind of tool for determining direction by pointing north

Answer: D


An example of lots kinetic energy would be

Choices:
A. Drinking a cold glass of water
B. A snail moving across the sidewalk
C. sitting without moving anywhere
D. An aircraft taking a trip

as an object moves , the kinetic energy of that object will increase

Answer: D


Choices:
A. mammal
B. plant
C. fish
D. protozoa

a single-cell organism cannot specialize

Answer: D


A person can grow cabbage in January with the help of what product?

Choices:
A. Green house
B. Parliment
C. Congress
D. White house

a greenhouse is used to protect plants from the cold

Answer: A


A frog, in winter, will burrow itself into soft mud, until it freezes, then in the spring

Choices:
A. it melts, because it is warm-blooded
B. it unfreezes, because it is cold-blooded
C. it remains frozen until it dies
D. it dies, because it is warm-blooded

Answer: B


Choices:
A. It attracts all metals
B. It is a sphere
C. It is red and purple
D. It holds 500 mL of water

the volume of an object can be used to describe the size of that object

Answer: D


A body may find its temperature to be lowered after

Choices:
A. water is heated up
B. fluid spreads from pores
C. the air becomes arid
D. the sky stays bright

Answer: B


If a person enjoys long, sunny days their favorite month would be

Choices:
A. October
B. July
C. April
D. March

the amount of daylight is greatest in the summer

Answer: B


Choices:
A. Deleting case files on the computer
B. Touching evidence without gloves
C. speaking with a witness
D. Throwing documents in the trash

An example of collecting data is measuring

Answer: C


Choices:
A. claw
B. house
C. shell
D. bone

An example of hunting is an otter cracking open clams with a rock

Answer: C


Oil is a nonrenewable resource which tells us that when

Choices:
A. it can be remade
B. it can be found in other places
C. there is an endless supply
D. the final barrel is gone, there supply is finished

Answer: D


Choices:
A. particles of iron
B. Loads of leaves
C. Soda
D. Silly Putty

Answer: A


Choices:
A. carbon dioxide
B. warm air
C. H2O haze
D. oxygen

dew is formed when water vapor condenses over night

Answer: C


The Earth revolving around the sun can cause

Choices:
A. constellations to appear in one place in spring and another in fall
B. the stars to rotate diagonally in the sky
C. earth's axis to be widened
D. stars to fade as winter approaches

the Earth revolving around the sun causes stars to appear in different areas in the sky at different times of year

Answer: A


Choices:
A. love
B. glucose
C. reading
D. driving

darkness has a negative impact on photosynthesis

Answer: B


Choices:
A. lead to less impacted soil
B. pact down soil to make it denser
C. firm up the ground
D. help prevent the effects of erosion

Answer: A


A fire starts in a wide, open field and catches onto a forest. The fire started even though people were far away from the woods. A potential cause for the start of it could have been

Choices:
A. wind
B. sand
C. stones
D. storms

Answer: D


To have a positive impact of the environment

Choices:
A. use Styrofoam plates and bowls
B. use more paper towels
C. salvage plastic bottles instead of throwing them away
D. drive a car that guzzles gas

recycling has a positive impact on the environment

Answer: C


Choices:
A. water shortages for the local environment
B. increased energy consumption by the water heater
C. an empty water heater
D. less energy used by the water heater

as time spent taking a shower decreases , water used will decrease

Answer: D


Choices:
A. only chickens can cross the road
B. people driving cars might be unaware the animal is close by
C. road signs are hard to read
D. cops will stop them for speeding

if an animal is near a road then that animal might be killed by a car

Answer: B


Choices:
A. light that changes color
B. light from our closest star
C. the reflection of something shiny
D. light reflected from our orbiting rock

a plant requires sunlight for photosynthesis

Answer: B


Choices:
A. the sun is brightest
B. the sun is eclipsed
C. the moon is full
D. the darkness is greatest

the amount of daylight is least on the winter solstice

Answer: D


Choices:
A. Kool-Aid
B. Cotton
C. Paper towel
D. Hair

boiling is when liquids are heated above their boiling point

Answer: A


When vapor condenses overnight it often ends up on

Choices:
A. bees
B. clothing
C. rosebuds
D. people

Answer: C


Which is a good source of nutrients for a mushroom?

Choices:
A. a trotting horse
B. a roaring lion
C. a cut peony
D. a flying eagle

dead organisms are the source of nutrients for decomposers

Answer: C


which of these animal's habitat is peat likely to be found?

Choices:
A. a dog's habitat
B. a cat's habitat
C. a human's habitat
D. an alligator's habitat

peat is made of decaying vegetation compacted by soil in a swamp over a long period of time

Answer: D


A strawberry is in zero way a true berry because it

Choices:
A. has seeds outside the flesh, unlike the blueberry
B. is unable to spread its seed
C. is a different color than other berries
D. is too wet inside

Answer: A


Choices:
A. is the largest organ and also the body's first defense against germs
B. is used the second largest organ and used for breathing by humans
C. soaks in toxins in the air
D. repels sunlight and UV rays

skin is used for protecting the body from harmful substances

Answer: A


Choices:
A. eat gar
B. eat only foliage
C. have live births
D. are warm-blooded

Answer: A


Choices:
A. severe oxygen depletion in the atmosphere
B. layers of the ozone disintegrating
C. midterm exams for math class
D. solution overflowing from a beaker

chemical splashing sometimes occurs during experiments

Answer: D


Frogs are unable to give live birth, and their eggs are soft, unlike other eggs, in fact

Choices:
A. frog eggs are sour
B. frog eggs are transparent
C. frog eggs are yellow
D. frog eggs are hollow

Answer: B


A woman wants to figure out what renewable resources she can use in order to be more environmentally friendly and sufficient. She decides to use all of these resources that are renewable, with the exception of the one nonrenewable, which is

Choices:
A. sunlight
B. aluminium
C. wood
D. water

Answer: B


Choices:
A. after the caterpillar stage
B. after the chrysalis stage
C. after the eggs are laid
D. after the cocoon emerging stage

the cocoons being created occurs during the the pupa stage in a life cycle

Answer: A


Choices:
A. Arctic Circle
B. Sumatra
C. Java
D. tropical rainforest

cold temperatures cause animals to shiver

Answer: A


Choices:
A. stream
B. cactus
C. dry bed
D. canyon

as dryness increases in an environment , the available water in that environment will decrease

Answer: A


Why can an Owl retain it's body temperature during the winter?

Choices:
A. It's neither
B. It's both
C. It's cold blooded
D. It's warm blooded

Answer: D


What is the source of energy for physical cycles on Earth?

Choices:
A. clouds that are heavy with rain
B. a thinner ozone layer
C. a medium-sized star which our planet orbits
D. heat from stars at night

the sun is the source of energy for physical cycles on Earth

Answer: C


Pasteurization reduces the amount of bacteria in

Choices:
A. green tea
B. cheddar cheese
C. orange juice
D. almond milk

pasteurization reduces the amount of bacteria in milk

Answer: B


A person is trapped in a cabin while it storms outside. The person knows it is storming because of

Choices:
A. the precipitation
B. the sun
C. the sea
D. the stars

Answer: A


Which would best store new whale offspring?

Choices:
A. large egg carton
B. large aquarium
C. bag
D. mud hole

Answer: B


All the deer in one area moved away. This could be because

Choices:
A. They wanted to go to Disneyland
B. The deer went for a walk and got lost
C. all the trees had died from disease and fell down
D. They wanted to live where there were move wolves to keep them company

habitat destruction causes animals to move to find shelter in another habitat

Answer: C


An herbivore like a giraffe will only consume

Choices:
A. green matter
B. sticks
C. algae
D. cheese

Answer: A


Climate change has sped up dramatically because

Choices:
A. CO2 production has accelerated
B. a rapid decline the production of carbon dioxide
C. oxygen levels have spiked
D. Fe has been present in an overabundance

carbon dioxide concentrations in the air have increased over the last decade dramatically

Answer: A


What is most necessary for a  bitcoin operation

Choices:
A. abacus
B. metal
C. plastic
D. wood

Answer: B


If something is outside during the day what will it receive?

Choices:
A. food
B. sunbeams
C. energy
D. water

if something is outside during the day then that something will receive sunlight

Answer: B


A turtle may lay six eggs, and a sea turtle may lay a hundred eggs, and

Choices:
A. turtles will hatch more
B. sea turtles will hatch more
C. animals can lay eggs
D. turtles are warm blooded

as the number of eggs laid by an animal increases , the number of eggs that hatch will increase

Answer: B


Choices:
A. they build their homes from them
B. they use them to keep warm
C. to have nourishment thru the cold months
D. because they like the aesthetic

if an animal relies on plants for food then that animal must store enough food to last through the winter

Answer: C


Plant growth may be positively affected by

Choices:
A. extra rainfall
B. freezing temperatures
C. increase in pests
D. long droughts

as the amount of water received by a plant increases , that plant will usually grow

Answer: A


An electric car uses less gasoline than a regular car because

Choices:
A. parts of the engine are flawed
B. gas is unable to be used
C. electricity is more expensive
D. power is prioritized over gas

an electric car uses less gasoline than a regular car

Answer: D


Choices:
A. Earth orbits the moon
B. Mars orbits the sun
C. the sun orbits the Earth
D. the Earth's moon orbits Mars

a revolution is when something revolves around something else

Answer: B


An organism's requirements and its survival rate have what kind of relationship?

Choices:
A. indirect
B. direct
C. inverse
D. reverse

the increase of something required by an organism has a positive impact on that organism 's survival

Answer: B


Choices:
A. animals
B. plants
C. rocks
D. air

Answer: B


Were the situation to be that all zebra were sterile,

Choices:
A. zebra would be endangered
B. zebra would be overpopulated
C. zebra would have babies
D. zebra would die out

if all members of a species cannot produce offspring then that species will likely become extinct

Answer: D


An example of a seasonal change that a furry animal might adopt could be similar to:

Choices:
A. A pumpkin growing seeds internally
B. A store setting up their Christmas displays
C. A man looking for breakfast after many hours without food
D. humans pulling out their heavy outerwear

An example of a seasonal change is an animal growing thick fur for keeping warm in the winter

Answer: D


What could be used as an electrical conductor

Choices:
A. A penny
B. Shoe laces
C. Wood
D. A button

Answer: A


How does ice wedging cause rocks to crack?

Choices:
A. releasing gas
B. melting down
C. being cold
D. growth in openings

ice wedging is when ice causes rocks to crack by expanding in openings

Answer: D


Choices:
A. layers of leaves and pebbles form a pile
B. layers of sand are washed up on a beach
C. dirt builds up in the outdoors
D. various types of dirt accumulate over something eventually

fossils are formed when layers of sediment cover the remains of organisms over time

Answer: D


When going in the basement, it's better to have a laser than a

Choices:
A. flashlight
B. light bulb
C. radio
D. TV

Answer: C


Some areas are known for experiencing all four seasons, and winter is one of those seasons. During said season, one may partake in activities such as

Choices:
A. swimming
B. leaf peeping
C. sledding
D. surfing

snow falls during the winter in some environments

Answer: C


What can show that loss of resources has a negative impact on the organisms in an area?

