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6th Grade
Science
Chapter 1-3
Interim
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1. T or F
Listen to or read instructions
carefully before attempting to do
anything.
Answer:
True
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2. Tor F Clean up broken glass around
your work station before you notify the
teacher.
Answer:
False
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3. Tor F Safety goggles should be worn
during lab to protect your eyes from hot
liquids or hazardous chemicals
Answer:
True
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4. Tor F Gems are rare minerals that can
be cut and polished.
Answer:
True
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5. T or F Organic rocks are plants and
animals that have died and then been
compressed and heated.
Answer:
True
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6. ____ is a process of understanding the world.
a. Science
c. A control
b. Technology
d. A constant
Answer:
Science
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7. A testable prediction about a possible solution
to a problem is called ____.
a. a conclusion
c. a hypothesis
b. an experiment
d. a variable
Answer:
A hypothesis
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8. When designing an experiment, the first step is
to ____.
a. analyzing the data c. state a hypothesis
b. list a procedure
d. state the problem
Answer:
state the problem
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9. The study of the cultural remains of ancient
people is ____.
a. technology
c. a control
b. a hypothesis
d. archaeology
Answer:
archaeology
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10. Computers, cameras, and radar are
examples of ____.
a. constants
c. technology
b. variables
d. experiments
Answer:
technology
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11. Recognizing a problem, making observations,
forming and then testing a hypothesis, and
analyzing data are all steps in ____.
a. an experiment
c. a scientific method
b. technology
d. an inference
Answer:
a scientific method
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12. Rocks are produced when magma or lava
cools and hardens are called _____?
a. igneous rocks
c. sedimentary rocks
b. metamorphic rocks d. all of the above
Answer:
igneous rocks
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13. What is rock made of?
a. Sedimentary rock that is heated
b. eroded to form metamorphic rock
c. Extrusive and Intrusive rock
d. Two or more minerals
Answer:
Two or more minerals
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14. Minerals form from ______.
a. volcanic activity
b. evaporation, precipitation, and lava
c. sedimentary rock
d. igneous rock
Answer:
evaporation, precipitation, and lava
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15. What is a mineral?
a. Inorganic natural substance
b. Organic natural substance
c. A substance 4.0 or more hardness
d. An extrusive substance
Answer:
Inorganic natural substance
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16. What kind of rocks are formed by
volcanic eruptions?
a. detrital
c. organic
b.foliated
d. extrusive
Answer:
extrusive
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17. A model that shows the process of how rocks
are changed from one type to another.
a. ore
c. rock cycle
b. crystal d. extrusive rock
Answer:
rock cycle
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18. A mineral that contains something (usually
metal) that can be useful and sold for a profit
a. ore
c. rock
b. crystal
d. gem
Answer:
ore
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19. What causes each type of rock in the rock
cycle to turn into sediments?
a. magma
b. heat and pressure
c. weathering and erosion
d. igneous rock
Answer:
weathering and erosion
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20. What are bowl shaped basins resulting from
glacial erosion on the side of a mountain
a. Moraines
c. Cirques
b. Hornes
d. Striations
Answer:
Cirques
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21. Trees that grow up straight but have a bent
trunk near their base show signs of
a. rockfalls
c. creep
b. mud flow
d. slump
Answer:
creep
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22. To reduce erosion of steep slopes, people can
____________.
a. plant vegetation
c. build walls
b. insert drainage
d. all of the above
Answer:
all of the above
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23. Which term refers to sediment that is
deposited by meltwater most often beyond the
end of a glacier?
a. loess
c. outwash
b. moraine
d. till
Answer:
outwash
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24. The picture above is a picture of
a. slump
c. mudflow
b. abrasion
d. loess
Answer:
slump
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25. In the picture above letter “B” is pointing
to
a. arete
c. hanging valley
b. cirque
d. horn
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horn
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26. A process that wears away surface materials
and moves them from one place to another
a. erosion
c. deflation
b. deposition
d. abrasion
Answer:
erosion
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27. The dropping of sediments
a. erosion
c. deflation
b. deposition d. abrasion
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deposition
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28. _____ is the result of wind blowing across
loose sediment, removing small particles and
leaving heavier material behind.
a. Erosion
c. Deflation
b. Deposition
d. Abrasion
Answer:
Deflation
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29. The polishing and pitting of rocks by
windblown particles.
a. erosion
c. deflation
b. deposition d. abrasion
Answer:
abrasion
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30. What are 3 properties of minerals?
1. _________ 2.__________ 3.__________
Answer:
hardness, luster, streak, color, taste, fracture, cleavage,
crystal, specific gravity, fluorescence, smell