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Sixth Grade Science Study Guide 2014-2015
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1.
What is the formula to calculate density?
“Of Life” Anything living, once living, or
from something living
Density = mass ÷ volume
2.
When using a microscope, you should
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never focus toward the slide.
3.
4.
Give some examples of biotic factors:
Animals, plants, dead animals and
plants, fungi, bacteria, etc.
Write a simple procedure to determine
which of two baseballs can go the
farthest:
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A(n) ecosystem is all the living and
nonliving things in a particular area that
interact with one another.
Hit each baseball with the same
amount of force and measure the
distance traveled.
11.
Write the levels of organization in an
ecosystem, from the smallest to largest
level:
How can you determine if a cell is
prokaryotic or eukaryotic?
Eukaryotic cells have a nucleus,
prokaryotic cells do not.
Organism, Population, Community,
Ecosytem
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5.
What does biotic mean?
A cell has DNA that lies free in the
cytoplasm inside a single rod-shaped cell.
What type of cell is it?
What is a compound?
A chemical with two or more different
elements
13.
About 99% of the Earth’s atmosphere is
made up of Nitrogen
prokaryotic
and Oxygen.
6.
Describe the following Kingdoms:
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Plantae: Multicellular, eukaryotic,
autotrophic
Fungi: unicellular or multicellular,
eukaryotic, heterotrophic, don’t move
Two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen
atom
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Animalia: unicellular, or multicellular,
eukaryotic, heterotrophic, can move
Give an example of a compound:
H2O, NaCl, CO2
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7.
The compound of water is made of
List the levels of taxonomic classification
from highest to lowest:
What sort of energy is found in the spring
of a closed Jack-in-the-Box?
Mechanical potential energy
Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class,
Order, Family, Genus, Species
17.
What form of energy is stored in our
food? Chemical potential energy
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During energy transformations some
energy is always transformed into
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Substances that are less
dense float on substances that are
Thermal energy
more dense.
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20.
Scientists have designed solar cells to
trap solar energy and convert it to
electrical energy energy.
A softball is dropped off of the side of a
building. Ignore the effects of air
resistance. As the ball continues to fall
freely, the kinetic energy of the ball
28.
An inclined plane reduces the effort force to
lift a load by spreading the work out over the
length of the plane
29.
Increases.
Sketch a roller coaster and indicate the
position at which a roller car would have
the most kinetic energy and where it
would have the most potential energy.
A roller coaster car would have the
maximum kinetic energy at the bottom of
the first hill, it would have the maximum
potential energy at the top of the first hill.
30.
Energy can neither be created
A battery converts chemical energy into
electrical energy for human use.
24.
Name some physical properties of matter:
Mass, volume, density, color,
solubility, malleability, ductility,
hardness
25.
Give some examples of physical
changes:
Melt, dissolve, freeze, evaporate,
break, stretch,
26.
Name some chemical properties:
Flammability, reactivity with acids and
bases, rusting, tarnishing,
Analyze the data in the following table.
Time
Distance
(seconds)
(centimeters)
1
9
2
18
3
4
36
5
45
What is the approximate distance the
object has traveled at the end of three
seconds?
nor destroyed.
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What is the formula for calculating
speed?
Speed = distance ÷ time
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22.
How does an inclined plane help us to do
work?
27 centimeters
31.
The soft layer of the mantle on which
pieces of the lithosphere move is called
the asthenosphere.
Sixth Grade Science Study Guide 2014-2015
32.
The graph below shows the motion of a
motorcycle rider. Using data from the
graph, a student can conclude that after
25 seconds the rider will have moved a
distance of – .
Distance vs. Time
40.
Draw the beams of a triple beam balance
to show 345.6g.
300 grams on the hundreds beam, 40 grams
on the tens beam, and 5.6 grams on the
ones beam.
41.
List some non-renewable energy
resources:
Fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas), nuclear
fuels,
42.
There are three beakers with liquids with
measurements as shown:
250 meters
33.
Venus is the hottest planet.
34.
A type of rock that forms when hot, liquid
How do the liquids compare in terms of
mass, volume, and density?
rock hardens is called igneous rock.
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The lithosphere is made of the crust and
the rigid, upper part of the mantle.
36.
The longer the inclined plane, the
The liquids have the same volumes
but different masses, so they have
different densities.
less effort force required to move a load.
37.
What are tectonic plates?
Slabs of lithosphere that float on the
asthenosphere
During an investigation, students added 5
grams of salt to 50 ml of water. The solution
was stirred, poured into a Petri dish, and left
undisturbed for three days
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38.
The asteroid belt is located between the
orbits of which two planets?
Mars and Jupiter
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What protects the Earth from the
temperature extremes of space?
Our atmosphere
What is left in the Petri dish after Day 3?
5 grams of salt
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44.
The planetary motion modeled by object
Y is called revolution.
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The unit of time based on the motion of
object Z is day.
46. Sally finds a block of wood that has a
volume of 100cm3. Its mass is 250 grams.
What is its density?
2.5 g/cm3
47. What do all living things have in common?
They are all made of cells
48. Give the name of each Kingdom:
Kingdom 1 - Animalia
Kingdom 2 - Plantae
Kingdom 3 - Fungi
Kingdom 4 - Protista