Choices:
A. lakes dry up and fish species are less varied
B. when prey is overhunted, predators die
C. deer need plenty of space to live
D. sharks need to eat a lot of fish in order to survive

loss of resources has a negative impact on the organisms in an area

Answer: B


What vehicle would you use to travel on the majority of the surface of the planet on which we live?

Choices:
A. Bike
B. Boat
C. Train
D. Car

oceans cover 70% of the surface of the earth

Answer: B


A bear's fur and duck's feathers both help the animal survive by

Choices:
A. providing water
B. providing food
C. providing warmth
D. providing oxygen

Answer: C


Choices:
A. Christmas
B. Presidents day
C. Independence Day
D. Halloween

as the amount of daylight increases , sunset will occur later in the day

Answer: C


If a species population increases in the birth rate has

Choices:
A. ceased
B. boomed
C. stalled
D. fallen

if members of a species are born then the population of that species increases

Answer: B


What's an example of the idea that if one mineral can scratch another mineral then that other mineral is softer than that one mineral?

Choices:
A. diamonds can be smashed by rocks
B. diamond cuts into glass
C. steel is harder than stone
D. diamonds are harder than diamonds

if one mineral can scratch another mineral then that other mineral is softer than that one mineral

Answer: B


Choices:
A. bricks
B. grease
C. cars
D. dirt

Answer: B


If a farmland up the hill gets rainfall, what could happen to lower lands?

Choices:
A. all of these
B. they could get fertilizer washed to them
C. they could experience unfavorable chemical change in their lands
D. they could have their lands poisoned

runoff contains fertilizer from cropland

Answer: A


In order for a journal to be produced, it first requires

Choices:
A. matter which is typically written on
B. an incredible amount of fame
C. enough money to buy a house
D. lucky text written on trees

creating paper requires cutting down trees

Answer: A


What is an example of a raw material being something that comes directly from a source?

Choices:
A. cats from a shelter
B. birds from a nest
C. manure from a field
D. salt water from the ocean

if something is a raw material then that something comes directly from a source

Answer: D


Choices:
A. air
B. soil
C. tree
D. bird

a producer is a source of sugar in an ecosystem

Answer: C


A mark of adulthood common in most species is

Choices:
A. paying bills
B. reproduction
C. fighting
D. death

Answer: B


Bill decided the wolf was a predator after he saw it eat the

Choices:
A. apple
B. grass
C. bunny
D. pie

if an animal eats another animal then that animal is a carnivore or omnivore or predator

Answer: C


Choices:
A. mantle
B. center
C. crust
D. inner core

Answer: B


What core ingredient of red pasta sauce comes from a flower?

Choices:
A. Tomato
B. Bell Pepper
C. Oregano
D. Onion

Answer: A


If something were to be melted, it would be heated above its melting point, like

Choices:
A. putting peas in a soup
B. putting jello in warm water
C. putting ice in the freezer
D. cooking up cookie dough

melting is when solids are heated above their melting point

Answer: B


carbon dioxide plays the same role in plants that oxygen plays in animals

Choices:
A. this is accurate
B. all of these
C. maybe true
D. this is untrue

In the photosynthesis process carbon dioxide has the role of raw material

Answer: A


As far as plants go, considering their growth, it is unlikely that they would do well in

Choices:
A. a large patio setting
B. a humid, open greenhouse
C. a damp patch of earth
D. a basement without windows

darkness has a negative impact on photosynthesis

Answer: D


What is likely to be the most direct result of offshore oil leaking?

Choices:
A. oil pollutes cities
B. oil harms ocean life
C. oil ruins farmland
D. oil harms forests

offshore oil platforms might cause oil to leak into the water

Answer: B


Choices:
A. recycling and using gasoline
B. recycling and using natural gas
C. recycling and using solar
D. recycling and using coal

An example of conservation is not using fossil fuel

Answer: C


Which is the slowest to move through water?

Choices:
A. swan
B. duck
C. robin
D. goose

webbed feet are used for moving faster through water by aquatic animals

Answer: C


Bats have many quirks, with the exception of

Choices:
A. using echolocation
B. laying eggs
C. hanging upside down
D. eating bugs

Answer: B


Organic food is currently considered best for people because

Choices:
A. they avoid using bug killers when grown
B. they have more vitamins
C. they use pesticide when growing
D. they are higher in fiber

eating food that contains pesticides can have a negative impact on humans

Answer: A


A horse eats some hay, an apple and a sugar cube, then peacefully roams a field after eating while digesting the meal. During this time

Choices:
A. the horse throws up
B. the food is deconstructed
C. the horse is hungry
D. the food is poisoned

the breaking down of food into simple substances occurs in the digestive system

Answer: B


Choices:
A. a night owl
B. an party animal
C. a heavy sleeper
D. a workaholic

Answer: C


When you get farther from water, the water vapor in the air will ______.

Choices:
A. increase
B. decrease
C. condense
D. form clouds

as distance from water decreases , humidity will increase

Answer: B


Choices:
A. when a creature adjusts the shape and color of its body to appear as something else
B. when a rabbit hides in a patch of grass
C. when a cat presses its body flat to the ground to hide
D. when a fish swims with a large group of fish to hide itself

An example of camouflage is when something changes color in order to have the same color as its environment

Answer: A


Choices:
A. turkeys
B. tomatoes
C. cows
D. chickens

Answer: B


As they are immobile, what is an example of how animal life helps the reproduction cycle of plants?

Choices:
A. squirrels dropping seeds
B. birds building nests
C. human lumber industry
D. bugs eating leaves

In the tree reproduction process a squirrel has the role of seed disperser

Answer: A


Choices:
A. reproduce asexually
B. create a progeny
C. produce spores
D. find mates

Answer: B


Choices:
A. warmth
B. velocity
C. height
D. plants

Answer: B


Choices:
A. bog
B. ocean
C. land
D. marsh

Answer: B


The circulatory system brings oxygen to the body from where?

Choices:
A. The chest
B. The brain
C. The feet
D. The stomach

the circulatory system brings oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body

Answer: A


Choices:
A. petroleum
B. plastic rulers
C. notebook paper
D. Styrofoam plates

Answer: C


Which relationship involves inheritance?

Choices:
A. teacher-student
B. mother-daughter
C. grandmother-grandfather
D. friends

inheriting is when a inherited characteristic is copied from parent to offspring by DNA

Answer: B


Choices:
A. jacuzzi
B. pool
C. chair
D. umbrella

Answer: A


A car engine usually uses combustion to convert this into a motion and heat.

Choices:
A. animal products
B. plant materials
C. oil products
D. solar energy

a car engine usually converts gasoline into motion and heat through combustion

Answer: C


When turned on, which product cannot convert electrical energy into light energy?

Choices:
A. chandelier
B. charger
C. floor lamp
D. Christmas tree lights

a light bulb converts electrical energy into light energy when it is turned on

Answer: B


A pelican is hungry, so decides to try to catch some fish. In order to do this, the pelican will

Choices:
A. use the back of its head
B. use the bottom of its stomach
C. use the front of its face
D. use the back of its tail

a beak is used for catching prey by some birds

Answer: C


A magnetic effect could pull two rocks together if they're

Choices:
A. lacking magnetic properties and far apart
B. shaped similarly and touching
C. lacking magnetic properties and touching
D. both magnetic and at any distance

magnetism does not require contact between objects to act

Answer: D


Choices:
A. concrete walls
B. fake diamonds
C. Christmas ornaments
D. a tree

objects made of glass cause refraction of light

Answer: B


A man is trying to describe a single vat of juice he has. He needs the best way to tell his friend about the object, so he says

Choices:
A. 20 meters of juice
B. 20 vats of juice
C. 20 ounces of juice
D. 20 feet of juice

the volume of an object can be used to describe the size of that object

Answer: C


plant life is completely dependent on what?

Choices:
A. buying some good food
B. creating self sustenance food
C. food given to it
D. food at the store

Answer: B


Choices:
A. properly heat hamburgers and steaks
B. thaw chicken on uncovered counter tops
C. eat raw cookie dough
D. hamburger meat should stay pink

cooking food to proper temperatures protects against food poisoning by killing bacteria and viruses

Answer: A


An island can sprout up from seemingly suddenly because

Choices:
A. underwater volcanoes are invisible
B. underwater volcanoes are hidden
C. lava is hot enough to burn
D. volcanoes have a lot of magma

new land can be formed by volcanoes erupting by lava cooling

Answer: B


Choices:
A. heats up by at least 10 degrees
B. undergoes a change opposite to compressor
C. takes up less space
D. breaks into little pieces

Answer: B


Where might you find the substance used to make the shiny metallic foil paper used in cooking?

Choices:
A. Clouds
B. Rocks
C. Wood
D. Leaves

Answer: B


What increases the number of pollinators a flower will attract?

Choices:
A. The amount of petals
B. The amount of of fragrance the flower has
C. The height of the stem
D. The amount of leaves on the stem

as the amount of fragrance of a flower increases , the number of pollinators it will attract increases

Answer: B


Choices:
A. vegetable oil
B. greek yogurt
C. gumdrops
D. bottled water

Answer: B


Chloroplasts exist in plants and can be located by knowing where

Choices:
A. how many petals most plants have
B. food is stored in plants
C. the greenest part of a plant is
D. if a plant has a thick stem

most chloroplasts are found in the leaves of a plant

Answer: C


Choices:
A. the star from which scorpions get their name
B. the planet named after the Roman god of sea
C. the largest star in the galaxy
D. the hottest star in the galaxy

the sun transfers heat energy from itself to the planets through sunlight

Answer: B


Choices:
A. steam
B. air
C. oxygen
D. carbon

swimming is when humans can move in water

Answer: A


What can keep you moisturized other than water?

Choices:
A. Crackers
B. Sour Cream
C. cucumbers
D. Cheese

Answer: C


Which of these items can a human move by pedal power?

Choices:
A. unicycle
B. canoe
C. car
D. sled

Answer: A


It takes the Earth one year to go around the sun. It takes the moon how long to make one revolution around our planet?

Choices:
A. 2 months
B. 30 days
C. 2 years
D. a decade

a revolution of the moon around the Earth takes 1 month

Answer: B


Choices:
A. will hate any birds with rounded beaks
B. may chow down on different grub than birds with rounded beaks
C. will eat the exact same diet as all other birds
D. may have more trouble eating than other birds

birds with beaks of different shapes eat different foods

Answer: B


What might be the natural habitat of a small creature known for making a noise by scraping limbs together?

Choices:
A. Among Birches
B. Amid the snow
C. In a barn
D. In the ocean

Answer: A


Choices:
A. stars
B. moon
C. the ocean
D. sun

Answer: B


Choices:
A. a person's hair growing
B. a wooded area appearing on land that was once part of the ocean
C. a wooded area existing next to an ocean
D. the moon moving around the Earth

An example of a change in the Earth is an ocean becoming a wooded area

Answer: B


Some vapor is condensing now because it has less

Choices:
A. gas
B. heat
C. water
D. steam

water vapor cooling causes that water vapor to condense

Answer: B


Herbivores contribute to the same type of plants they eat when:

Choices:
A. they drink
B. they eat  animals
C. they trample them
D. they die

an organism is a source of organic matter

Answer: D


What converts electrical energy into light energy in a light bulb?

Choices:
A. the light switch
B. the glass bulb
C. the metal filament
D. none

Answer: C


A person wants to turn on their fan to cool down their room. In order to do this, they will have to

Choices:
A. plug it in
B. spin a wire
C. make some noise
D. turn it off

an electrical device requires electricity to turn on

Answer: A


A river can disappear over a period of time?

Choices:
A. this is uncertain
B. this is sure
C. all of these
D. maybe

if a body of water loses all water then that body of water does not exist any more

Answer: B


A temperature in the negatives during the night got slightly less negative during the day, which means it got more

Choices:
A. cold
B. positive
C. negative
D. unpredictable

decreasing something negative has a positive impact on a thing

Answer: B


Choices:
A. homo sapiens and frogs
B. people and jungle monkeys
C. homo sapiens and deer
D. deer and Bengal tigers

Answer: C


Choices:
A. a way to gain some warmth by combustion
B. warming up by sunlight
C. slowly heating to a boiling point
D. burning a high fever

natural gas is a source of heat by burning

Answer: A


Choices:
A. can make dead organisms rise anew like a phoenix
B. is a process completed by predators
C. can act as a fertilizer for wild flowers
D. is extremely detrimental to the surrounding flora

decomposition increases the amount of nutrients in the soil

Answer: C


Choices:
A. makes car steering wheels hard to handle in the summer
B. means your pets need sweaters when outdoors
C. causes ice to refreeze
D. cools down the water in local ponds

Answer: A


Science fact: a cavern is formed by carbonic acid in groundwater seeping through rock and dissolving

Choices:
A. sedimentary rock which is  composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs,
B. metamorphic rocks that are formed under the surface of the earth from the metamorphosis,
C. igneous rocks which are formed when magma  cools and hardens or
D. artist who play the music genre called rock and roll.

a cavern is formed by carbonic acid in groundwater seeping through rock and dissolving limestone

Answer: A


Choices:
A. to look for people
B. less food in the wilderness
C. because coyotes chased them
D. they have become confused

if a habitat can no longer support animals then those animals will move to another area

Answer: B


the hourly totals of sunshine are directly connect to

Choices:
A. tides
B. seasons
C. altitude
D. weather

when the season changes , the amount of daylight will change

Answer: B


Choices:
A. attach themselves to boats like barnacles
B. act as a support system during a shark's reproduction cycle
C. are exclusively kelp and seaweed eaters
D. act as a clean up crew for a shark's crumbs

remora fish eat food by attaching themselves to sharks and eating the food left behind

Answer: D


A plant root growing into rock cracks is an example of what?

Choices:
A. boiling
B. warm weather
C. evaporation
D. abrasion

An example of weathering is when a plant root grows into a crack in rock

Answer: D


What does the earth orbit that causes the seasons to change?

Choices:
A. plasma star
B. venus
C. mercury
D. pluto

Earth orbiting the Sun causes seasons to change

Answer: A


There are metals which will always point north such as

Choices:
A. Fe
B. nickel
C. gold
D. silver

Answer: A


A white environment is likely to be found

Choices:
A. in a forest
B. on a mountain
C. in a desert
D. in the ocean

cold environments are usually white in color from being covered in snow

Answer: B


One step in creating an alternative fuel is

Choices:
A. coal miners looking for coal
B. gold being sifted from dirt
C. growing crops of corn
D. drilling for fossil fuels

An example of creating an alternative fuel is turning plant material into fuel

Answer: C


So many environments receive large amounts of rain, though an exception is

Choices:
A. the Sahara
B. the great plains
C. the rain-forest
D. Seattle

Answer: A


Taking a fingernail and pressing it to salt will show

Choices:
A. it is dry
B. it is wet
C. it is malleable
D. it is salty

if a mineral can be scratched by a fingernail then that mineral is soft

Answer: C


Choices:
A. to get the cat some milk
B. to avoid becoming lunch
C. to avoid paying its debt
D. all of these

Answer: B


A golden eagle will hunt using its talons to collect

Choices:
A. groupers
B. berries
C. bears
D. humans

Answer: A


which of these would most likely reject a really nice burger?

Choices:
A. a hungry student who loves burgers
B. a woman visiting a fast food joint
C. a teacher on his lunch break
D. a potted plant in the office

if an organism makes food for itself then that organism does not need to eat other organisms

Answer: D


The Grand Canyon was formed by the Colorado river by what?

Choices:
A. horses pulling carts directing the water
B. the passage of time
C. humans making great efforts
D. the addition of dams

the Grand Canyon was formed by the Colorado River flowing over long periods of time

Answer: B


Choices:
A. causes stars to die out
B. causes the moon to loss gravitational pull
C. causes Orion to seemingly change position in the sky
D. causes the Sun to rotate

the Earth rotating on its axis causes stars to appear to move across the sky at night

Answer: C


The next moon phase after a solar eclipse is

Choices:
A. first quarter
B. full moon
C. third quarter
D. super moon

a solar eclipse could only happen during the new moon

Answer: A


If someone is dying of thirst, they can hydrate by

Choices:
A. drink acid
B. visiting a valley
C. find snow
D. catching rain

Answer: D


Choices:
A. clay pots
B. roofing nails
C. paper plates
D. plastic cutlery

Answer: B


Of the following household items, which is recyclable?

Choices:
A. cooking oil
B. banana peel
C. paint
D. soda can

Answer: D


If a lot of people have forgotten about a product, the amount of money made by the person selling it will be

Choices:
A. much higher
B. unchanged
C. rising slowly
D. lower than before

as the sale of a product decreases , the amount of money made by the person selling that product will decrease

Answer: D


Choices:
A. A car
B. Hogwarts
C. A unicorn
D. remedies

a forest environment receives more rainfall than a desert

Answer: D


Choices:
A. seeds
B. bears
C. humans
D. whales

Answer: A


Choices:
A. feet
B. rock
C. water
D. sand

Answer: C


What is the largest organ of the human body?

Choices:
A. kidneys
B. the heart
C. epidermis
D. liver

the skin is the largest organ in the human body

Answer: C


Choices:
A. trees
B. ingestors
C. blood
D. water

Answer: B


What becomes smoother through weathering?

Choices:
A. rainbow
B. water
C. cat
D. pumice

Answer: D


The element that heats toast is an example of:

Choices:
A. a semi-conductor?
B. a thermal insulator
C. a poor conductor
D. a thermal conductor

a thermal conductor is made of materials that conduct thermal energy

Answer: D


Choices:
A. sleet and hail
B. ice cubes
C. rain
D. glaciers

Answer: A


Choices:
A. daddy
B. the embryo's creator
C. strangers
D. male siblings

Answer: B


The insect's cocoon being created occurs during the

Choices:
A. adult stage in a life cycle
B. egg formation in a life cycle
C. stage when wings first start to form
D. final stage in a life cycle

the cocoons being created occurs during the the pupa stage in a life cycle

Answer: C


Choices:
A. element Al
B. books
C. wind
D. fire

Answer: A


What happens to a cat's fur in the summer?

Choices:
A. The fur becomes darker
B. The fur becomes more dense
C. It becomes less dense
D. It stays the same density

when an animal sheds its fur , its fur becomes less dense

Answer: C


Choices:
A. ocean
B. snow
C. groundwater
D. ice caps

evaporation is when water is drawn back up into the air in the water cycle

Answer: B


A magnet will stick to which of the following?

Choices:
A. indium
B. diamond
C. wood
D. hydrochloric acid

if a magnet is attracted to a metal then that magnet will stick to that metal

Answer: A


Hypothermia will set in under which conditions:

Choices:
A. while exposed to harsh winds in a polar region
B. while stranded deep in a swap
C. while swimming in tropical seas.
D. while exposed to direct sunlight on a tropical island

if a living thing becomes too cold then that living thing will die

Answer: A


A black wall reflects little light, a pink wall reflects pink light a while wall

Choices:
A. bounces little light
B. bounces all light
C. bounces blue light
D. bounces red light

a white object reflects all visible light

Answer: B


Choices:
A. photosynthesis
B. audio feedback
C. hydro-erosion
D. Cloudy conditions

Answer: C


What do octopuses release to blind predators?

Choices:
A. meat
B. water
C. dark pigment
D. plants

octopuses releasing ink into the water causes predators to have difficulty seeing the octopus

Answer: C


Which decreases visibility while driving?

Choices:
A. opening the sunroof
B. spraying windshield fluid
C. adjusting side mirrors.
D. turning on headlights

a decrease in visibility while driving can cause people to crash their car

Answer: B


Choices:
A. ships
B. space mass
C. people
D. plants

Answer: B


What would be used to measure the substance which historically the Dutch and other farmers used to power the blades on the structure which moves water from low to highlands?

Choices:
A. anemometer
B. magnetometer
C. manometer
D. thermometer

an anemometer is used to measure wind speed

Answer: A


What is it called when h20 falls from a fluffy object to land on the top of cloth suspended on a rod?

Choices:
A. mechanization
B. evaporation
C. precipitation
D. transpiration

precipitation is when rain fall from clouds to the Earth

Answer: C


Choices:
A. shark
B. Loriciferans
C. platypus
D. Turtle

Answer: B


An inherited characteristic present in a baby is

Choices:
A. number of ears
B. birth date
C. birth weight
D. number of siblings

the number of body parts of an organism is an inherited characteristic

Answer: A


if your shoe changes form at a certain heat level, what can that be described as?

Choices:
A. none of these
B. the liquid content of the shoe
C. the melting range of that item
D. the visual design of the shoe

melting point means temperature at which a solid melts

Answer: C


Which would be the product of a solid that was brought above its melting point?

Choices:
A. water turning into ice
B. iron turning to rust
C. tadpoles turning into frogs
D. glacier turning into water

melting is when solids are heated above their melting point

Answer: D


A beaver is going to experience a long winter in the upcoming months. The beaver knows that the weather is changing, so it begins to eat more and more food, knowing that it can survive meager months by being

Choices:
A. overweight
B. weighted
C. underweight
D. starved

an animal can survive in an environment with little food by storing fat

Answer: A


Lighting a candle will cause the candle to

Choices:
A. combust
B. petrify
C. float
D. yell

lighting a candle causes that candle to burn

Answer: A


Choices:
A. are only necessary for immuno-comprised people
B. help prevent outbreaks of once dormant diseases
C. provide little protection against diseases
D. are unimportant and under researched

Answer: B


Jim wanted baby chickens so he gathered eggs and used a

Choices:
A. lamp
B. ice cube
C. refrigerator
D. snow

Answer: A


Nerves are used to feel what on the skin?

Choices:
A. creativity
B. stares
C. emotions
D. coldness

nerves can be used to feel heat and pressure on the skin

Answer: D


Substances may be combined by the pouring of one into another, for example when

Choices:
A. filling up a tub
B. putting a lemon in water
C. adding grenadine to soda
D. putting food in a bowl

An example of combining two substances is pouring one substance into the other substance

Answer: C


Choices:
A. technology that uses electromagnetic induction
B. technology that collects electromagnetic radiation
C. technology that picks up sound in space
D. technology that transforms kinetic energy

Answer: B


Sugar may increase the sweetness of a dish such as in

Choices:
A. lasagna
B. corn
C. fettuccine
D. churros

Answer: D


A person could get in trouble for doing what in a protected environment?

Choices:
A. volunteering
B. hunting
C. studying the environment
D. working

An example of protecting the environment is creating protected areas

Answer: B


A winter storm is ravaging a city, so weather advisories are put out to the public. However, a man still need to get to work on time, so he takes his car on the highway. While driving, he discovers

Choices:
A. the roads are clear
B. it is difficult to see
C. the car is very hot
D. the streets are empty

bad weather decreases visibility while driving

Answer: B


The southern and northern hemisphere's seasons are opposite each other, so when the northern hemisphere is having it's longest day, it's the southern hemisphere's

Choices:
A. winter solstice
B. fall equinox
C. summer solstice
D. spring equinox

the winter solstice is on June 21st in the southern hemisphere

Answer: A


Choices:
A. a daffodil to absorb rays of Sol
B. a torrential amount of rainfall
C. a bee to pollinate the bud
D. a tree to absorb argon

a leaf absorbs sunlight to perform photosynthesis

Answer: A


which of these would disturb a standing body of water?

Choices:
A. a boat setting sail
B. an insect flying hundred feet above
C. a rock tossed in
D. A and B above

dropping an object into water causes vibrations in the water

Answer: D


Choices:
A. six years
B. four years
C. five years
D. two years

a new season occurs once per three months

Answer: A


We are trying to use air as sources of energy because there is an infinite amount of it, same with water. These are two examples of

Choices:
A. Coal sources
B. Fossil Fuels
C. Limited resources
D. Renewable resources

Answer: D


Choices:
A. fiberglass
B. soda can
C. Styrofoam food container
D. motor oil

Answer: B


If two blocks have unequal mass, which will speed up the most with a common force applied

Choices:
A. neither move
B. The heavier
C. equal
D. The lighter

force causes the speed of an object to increase

Answer: D


Choices:
A. geckos
B. catfish
C. sea weed
D. river otters

Answer: C


Choices:
A. a rose with tiny leaves
B. a daisy with thin, short leaves
C. a peony with wide, smooth leaves
D. a daffodil with curled leaves

as flatness of a leaf increases , the amount of sunlight that leaf can absorb will increase

Answer: C


Some fish species, when hunting, will lurk in the shallowest portions of water and actually leave the water in order to capture prey. These fish are able to hunt in this fashion after years of

Choices:
A. training in a school
B. adapting to their needs
C. adapting to new music
D. wishing for it to work

adaptation is when an organism develops a trait over time for survival

Answer: B


if a person had one of these, they could live permanently under water

Choices:
A. a very long nose
B. two hands and two legs
C. a very big mouth
D. a gill for extracting gases

gills are used for breathing water by aquatic animals

Answer: D


Choices:
A. an increase in water temperature
B. an uptick in local ponds fish supply
C. an increase in issues from drought conditions
D. an uptick in local ponds water level

storms cause bodies of water to increase amount of water they contain

Answer: D


What is the ultimate source of greeting cards?

Choices:
A. deserts
B. waterfalls
C. forests
D. canyons

creating paper requires cutting down trees

Answer: C


Which animal is known to have many learned behaviors?

Choices:
A. sea park dolphins
B. saltwater crocodiles
C. aquarium fish
D. plains buffaloes

if an animal is trained to do something then that something is a learned behavior

Answer: A


The stars in the night sky make a yearly

Choices:
A. donation
B. resolve
C. restructuring
D. revolution

a revolution is when something revolves around something else

Answer: D


A predator such as a hawk may kill prey by

Choices:
A. batting with a paw
B. clutching in its talons
C. using a strong wing
D. eating a rat's claw

claws are used to catch prey by some predators

Answer: B


What is it called when a cell converts oxygen and carbohydrates into carbon dioxide, water, and energy?

Choices:
A. adaptation
B. breathing
C. food transformation
D. catabolic reactions

cellular respiration is when a cell converts from oxygen and carbohydrates into carbon dioxide, water, and energy

Answer: D


A plant stem contains a system of tubes for transporting water and nutrients to

Choices:
A. the sun
B. the hive mind
C. its neighbors
D. itself

a plant stem contains a system of tubes for transporting water and nutrients to other parts of the plant

Answer: D


What is an example of a change in the Earth?

Choices:
A. an expanse of water turning to forested land
B. a duck living in the woods
C. a forest growing larger
D. a river flowing strongly

An example of a change in the Earth is an ocean becoming a wooded area

Answer: A


when it turns day and night on a planet, what cause this?

Choices:
A. the sun goes to take a rest in a different place
B. the world itself spins, causing it
C. the moon causes this to happen
D. the planet puts off the lights

a planet rotating causes cycles of day and night on that planet

Answer: B


Environments which are forested are often green; what is an example of this?

Choices:
A. a thriving jungle canopy
B. a dry, sandy desert
C. a snowy icy glacier
D. a cold, empty mountaintop

a forest environment is often green in color

Answer: A


Why might a person fall asleep after being lost in a forest on a freezing cold day?

Choices:
A. energy levels decrease
B. energy levels increase
C. They live there
D. A big meal.

extreme temperatures cause an organism 's energy levels to decrease

Answer: A


Choices:
A. dirt
B. rocks
C. Ohio State
D. crops

Answer: D


What does a tuna have that causes it to swim faster than a seahorse?

Choices:
A. Lower body temperature
B. Bigger scales
C. Bigger fins
D. Thicker caudal fin

large fins can be used to move quickly through water

Answer: C


Choices:
A. mild smells
B. strong personalities
C. weak scents
D. strong aromas

as the amount of fragrance of a flower increases , the number of pollinators it will attract increases

Answer: D


Leaves play an important role in photosynthesis by being

Choices:
A. a receptacle for solar energy
B. a receptacle for oxygen
C. a release point for carbon dioxide
D. a go between for the exchange of information

a leaf absorbs sunlight to perform photosynthesis

Answer: A


A man wants to create a room that he can light up with the flick of a switch. To do this, he sends some electricity into a completed electrical circuit, through a conductor, which allows

Choices:
A. light from the sun to shine
B. lights to be burned out
C. sunlight to shine through bulbs
D. his plan to succeed

sending electricity through a conductor causes electricity to flow through that conductor

Answer: D


The inventor of pasteurization also worked on

Choices:
A. vaccinations
B. telephones
C. automobiles
D. electricity

Answer: A


Choices:
A. citrus
B. bananas
C. apples
D. strawberries

dissolving a substance in water causes the water to taste like that substance

Answer: A


During seasonal changes, like from summer to fall, what is a common noted change?

Choices:
A. evenings are much brighter
B. new leaves begin to grow
C. stars are seen more easily at night
D. the sun begins to set earlier

when the seasons change from the summer to the fall , the amount of daylight will decrease

Answer: D


Choices:
A. if the wasp is flying about unimpeded
B. if a person grabs the wasp
C. if a person ignores the wasp
D. if a wasp is hanging out in it's nest

Answer: B


The basic outside of our planet is comprised of

Choices:
A. types of stone
B. frozen green grass
C. solid ice balls
D. molten hot lava

Answer: A


A bird would find nest making materials in a

Choices:
A. building
B. pond
C. cave
D. tree

Answer: D


Canyons are rock formations with cliffs that

Choices:
A. take a long time to produce
B. have sharks in the water
C. are very narrow and shallow
D. are billions of years old

a canyon forming occurs over a period of millions of years

Answer: A


What is the best example of a live birth?

Choices:
A. a fish laying a clutch
B. a platypus warming an egg with its furry body until a baby is born
C. a bird warming the eggs in her nest until they hatch
D. a koala delivering into her pouch

live birth means developing inside the mother instead of an egg

Answer: D


Which of these would need the fewest hydrocarbon chains containing eight carbon atoms?

Choices:
A. electric car
B. turbocharged car
C. gasoline car
D. antique car

an electric car uses less gasoline than a regular car

Answer: A


Skunks are an animal which has a stink sack, which means that

Choices:
A. it is unable to smell
B. it births live young
C. other creatures avoid it
D. it is a predator

Answer: C


Choices:
A. crime is on the rise in the cities
B. a rain puddle is suddenly gone
C. the polar ice caps are spreading
D. the Earth is turning into a dirt ball

if a liquid disappears then that liquid probably evaporated

Answer: B


If farmers want larger chicken populations

Choices:
A. they should reduce the rooster population
B. they should decrease the number of hens
C. they should encourage predation
D. they should research methods that increase laying

as the number of eggs laid by an animal increases , the number of eggs that hatch will increase

Answer: D


A factory is producing various items. If the factory wants to produce something that will itself produce little pollution, it could create

Choices:
A. trucks
B. windmills
C. ships
D. cars

Answer: B


What source of power can be used up completely?

Choices:
A. Water
B. wind
C. sunlight
D. natural gas

Answer: D


Choices:
A. Pant
B. Drink tea
C. Sleep
D. Eat ice

panting is when an animal hangs its tongue out of its mouth to adjust to hot temperatures

Answer: A


in science, what is a cause and effect guess called?

Choices:
A. a final solution
B. an academic hypothesis
C. a wild guess
D. a big problem

hypothesis means scientific guess about the cause and effect of an event

Answer: B


Choices:
A. causes healing of clefts in rocks
B. smaller rocks to fill in large cracks
C. makes rocks more secure
D. causes fissures in rocks to enlarge

cycles of freezing and thawing water cause ice wedging

Answer: D


A device may locate the northern portion of a forest through

Choices:
A. Fe pulls
B. series of attractions
C. large robots
D. metal conductors

natural magnetism is used for pointing north by a compass

Answer: A


A sound that is made by an animal with two legs is

Choices:
A. oink
B. meow
C. moo
D. cluck

Answer: D


Choices:
A. they just appear
B. they are gifted
C. they are bought
D. they are earned

Answer: D


Life sustaining substances are required for

Choices:
A. air
B. zebras
C. plastic
D. the sun

an animal requires nutrients for survival

Answer: B


Creatures such as opossums and raccoons are scavengers, meaning that they get their food from various sources, wherever and however they can, even from trash cans. This can negatively impact the creature's health if

Choices:
A. the food is warm
B. the food is past its prime
C. the food is yummy
D. the food is fresh

food spoiling has a negative impact on the health of the animal that eats that food

Answer: B


A few weeks after the month of December in the heart of Australia is often referred to as?

Choices:
A. winter
B. springtime
C. summer
D. Halloween

January is during the winter in the northern hemisphere

Answer: C


What is an instance of carnivores only eating animals?

Choices:
A. a mouse eating a cricket
B. a dog devouring a piece of cheese
C. tyrannosaurus rex devouring a pterodactyl
D. a cat eating grass outdoors

Answer: C


Choices:
A. burning
B. sinking
C. burying
D. going green

An example of conservation is avoiding waste

Answer: D


Choices:
A. vitamin k
B. vitamin c
C. vitamin D meals
D. human vitamins

Answer: C


Choices:
A. a circuit board
B. a light bulb
C. a brick wall
D. a wire

Answer: C


Hitting the keys of a piano is like playing

Choices:
A. a lute
B. a broadcast
C. a concert
D. a recital

An example of playing a musical instrument is hitting the keys of a piano

Answer: A


Seeds can be dispersed through all sorts of creative ways, such as

Choices:
A. a person orders flowers from a florist
B. a man looks at a bed of flowers
C. a dog sneezes in a field and disrupts the air around plants
D. a man asks his dog if it wants some flowers

seed dispersal is when the seeds of a plant are moved from the plant to a new environment

Answer: C


At a meal one plate seems to be larger than the other plates.  That plate is

Choices:
A. plate in a kitchen cabinet
B. plate on the kitchen counter
C. the person sitting next to you's plate
D. a person at the other side of the table's plate

as distance from an object decreases , that object will appear larger

Answer: C


This can be used to light up a light bulb

Choices:
A. grass
B. dirt
C. stones.
D. biofuel

biofuel is used to produce electricity by burning

Answer: D


When did the pond have less heat energy?

Choices:
A. when people sat by it
B. when people skated on it
C. when people fished in it
D. when people swam in it

freezing means changing from a liquid into a solid by reducing heat energy

Answer: B


In the springtime, animals engage in ritual behavior such as

Choices:
A. creating bedding for young
B. picking flowers for mates
C. hunting for new prey
D. migrating to cold environments

Answer: A


Recently, a lot of people, en masse, were told that they should take an opportunity to cast an image of an object through a pinhole onto a screen, in order to best enjoy an activity. This was because

Choices:
A. scientists are lacking fun
B. eclipses are best to look at directly
C. science tells us eclipses are scary
D. avoiding looking directly at an eclipse is important

casting an image of an object through a pinhole onto a screen does not require looking directly at the object

Answer: D


how can one alter plants without interacting directly with it?

Choices:
A. do a rain dance
B. all of these
C. leave it as it is
D. change its current habitat

changes in an environment cause plants to adapt to survive

Answer: D


Choices:
A. a substance used to keep drinks cold
B. snow and manmade materials
C. small crystals of salt
D. phosphates and other chemicals

Answer: A


Choices:
A. allow a bird to fly faster
B. allow a bird to forage in trashcans for food
C. allow a bird to hunt for food in wide spaces
D. allow a bird to hunt for food in tight spaces

a skinny beak is used for obtaining food by a bird from small spaces

Answer: D


Choices:
A. is lacking in any benefits to an organism
B. is unable to infect any organisms
C. can be beneficial and detrimental to an organism's health
D. is always harmful to an organism

Answer: C


in which of these environments would one ideally situate a farm?

Choices:
A. in the middle of the desert
B. none of these
C. in the rocky mountains
D. over on the grassland

a grassland environment receives more rainfall than a desert

Answer: D


Telephones will transfer acoustics using what energy

Choices:
A. gamma radiation
B. heat transfer
C. electron flow
D. light pulses

telephones convert sound energy into electrical energy

Answer: C


Choices:
A. Play dough
B. Bricks
C. Bones
D. Carrots

if a flexible container is pushed on then that container will change shape

Answer: A


which one of these methods can a potential prey use to escape attack?

Choices:
A. making sounds like a known larger animal
B. presenting itself to its predator
C. none of these
D. salting itself to be more palatable

mimicry is used for avoiding predators by animals by camouflaging as a dangerous animal

Answer: A


okra has to have water, sun and what to grow

Choices:
A. planter
B. music
C. Earth
D. shade

Answer: C


A lake, pond, or stream can all be used to

Choices:
A. collect fluid from
B. make extra food
C. rain water down
D. create new houses

Answer: A


On a particularly hot day, a young woman clicks on a fan in the room, and the blades of the fan begin to quietly rotate in a circular motion, which

Choices:
A. heats up the surrounding air
B. rustles the air around it
C. pulls dust into a vacuum
D. blasts cold air outdoors

the vanes rotating in an electric fan causes air to move

Answer: B


Windy means what is going at high speeds?

Choices:
A. water
B. gales
C. cars
D. dirt

Answer: B


What is an example of weathering occurring over several years?

Choices:
A. a stone becoming smoother
B. wood becoming rotten over time
C. a cabin being shut down for the season
D. a tree becoming taller

weathering usually occurs over a period of many years

Answer: A


As the amount of fragrance of a flower increases, the better chances it has at

Choices:
A. growing
B. dying
C. reproducing
D. looking pretty

as the amount of fragrance of a flower increases , the number of pollinators it will attract increases

Answer: C


Food digestion in humans can be aided by

Choices:
A. microorganisms that have cell walls but lack organelles
B. hundreds of white blood cells
C. amoebas in the blood supply
D. carbon dioxide from the respiration process

Answer: A


Which would a scavenger most likely eat?

Choices:
A. a swimming fish
B. a nesting bird
C. run over deer
D. a skulking hyena

Answer: C


Efforts to preserve the ecosystem might lead national parks to

Choices:
A. encourage hunting
B. promote logging
C. ban fishing
D. encourage new species

Answer: C


The thermal production of a stove is generically used for

Choices:
A. warming food
B. heating homes
C. producing food
D. cooling pets

a stove generates heat for cooking usually

Answer: A


Which requires respiration to use energy?

Choices:
A. solar collector
B. car
C. skunk
D. oil well

living things require respiration to use energy

Answer: C


When a insect looks like another type of entity what is it called?

Choices:
A. six legs
B. spider eggs
C. birds of prey
D. facade

An example of camouflage is an organism looking like leaves

Answer: D


Nerves are used in order to sense which things?

Choices:
A. the sound and sadness of a baby's cry
B. the smell of dirty trash
C. the warmth and touch of a kiss on the cheek
D. the warming feeling of being told you are loved

nerves can be used to feel heat and pressure on the skin

Answer: C


The gravitational pull of the sun causes what phenomenon?

Choices:
A. planetary revolution
B. creation of moons
C. creation of rings
D. planetary cooling

Answer: A


We looked at the arrow on the compass and then turned around and walked in the opposite direction.  We were walking

Choices:
A. south
B. east
C. west
D. north

the floating arrow on a compass always points towards the north

Answer: A


When blood passes thru the primary element of the respiratory system it's diffused with

Choices:
A. the first element on the periodic chart
B. a compound released by the burning of fossil fuels
C. an element released by plants
D. a compound used by plants

Answer: C


When Gia cooked her no-bake cookies too long, she discovered they had become hard, (though un-burnt). what is the most likely reason?

Choices:
A. The sugar had undergone crystallization
B. It was so cold in the room if froze
C. she used too many oats
D. She used old sugar

adding heat to an object sometimes causes chemical reactions

Answer: A


What happens when man moves into new environments?

Choices:
A. native species go wild
B. native species thrive more
C. native species grow large
D. native species loses home

humans moving into an environment usually causes native species to lose their habitats

Answer: D


An example of heat changing the state of matter could be

Choices:
A. jello becoming liquid when placed in a hot pan
B. water becoming warm when heated
C. a bath being more comfortable when it is hot
D. a pool receiving more visitors when warmed

Answer: A


Choices:
A. the help of people
B. the environmental output of plants
C. the same gas needed for photosynthesis
D. a lack of natural resources

an animal requires oxygen for to breathe

Answer: B


What is an example of the appearance of stars seeming to move in relation to the horizon at night?

Choices:
A. constellations may appear higher or lower in the sky depending on the hour
B. constellations may appear to be upside down some nights
C. depending on weather, constellations may be clearly visible at night
D. some stars are unable to be seen on certain nights

stars appear to move relative to the horizon during the night

Answer: A


What month is in the season after spring in the northern hemisphere?

Choices:
A. june
B. november
C. march
D. december

June is during the summer in the northern hemisphere

Answer: A


A man wants to use a material in a project that will be nonrenewable. The man decides to use

Choices:
A. grass
B. solo cups
C. raindrops
D. muddy water

Answer: B


The fish reproduction technique supplies

Choices:
A. coral reefs
B. chunk tuna
C. roe
D. fish sticks

Answer: C


Choices:
A. leaves dew on people
B. forms black ice on bridges
C. forms puddles on roads
D. leaves behind wet foliage

dew is formed when water vapor cools over night

Answer: D


Choices:
A. different types of corn syrup
B. rather large rock formations
C. bees of different sizes
D. sweet stuff sold in grocery stores

Answer: D


what happens when an animals' food intake increases

Choices:
A. it grows taller in size
B. it jogs to burn energy
C. it throws up the excess food
D. the fat transfers into more pounds

as the amount of food an animal eats increases , the weight of that animal will increase

Answer: D


Choices:
A. squirrel
B. squid
C. rhododendron
D. mouse

Answer: C


Decomposition occurs when a decomposer recycles nutrients from dead organisms back to the soil by eating them; what is an example of this?

Choices:
A. flies laying eggs on a body
B. worms devouring a corpse
C. wet leaves denigrating in a pile
D. slugs digging through mulch

decomposition is when a decomposer recycles nutrients from dead organisms to the soil by eating those dead organisms

Answer: B


A full moon and a crescent moon occur normally

Choices:
A. every two fortnights
B. every week
C. yearly
D. every evening

each of the moon 's phases usually occurs once per month

Answer: A


Choices:
A. pulls stars into it's orbit
B. determines when neap and ebb are on Earth
C. keeps objects on Earth grounded
D. forces the sun to orbit around it

the gravitational pull of the Moon on Earth 's oceans causes the tides

Answer: B


Choices:
A. water sources
B. large diamonds
C. rolling grassy hills
D. raised portions

the surface of the Moon contains mountains

Answer: D


Choices:
A. solar rays
B. acid rain
C. pollen
D. fertilizer

chlorophyll is used for absorbing light energy by plants

Answer: A


If something living requires sustenance, it will likely

Choices:
A. seek out a form of nutrients
B. feel like it could eat
C. try to enjoy life
D. gather nutrients for friends

eating food is used to get nutrients by living things

Answer: A


Choices:
A. decide the time is right
B. can breathe a lot of air
C. use what people breathe out to survive
D. take photos of other plants

a plant absorbs carbon dioxide from the air for photosynthesis

Answer: C


Choices:
A. dry up several plants
B. lower energy costs at home
C. recreate effects of the sun
D. give dogs good lighting

a plant light is used for help plants by mimicking sunlight

Answer: C


Choices:
A. the taillights recede into the dark
B. only the bumper is visible
C. the taillights get brighter the further they go
D. the taillights are turned off

as distance from a source of light increases , that source of light will appear dimmer

Answer: A


A large mill in the area has led to streams and rivers being filled with

Choices:
A. rapids
B. boats
C. fish
D. pollutants

Answer: D


What action has a positive impact on the conservation of nonrenewable resources?

Choices:
A. depositing the nonrenewable resources in a landfill
B. waste as much of the resources as possible
C. start a large bonfire with resources
D. turn the nonrenewable into something newly usable

recycling nonrenewable resources has a positive impact on the conservation of those resources

Answer: D


in electricity ceramics are sometimes used to

Choices:
A. increase voltage
B. decrease wattage
C. slow transfers
D. multiply amperage

an electrical insulator slows the transfer of electricity

Answer: C


Choices:
A. April
B. July
C. October
D. January

An example of a seasonal change is an animal growing thick fur for keeping warm in the winter

Answer: D


Choices:
A. deciding what color to paint a room
B. figuring the state of matter of an object
C. formulating the area of a room
D. determining mass of an object

a tape measure is used to measure distance

Answer: C


What happens when someone on top of a bicycle starts pushing it's peddles in a circular motion?

Choices:
A. the bike wheelies
B. the bike turns
C. the bike brakes
D. the bike accelerates

pushing on the pedals of a bike cause that bike to move

Answer: D


If a mosquito dies and is sucked into mud

Choices:
A. it will be eaten
B. it will be disintegrated
C. it will be decayed
D. years later it can still be seen

organisms can be preserved in sedimentary rock

Answer: D


trees have chlorophyll so they make their own

Choices:
A. root structure
B. water
C. scheduled
D. nutrients

if an organism makes food for itself then that organism does not need to eat other organisms

Answer: D


Choices:
A. luck
B. magic
C. snow
D. reflected sound waves

Answer: D


Choices:
A. mountains
B. canyons
C. cities
D. farms

Answer: D


What would you use in an apartment to keep your neighbor below from hearing you shuffle around a room?

Choices:
A. yarn
B. wood
C. carpet
D. tile

Answer: C


if an adult salmon goes back to where it was born, which of these is likely?

Choices:
A. it wants to deposit its offspring
B. it is about to die
C. it is looking for its friend
D. it is searching for its mother

An example of a reproductive behavior is salmon returning to their birthplace to lay their eggs

Answer: A


If the north is cold and the midnorth is warm, there will be

Choices:
A. snow
B. stars
C. air motion
D. fires

uneven heating of the Earth 's surface cause wind

Answer: C


A guy wants to make dinner for his family, so he puts a pan on the stove, adds some meat, and turns on the stove so that heat is being added to the pan. As the meat is warmed through, beginning to sizzle, it is

Choices:
A. being juiced
B. being seared
C. being frozen
D. being smoked

if food is cooked then heat energy is added to that food

Answer: B


Choices:
A. boat
B. volcano
C. coral
D. tree

new land can be formed by volcanoes erupting by lava cooling

Answer: B


It would be harder to grow a palm tree in

Choices:
A. Texas
B. Idaho
C. Arizona
D. South Carolina

a plant requires a specific climate to grow and survive

Answer: B


Choices:
A. builds a cocoon as part of its death ritual
B. needs a chrysalis as part if its life cycle
C. undergoes complete metamorphosis in one day
D. is born with wings

Answer: B


Choices:
A. H2O
B. wood
C. alcohol
D. sand

sugar dissolves in water when they are combined

Answer: A


What time of day does a solar panel work best?

Choices:
A. 9:15 pm
B. 1:45 pm
C. 8 am
D. 5:30 pm

a solar panel converts sunlight into electricity

Answer: B


Sediment built up around the shed due to:

Choices:
A. magic
B. tornado
C. luck.
D. cars

Answer: B


Two gears grinding against each other will raise which of their properties?

Choices:
A. phase
B. temperature
C. taste
D. mass

friction causes the temperature of an object to increase

Answer: B


electrical current does what to a wire to cause it to heat up

Choices:
A. carry it
B. merge with it
C. run from it
D. traverse it

electrical current running through a wire causes that wire to heat up

Answer: D


if the surface of our planet is different after a while, what could have happened?

Choices:
A. the surface eroded on its own
B. all of these
C. there were natural occurrences
D. man has damaged the surface

natural events usually cause changes to Earth 's surface

Answer: B


Choices:
A. wind energy
B. warmth
C. frigid temperatures
D. moonlight

the sun is a source of heat called sunlight

Answer: B


What contributes to prey animals being able to survive predators long enough to mate?

Choices:
A. hiding in bushes
B. eating sweets
C. how they're named.
D. listening to music

avoiding predators has a positive impact on prey 's ability to reproduce

Answer: A


Choices:
A. saplings and flowering seedlings
B. compaction of water and soil
C. compressing of deteriorating foliage
D. floating debris in swamp water

peat is made of decaying vegetation compacted by soil in a swamp over a long period of time

Answer: C


which of these scenarios would result in the ugliest TV screen?

Choices:
A. a bowl of quartz is emptied on it
B. a handkerchief drops on it
C. a bowl of cotton is emptied on it
D. a silk tie falls on it

Answer: A


Choices:
A. Ice will turn to water vapor when it stays under its boiling point
B. Liquid water will turn to ice below its freezing point
C. Ice will turn to liquid water below its freezing point
D. Liquid water will turn to water vapor when the temperature is more than its boiling point

boiling is when liquids are heated above their boiling point

Answer: D


A bear hibernates through cold weather because

Choices:
A. bears get very tired
B. it is gestating young
C. resources are scarce in winter
D. winter is too cold

hibernation is used for conserving resources by some animals

Answer: C


Which shows a way to preserve natural resources:

Choices:
A. run dishwasher full
B. using gasoline engines
C. tossing lawn clippings
D. throwing out aluminum

nature is the source of natural resources

Answer: A


A canyon is created by a strong force such as

Choices:
A. water dripping
B. thunder rusting
C. lightening striking
D. rapids crashing

most canyons are formed by flowing rivers through erosion over long periods of time

Answer: D


Choices:
A. sting
B. poison
C. sense light
D. move

eyes are used for seeing by animals by sensing light

Answer: C


In order to grow a rosebush needs a specific

Choices:
A. gardener
B. house
C. climate
D. fertilizer

Answer: C


From which distance will an object look the biggest?

Choices:
A. 4 feet
B. 30 feet
C. 1 kilometer
D. 1 mile

if an object is close then that object will appear large

Answer: A


Which does not support living things and is not a home to living things?

Choices:
A. carpet
B. field
C. forest
D. grassland

when a habitat can support living things , living things can live in that habitat

Answer: A


The Grand Canyon became so deep and large because

Choices:
A. water sources are there
B. rivers are around it
C. water is really strong
D. rushing water eroded it

the Grand Canyon was formed by the Colorado River flowing over long periods of time

Answer: D


Choices:
A. shift phases
B. become intelligent
C. multiply
D. disappear

Answer: A


A chipmunk that gathers many different items can often store what for later usage and help with plant dispersal.

Choices:
A. hair balls
B. water
C. small leaves
D. uneaten pits

An example of seed dispersal is is an animal gathering seeds

Answer: D


A young boy decides that he likes dogs better than he likes cats. A reason for this may be that

Choices:
A. his dogs are cats
B. his parents only have dogs
C. his parents hate dogs
D. his parents are cats

preferences are generally learned characteristics

Answer: B


A girl is turning sixteen and is experiencing changes to her breasts and other areas as she matures. These changes as she enters adulthood signify

Choices:
A. procreative adjustments
B. cohesive ability
C. coherent reduction
D. reductive properties

Answer: A


When you heat liquids, what happens to it's ability to break down solids?

Choices:
A. nothing significant
B. it enhances it
C. it lessens it
D. it stops

as temperature increases , the ability of that liquid to dissolve solids will increase

Answer: B


If you wanted to be outside in the daylight for the longest period when would be worst?

Choices:
A. June
B. January
C. April
D. August

the amount of daylight is least in the winter

Answer: B


Choices:
A. chicken
B. spider
C. giant squid
D. deer

rocks are a source of shelter for small animals in an environment

Answer: B


What season includes the last month of the year in the southern hemisphere?

Choices:
A. winter
B. summer
C. spring
D. fall

December is during the winter in the northern hemisphere

Answer: B


Choices:
A. leaves objects too frosty to handle
B. makes car hoods cool to the touch
C. leaves surfaces and objects unaffected
D. makes the asphalt scorching to bare feet

absorbing sunlight causes objects to heat

Answer: D


Choices:
A. still afternoon
B. cloudy day
C. rainy day
D. blustery day

an anemometer is used to measure wind speed

Answer: D


What heavenly object is closer to the planet where the TV was invented?

Choices:
A. Jupiter
B. Moon
C. Sun
D. Saturn

the moon is the celestial object that is closest to the Earth

Answer: B


A litter of healthy cubs are born to a lioness, and eventually one of the cubs has a cut on its paw. It is reasonable to assume

Choices:
A. the lioness has a cut paw
B. the cut paw was inherited
C. all cubs will have cut paws
D. the cut paw was acquired

the condition of the parts of an organism are acquired characteristics

Answer: D


careless handling of chemicals can lead to one of the following

Choices:
A. Chemical splashing accidents
B. chemical composition making
C. chemical modifications accidents
D. chemical formation making

chemical splashing sometimes occurs during experiments

Answer: A


Which is a function of the skeletal system?

Choices:
A. Digestion
B. Breathing
C. Thinking
D. Chewing

Answer: D


What season is December in the southern hemisphere?

Choices:
A. when snow starts to fall
B. when the weather gets hot and dry
C. when the flowers start to bloom
D. when the trees change colors

December is during the summer in the southern hemisphere

Answer: B


If someone is allergic to sunlight then the place they need to avoid is

Choices:
A. libraries
B. gazebo
C. buildings
D. underwater

if something is outside during the day then that something will receive sunlight

Answer: B


After spring ends, the next time it will be spring is

Choices:
A. next month
B. next decade
C. next week
D. next year

Answer: D


Choices:
A. BMI
B. CNA
C. DNA
D. XFL

Answer: A


Choices:
A. supplies only the roots with water and nutrients
B. supplies carbon dioxide through the root system
C. acts as the lungs for the plant
D. acts as the subway delivering it's water and nutrient passengers to the rest of the plant

a plant stem contains a system of tubes for transporting water and nutrients to other parts of the plant

Answer: D


In a bowl of water with the sun shining on it, what happens to the water after four hours?

Choices:
A. the water is growing algae
B. there is less water
C. the water is dirty
D. there is more water

evaporation causes amount of water to decrease

Answer: B


A stone may experience the most weathering over

Choices:
A. a week
B. a year
C. a century
D. a decade

weathering usually occurs over a period of many years

Answer: C


Choices:
A. a sea is large
B. the ocean is deep
C. several large rivers meet
D. a river cuts through a canyon

Answer: C


A wooden floor will be easier to slide a chair over than a carpeted floor will be because a wooden floor

Choices:
A. has dry friction
B. has enormous friction
C. has less roughness
D. has more texture

as the roughness of something increases , the friction of that something will increase when its surface moves against another surface

Answer: C


Choices:
A. replicating
B. getting lost
C. falling apart
D. running away

the cell membrane provides support for a cell

Answer: C


A bear that ate a watermelon will also travel during the day to several areas of the surrounding forest, which can cause?

Choices:
A. food for young
B. dispersal of seed
C. bears
D. seed production

seed dispersal is when the seeds of a plant are moved from the plant to a new environment

Answer: B


Choices:
A. act as transporters of nutrients
B. act as transporters of neurons
C. take action against agents of disease
D. defend the body from sunlight

white blood cell destroys pathogens in the body

Answer: C


If a lawnmower runs over an anthill, the colony's population probably

Choices:
A. stagnates
B. increases
C. decreases
D. doubles

harming an animal species causes that animal 's population to decrease

Answer: C


Eating certain foods can add fiber into a diet which helps the body to stay regular, such as when eating

Choices:
A. multivitamins
B. fish
C. crackers
D. broccoli

Answer: D


Some creatures can bring in prey by providing a source of light, such as

Choices:
A. Lophiiformes
B. giant squid
C. sharks
D. crawfish

producing light is used for attracting prey by some deep sea animals

Answer: A


Choices:
A. antigens
B. pathogens
C. organs
D. bone

Answer: B


A celestial body grows a few meters in size every year, and the mass increases as well. After a hundred years, the celestial body will

Choices:
A. repel the sun
B. have stronger gravity
C. attract the sun
D. have weaker gravity

as mass of a celestial body increases , the force of gravity on that planet will increase

Answer: B


Choices:
A. give an estimate of a dog's age
B. measure how long a dog is
C. let you know if the dog needs to lose a few pounds
D. make an educated guess about a dog's breed

Answer: C


Choices:
A. would aid in calculating road time needed to reach a destination
B. would aid in calculating weight of the car
C. would aid in figuring out traffic congestion patterns
D. would aid in using a map

speed is a measure of distance travelled divided by time

Answer: A


The respiratory system allows the body to

Choices:
A. intake carbon dioxide into the blood from the air
B. oxygenate blood from the air
C. combine oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood
D. remove oxygen from the blood

the respiratory system takes in oxygen from the air

Answer: B


All natural resources come from nature such as

Choices:
A. cats coming from shelters
B. cake coming from bakers
C. money coming from the government
D. moisture coming from oceans

nature is the source of natural resources

Answer: D


To burn away the darkness, even a tiny light will do, such as

Choices:
A. a small smile from a friend
B. a little feeling of hope
C. a small voice in the dark
D. a dark wick being touched by a match

a candle is a source of light when it is burned

Answer: D


if a ball on the beach bursts, what would most likely escape?

Choices:
A. the fishes on the shore
B. none of these
C. the sharks in it
D. the gaseous content in it

Answer: D


Choices:
A. carbon dioxide for humans to breathe
B. the chemicals needed to make table salt
C. helium for party balloons
D. a life sustaining element humans need

a leaf absorbs sunlight to perform photosynthesis

Answer: D


A stately red maple in a dense forest is supported by its

Choices:
A. pine needles
B. trunk
C. leaves
D. upward thrust

a trunk is a source of support for a tree

Answer: B


Choices:
A. recycling bins
B. green ways
C. trash heaps
D. natural streams

Answer: C


Choices:
A. coal
B. sunlight
C. oil
D. natural gas

Answer: B


Choices:
A. werewolves
B. moonlight
C. tides
D. orbiting

the moon orbiting the Earth causes the phases of the moon

Answer: D


A man is teaching his daughter to ride a bike. He emphasizes the need for her feet to remain on the pedals, so that

Choices:
A. the bike is fun
B. the bike propels forward
C. the bike hold still
D. the bike is pink

pushing on the pedals of a bike cause that bike to move

Answer: B


Choices:
A. allows loam to replenish its nutrient supply
B. hurts the overall crop reap
C. allows farmers to take a break
D. prevents fertilizer from working

Answer: A


Someday, the ground under the pile of rotting grain in the field will be

Choices:
A. barren
B. a hole
C. more fertile
D. less fertile

decomposition increases amount of organic matter in soil

Answer: C


In what way do mice come into the world?

Choices:
A. by surgical interference by veterinarians
B. through a thick shell
C. through a muscular canal
D. digging upwards through sand

Answer: C


Choices:
A. flavors milk with lemons
B. creates a beverage lemon flavored
C. is mostly water still
D. uses only real lemons

dissolving a substance in water causes the water to taste like that substance

Answer: B


If a road is bumpy and another road is smooth, the bumpier road

Choices:
A. will be lower than the smooth road
B. will be longer than the smooth road
C. will be rough on tires
D. will have cars driving quickly

friction causes the speed of an object to decrease

Answer: C


Choices:
A. space
B. aging
C. time
D. catastrophic natural events

Answer: D


Choices:
A. indicate how often the tree needs pruning
B. tell you what year a tree was planted
C. tell you how tall a tree is
D. indicate the year the tree will die

the number of rings in a tree trunk can be used to estimate the age of the tree

Answer: B


what do animals need to protect them from bad weather?

Choices:
A. housing
B. food
C. water
D. clothing

Answer: A


Choices:
A. green structures that grow from concrete
B. green structures that grow from brick
C. green structures that fall from the sky
D. green structures that rise from the ground

a stem is a source of support for a plant

Answer: D


resources other than manmade can only be found on

Choices:
A. a laboratory
B. your home
C. the moon
D. our planet

Answer: D


A way to tell if a rock could possibly hold Fe inside is to

Choices:
A. hover a magnet over it
B. take the rock home
C. ask someone at school
D. look at it closely

Answer: A


The black bear in Alaska is known for hunting this type of feast

Choices:
A. moose
B. sasquatch
C. fish
D. elk

Answer: C


Draining the rain with a rain gutter onto bare ground through a spout will

Choices:
A. make the ground underneath contain less soil
B. attract more dirt to where the water is falling
C. cause the ground to become very hard
D. draw up more water from underground

pouring water onto soil causes that soil to wash away

Answer: A


on which of these does a ball fall faster from a height?

Choices:
A. our world
B. on the moon
C. on pluto
D. none of these

gravity causes substances to be pulled down on a planet

Answer: A


A storm is coming and dark clouds are rolling in, which were formed after

Choices:
A. fluid was drawn from the air
B. rain was drawn on a sheet
C. water was wet in the future
D. people drew rain storms

clouds are formed by water vapor rising and condensing

Answer: A


Choices:
A. Tropical Environment
B. Warm Climates
C. Water Environments
D. Snow Environment

the arctic environment is covered in snow

Answer: D


Keeping your fast food bags in the car until you get home instead of throwing them out the window is an example of protecting the

Choices:
A. Car
B. environment
C. Restaurant
D. people

An example of protecting the environment is reducing the amount of waste

Answer: B


Choices:
A. allow unlimited hunting of endangered species
B. are full of pollution
C. get very few visitors on a yearly basis
D. take measures to protect their animal populations

Answer: D


Using trash in the way it was used in the last scene of the 'Back to the Future' movie is, most ideally, an example of:

Choices:
A. creative filming
B. an alternative fuel
C. wishful thinking
D. cleaning the environment

An example of creating an alternative fuel is turning plant material into fuel

Answer: B


Water boiling in a pot on a stove is an example of

Choices:
A. electrocution
B. freezing
C. hydroplaning
D. thermal conduction

thermal conduction is when materials conduct heat through those materials

Answer: D


The ground moving when the atomic bombs landed is similar to?

Choices:
A. earthquake
B. world war
C. geyser spout
D. volcano

an earthquake causes the ground to shake

Answer: A


What do animals do if their habitat cannot support them?

Choices:
A. fertilize the habitat
B. fortify area
C. abandon it
D. stay in area

if a habitat can no longer support animals then those animals will move to another area

Answer: C


What offers a tree with stability and a way to distribute nutrients throughout the plant?

Choices:
A. sap
B. leaves
C. fruit
D. trunk

a trunk is a source of support for a tree

Answer: D


For what does a stove generally generate heat?

Choices:
A. warming the air in the area
B. heating nutrients to appropriate temperatures
C. entertaining various visitors and guests
D. to create electrical charges

a stove generates heat for cooking usually

Answer: B


Choices:
A. leave the hood hot to the touch
B. cause the trunk to pop open
C. leave the hood cold to the touch
D. cause the car doors to spring open

Answer: A


Choices:
A. will leave you shivering
B. will keep you toasty
C. will make it difficult to see in the dark
D. will cool you down

Answer: B


Each of the moon's phases usually occurs once per

Choices:
A. week
B. day
C. 30 days
D. year

each of the moon 's phases usually occurs once per month

Answer: C


What is an example of an animal needing warmth for survival?

Choices:
A. a deer nestled into long grass
B. a rabbit hopping through the snow
C. a bat catching a mosquito
D. a dog eating from a dish

Answer: A


Choices:
A. Meat
B. Chicken
C. Tires
D. A bush

Answer: D


Choices:
A. 24
B. 1440
C. 2400
D. 240

Answer: B


Choices:
A. the largest star in the sky
B. the brightest celestial object
C. the closest body in in space
D. the biggest thing in the universe

the moon is the celestial object that is closest to the Earth

Answer: C


which of these would lead to a rise in speed and acceleration?

Choices:
A. a person running behind and kicking a balloon
B. a person sitting still
C. a person standing in place
D. a person stopping an oncoming ball

a force continually acting on an object in the same direction that the object is moving can cause that object 's speed to increase in a forward motion

Answer: A


Choices:
A. wheat growing in a field
B. peat moss growing on river rocks
C. air plants growing in a shell
D. a dandelion growing thru a line in asphalt

An example of weathering is when a plant root grows into a crack in rock

Answer: D


which of these people will have the best sight while driving to work?

Choices:
A. a person driving in the blizzard
B. a person driving in the night
C. a person in the spring morning
D. a person driving in the rain

bad weather decreases visibility while driving

Answer: C


Choices:
A. indicates a boom in animal reproduction
B. can indicate a drop off in frigid temperatures
C. indicates plentiful amounts of water
D. can indicate a nutrient insufficient environment

as the supply of food in an environment decreases , the population of animals in that environment will decrease

Answer: D


Some plants are easy for hummingbirds to sip nectar from. While the hummingbirds are taking nectar, the plants also gain something, which is

Choices:
A. bird friends
B. more nectar
C. extra food
D. a pollinator

when pollen sticks to a hummingbird , that pollen will move to where the hummingbird moves

Answer: D


Choices:
A. using more water
B. using more packaging
C. using less renewables
D. using less hairspray

An example of protecting the environment is reducing the amount of pollutants

Answer: D


A flashlight works because the batteries inside of it produce chemical energy that

Choices:
A. makes the lights bright
B. burn into the plastic
C. is transferred to another type
D. lights up a room

a flashlight converts chemical energy into light energy

Answer: C


Choices:
A. Brush my hair
B. Consume an apple
C. Wash my face
D. Go running

the Earth absorbs more energy than it loses

Answer: B


If it is dark outside it is hard to see an object because it there is no

Choices:
A. objects
B. sight
C. movement
D. light

if an object reflects light toward the eye then that object can be seen

Answer: D


Electricity can flow as long as it has a conductor to help it along, such as

Choices:
A. nickel earrings
B. cardboard paperclips
C. wooden bowls
D. rubber soles

An electrical conductor is a vehicle for the flow of electricity

Answer: A


Which animal has the best camouflage in the Sahara?

Choices:
A. a koala bear
B. a horned viper
C. Gyrfalcon
D. a sloth

camouflage is used for hiding by animals from predators

Answer: B


Choices:
A. How to Swim
B. Radiation isotope creation
C. Head to Rotate
D. Clouds to Move

magnetism can cause objects to repel each other

Answer: B


Choices:
A. begging for water constantly
B. crying for hours on end
C. drowning in a small puddle
D. expelling water from their dermis

panting is when an animal hangs its tongue out of its mouth to adjust to hot temperatures

Answer: D


The sun appears to move because of the rotation of a

Choices:
A. star
B. moon
C. sun
D. planet

the Earth rotating on its axis causes the sun to appear to move across the sky during the day

Answer: D


I need what to calculate the length from my big toe to my little toe?

Choices:
A. Calculator
B. Tape Measure
C. A Graph
D. A Microscope

a tape measure is used to measure distance

Answer: B


Choices:
A. I should wear a coat
B. I should wear a tank top
C. I should wear sandals
D. I should go to the beach

if a leaf falls off of a tree then that leaf is dead

Answer: A


A material that can be burned to produce electricity can be made from

Choices:
A. water
B. air
C. electronics
D. algae

biofuel is used to produce electricity by burning

Answer: D


Choices:
A. is a useless action
B. is a harmful action
C. is a worthwhile action
D. is a neutral action

planting native plants has a positive impact on an ecosystem

Answer: C


The world changes over time, and an example of this could be

Choices:
A. sand covering a beach front
B. a lake hosting hundreds of fish
C. cities buried under lava rock
D. seas having saltwater in them

An example of a change in the Earth is an ocean becoming a wooded area

Answer: C


A swordbill is able to drink from long, narrow flowers where other birds are unable to because of

Choices:
A. the flower pushes them away
B. the swordbill's skill at drinking
C. genetic advantage of swordbills
D. lack of experience in pollinating

a skinny beak is used for obtaining food by a bird from small spaces

Answer: C


If you had a telescope what is something meant to be viewed by it?

Choices:
A. Greater Pewee
B. Vibrio
C. Alcor
D. Heisenberg

a telescope is used for observing the sky

Answer: C


Choices:
A. move small magnets around
B. create completed replicas of animals
C. burn plastic with ease
D. recreate an entire image

an electron microscope creates a picture

Answer: D


This is a rarely used way to produce electricity.

Choices:
A. tidal energy
B. wind energy
C. solar power
D. hydroelectric power

tidal energy can be used to produce electricity

Answer: A


A substance people use for writing also helps an animal deal with

Choices:
A. food
B. human activity
C. predators
D. climate change

octopuses releasing ink into the water causes predators to have difficulty seeing the octopus

Answer: C


Choices:
A. South Pole
B. Antartica
C. Ross Ice Shelf
D. Ecuador

Answer: D


by congregating together a collection of organisms chances of survival

Choices:
A. decreases
B. raises
C. stops
D. stays the same

as number of organisms in a group increases , the chance of survival of each organism will increase

Answer: B


Choices:
A. dogs
B. lizard-like amphibians
C. flies
D. cats

Answer: B


Choices:
A. verdant organisms that grow from the ground
B. verdant fish that swim through the sea
C. verdant monkeys that swing from the trees
D. verdant animals that fly from the sky

Answer: A


Choices:
A. when beach goers leave behind detritus on the sand
B. when turtles lay their eggs
C. when children play in the ocean
D. when seagulls nest in dunes

humans discarding waste in an environment causes harm to that environment

Answer: A


which of these could lead to the introduction of new plant species to a place?

Choices:
A. a botanist introducing them
B. a dog traveling through a field
C. a farmer introducing them
D. all the mentioned options

if seeds stick to the fur of an animal then that seed will be transported by the animal

Answer: D


A man is building a cabin in a forested area that receives a lot of snow in the winter. The man would like the cabin to retain heat in the winter so that the cabin stays warm and that it is inexpensive to heat. In order to facilitate this desire, the man lines the walls of his cabin with

Choices:
A. thermal insulator
B. glass
C. thermal gravity
D. hard plastic

a thermal insulator slows the transfer of heat

Answer: A


To travel in an environmentally friendly way

Choices:
A. drive a gas guzzling truck
B. take a coal powered train
C. use a two wheel human-powered vehicle
D. drive a car with a leaky gas tank

Answer: C


Choices:
A. plastic is used for eating utensils
B. oxygen circulates in a vacuum chamber
C. H2O is exposed to air
D. Na is added to Cl

chemical reactions cause chemical change

Answer: D


What is an example of friction occurring?

Choices:
A. there is more resistance driving on gravel than on concrete
B. a person thinks a thought
C. an apple falls to the ground from a tree
D. a spring bounces back and forth

friction occurs when two object 's surfaces move against each other

Answer: A


What animal will have the least pressure on it

Choices:
A. a fish at the bottom of the ocean
B. a salmon swimming just under the surface of river
C. a cat running down a street
D. a falcon flying above a peak

as an object descends into water , the pressure on that object will increase

Answer: D


Choices:
A. lions
B. crocodiles
C. log cabins
D. polar bears

Answer: C


What is formed by water evaporating from a solution of water and minerals?

Choices:
A. shale
B. pants
C. food
D. glass

limestone is formed by water evaporating from a solution of water and minerals

Answer: A


Choices:
A. how an object reacts to heat
B. whether an object is expansive
C. how an object smells
D. the state of matter of an object

the volume of an object can be used to describe the size of that object

Answer: B


Choices:
A. it neutralizes the whole
B. it takes it apart
C. it enlarges the whole
D. it puts it together

tearing means changing a whole into pieces

Answer: B


Choices:
A. insects
B. marsupials
C. trees
D. cockroaches

Answer: B


A man grows flowers in the winter using his greenhouse. The flowers blossom there, despite the cold, freezing weather and lack of sunshine, because

Choices:
A. they are regularly chilled
B. they are given salt
C. they are carefully protected
D. they are told to

a greenhouse is used to protect plants by keeping them warm

Answer: C


Choices:
A. ponds in local communities
B. the rivers in mid-America
C. streams in the Arctic
D. tepid waters of the Atlantic

Answer: D


Switching on a light can complete an electrical circuit, which may

Choices:
A. brighten a room
B. turn off fans
C. close a door
D. use a flashlight

when electricity flows to a light bulb , the light bulb will come on

Answer: A


Choices:
A. speeds up eating time
B. slows down swimming pace
C. improve appearance of fish
D. allows for brisker movements

large fins can be used to move quickly through water

Answer: D


Choices:
A. milk
B. coke
C. water
D. clouds

a solution is made of one substance dissolved in another substance

Answer: B


why must a cell delegate its essential functionalities?

Choices:
A. all of these
B. to maximize work distribution
C. to avoid extra work
D. to catch its prey

if a cell can not specialize then that cell must perform all life functions

Answer: B


Choices:
A. the same
B. more
C. unpredictably
D. less

gravity causes substances to be pulled down on a planet

Answer: D


Choices:
A. sunflowers
B. oil
C. steel
D. stones

Answer: A


Choices:
A. hail
B. heat
C. wind
D. humidity

Answer: A


A refraction of light that splits into all different colors often occurs after

Choices:
A. clouds
B. rain
C. heat
D. earthquakes

a rainbow is formed by refraction of light by splitting light into all different colors

Answer: B


Acid rain may effect things in ways such as

Choices:
A. causing grass to grow greener
B. creating craters in mountains
C. turning city streets to slush
D. marine life becomes inedible

acid rain has a negative impact on water quality

Answer: D


When hurricanes move over land, the hurricane does what?

Choices:
A. speeds up a considerate amount
B. stops almost at once
C. gains a lot of strength
D. loses capacity to withstand great force or pressure

when a hurricane moves over land , that hurricane will decrease in strength

Answer: D


If you add heat to something, a chemical reaction may take place, like when

Choices:
A. ingredients are mixed in a bowl
B. coffee is warmed in a microwave
C. mixed ingredients become a cupcake
D. pasta is warmed on a stove

adding heat to an object sometimes causes chemical reactions

Answer: C


Choices:
A. carbonated water with bubbles
B. x-rays made from radiation
C. sulfur-containing analog of an alcohol
D. ammonia containing some liquid

Answer: C


In which situation would an animal shed fur?

Choices:
A. It is angry
B. It is hot
C. It is cold
D. It is happy

Answer: B


If seeds stick to the coat of an animal they can be?

Choices:
A. stored
B. transported
C. eaten
D. germinated

if seeds stick to the fur of an animal then that seed will be transported by the animal

Answer: B


Choices:
A. encourage pathogen growth
B. increase pathogen production
C. obliterate pathogens
D. join with pathogens

white blood cell destroys pathogens in the body

Answer: C


A thermal conductor may conduct energy from

Choices:
A. ice
B. stone
C. sunshine
D. fabric

a thermal conductor is made of materials that conduct thermal energy

Answer: C


Choices:
A. when cooling down after a work out
B. when running pace increases
C. when running pace slows
D. when entering into a sleep state

as energy required for an activity increases , pulse will increase

Answer: B


Bicycle riding is nearly unique to certain species such as

Choices:
A. dolphins
B. human beings
C. dogs
D. small squirrels

Answer: B


Choices:
A. has already become extinct
B. can reproduce through asexual reproduction
C. is on the verge of extinction
D. should be preserved in a museum

if a population decreases to zero then that organism is extinct

Answer: C


Choices:
A. thicker fur on the animal
B. less hair on the furniture
C. lighter colored fur on the animal.
D. more hair on the furniture

when an animal sheds its fur , its fur becomes less dense

Answer: D


migration is when animals travel from the northern most state to Texas during what segment of time?

Choices:
A. birds
B. spring
C. lake fronts
D. winter

migration is when animals move themselves from a cooler climate to a warmer climate for the winter

Answer: D


Choices:
A. animals
B. rain
C. wind
D. flowers

transpiration is when water vapor moves from leaves into the atmosphere

Answer: B


Choices:
A. if two pebbles rub together over long periods of time
B. if an abrasive is rubbed against cement
C. if flint is struck against stone
D. if bricks are thrown at each other

contact between rocks over long periods of time causes rocks to smooth

Answer: A


Which shows a change from potential energy to kinetic energy?

Choices:
A. a tree growing fruit
B. a rock sitting still
C. a person climbing a mountain
D. an orange dropping from a tree

potential energy changes to kinetic energy through motion

Answer: D


The type of climate change known as anthropogenic is caused by this:

Choices:
A. humanity
B. volcanic activity
C. increased sunlight
D. forest fires

humans moving into an environment usually causes native species to lose their habitats

Answer: A


What is one thing cloud precipitation can be?

Choices:
A. a thunder boom
B. a liquid fire
C. unfavorable weather outlook
D. none of these

Answer: C


Choices:
A. Grass
B. The color green
C. Quiet heavy
D. Bricks

Answer: C


Choices:
A. live birth
B. cloning.
C. eggs
D. mitosis

An example of reproduction is laying eggs

Answer: C


which of these is more similar to electric particles behavior?

Choices:
A. cars traveling on a highway
B. both of the above
C. cars parked in a parking lot
D. cars in a garage

electricity is made of moving charged particles

Answer: A


Choices:
A. Plastic
B. Denim
C. Lumber
D. White sugar

if something is a raw material then that something comes directly from a source

Answer: C


deserts are known for having what type of climates?

Choices:
A. comfortable
B. moderate
C. freezing
D. scorching

a desert environment is usually hot in temperature

Answer: D


Choices:
A. Pour water into a lake
B. Run water in a facet
C. Put plastic over a plant
D. Watch the rain fall

evaporation causes amount of water to decrease

Answer: C


Choices:
A. particles
B. water
C. bugs
D. sound

Answer: A


When the Earth's Northern axis is tilted away from the Sun the amount of daylight is

Choices:
A. brighter
B. lengthened
C. shortened
D. turned back

as the distance of a location from the North Pole becomes smaller, the amount of daylight received by that location will decrease during the winter

Answer: C


Choices:
A. the south
B. overhead
C. below
D. the north

the sun is located directly overhead at noon

Answer: B


We made sure to use the hose on the begonia daily so it would

Choices:
A. melt
B. survive
C. die
D. freeze.

Answer: B


Choices:
A. they bury their food
B. they prefer to eat acorns
C. squirrels live in trees
D. they eat lots of nuts

In the tree reproduction process a squirrel has the role of seed disperser

Answer: A


What type of human diet would be most comparable to a cow

Choices:
A. Pescaterian
B. Vegan
C. Atkins Diet
D. Omnivore

Answer: B