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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Second Grade Science Test Online / Academic Science Words


Second Grade Science Test:
Academic Science Words
Name:
 

Instructions: Choose the best answer for each question.
1.                the sequence of changes that a living thing goes through as it grows and develops. Birth, growth, reproduction, aging, and death are all stages in the __________ of an animal.
 natural
 behavior
 life cycle
 prey
2.                to say ahead of time that something will happen.
 predict
 dissolve
 prehistoric
 scientist
3.                the thing that is in humans, animals, and plants that allows them to grow and to produce more creatures like themselves. Things like rocks do not have __________.
 larva
 gas
 fuel
 life
4.                a person who works in or studies a science.
 resource
 scientist
 predator
 prehistoric
5.                a drawing that shows information and the relationships between pieces of that information.
 gas
 graph
 dissolve
 diversity
6.                belonging to a period in a time before written history.
 gas
 prehistoric
 graph
 resource
7.                an insect after it hatches from an egg and before it changes into its adult form. __________ do not have wings and look like worms. Most kinds of insects spend part of their lives as __________. Caterpillars are a type of __________.
 larva
 cycle
 natural
 predict
8.                materials that are found in nature and that can be used by people in many ways. Fresh water, soil, coal, and forests are all examples of __________.
 natural resources
 larva
 cycle
 habitat
9.                of or produced by nature.
 graph
 natural
 gas
 larva
10.           to mix completely with a liquid.
 dissolve
 predator
 pattern
 hibernate
11.           the typical actions of a person, animal, thing, or group.
 dissolve
 predict
 life cycle
 behavior
12.           an animal that hunts other animals for food.
 predator
 life cycle
 prey
 natural resources
13.           an animal being hunted, caught, and eaten by another animal.
 natural resources
 prey
 predict
 predator
14.           the measure of space between things or places.
 natural
 predict
 distance
 graph
15.           an arrangement of shapes, lines, letters, numbers, or colors that can be repeated or used again and again.
 life
 pattern
 distance
 natural resources
16.           a source of materials that are valuable or useful.
 resources
 life cycle
 graph
 prehistoric
17.           anything such as wood or gasoline that is burned as a source of energy.
 predator
 graph
 fuel
 dissolve
18.           group of events that repeat at regular times.
 prehistoric
 cycle
 gas
 fuel
19.           to sleep through the winter in a den or burrow to save energy. Bears, snakes, and certain other animals __________.
 prehistoric
 hibernate
 life
 behavior
20.           a form of matter that is neither liquid nor solid. Oxygen is an example of a __________.
 larva
 life
 gas
 distance
21.           the state or condition of being varied or consisting of various kinds.
 prey
 dissolve
 life
 diversity
22.           the natural environment of an animal or plant.
 life cycle
 habitat
 cycle
23.                all or a part of the whole.
 physical
 planet
 property
 space
24.                a device that measures or records distance, speed, time, quantity, or degree.
 difference
 Celsius
 meter
 centimeter
25.                the area that contains the entire universe beyond the earth.
 space
 property
 planet
 difference
26.                relating to a temperature scale on which water freezes at zero degrees and boils at one hundred degrees; centigrade. (abbreviated: C)
 texture
 planet
 difference
 Celsius
27.                the condition of being not the same.
 space
 similarity
 difference
 centimeter
28.                the feel or look of a surface.
 degree
 property
 texture
 planet
29.                a unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter or 0.3937 inch. (abbreviated: cm)
 Celsius
 similarity
 centimeter
 difference
30.                things that can be seen and touched.
 Celsius
 physical
 planet
 degree
31.                being the same or almost the same.
 similarity
 texture
 meter
 centimeter
32.           a unit for measuring temperature.
 physical
 degree
 difference
 meter
33.           a large object in outer space that moves around the sun or another star.
 difference
 planet
 texture
 physical

Second Grade Science Test Online

Academic Science Words / Fourth Grade Science Test Online:


Fourth Grade Science Test:
Academic Science Words

Name:
 

Instructions: Choose the best answer for each question.
1.                a kind of energy that is used for light and heat and for making things operate.
 insulator
 survival
 weather
 electricity
2.                in biology, the placing of plants and animals in groups, based on structure and other criteria; taxonomy.
 sediment
 electricity
 classification
 force
3.                a piece of equipment used for weighing.
 sediment
 motion
 scale
 evidence
4.                anything that carries or allows passage of heat, electricity, or sound.
 evidence
 conductor
 adaptation
 fossil
5.                power, energy, or physical strength.
 producer
 evidence
 insulator
 force
6.                the remains or trace of a living animal or plant from a long time ago. __________ are found embedded in earth or rock.
 fossil
 consumer
 electricity
 organism
7.                a material or device that does not conduct electricity, such as an object of glass or porcelain, that is used to insulate and support electric wires.
 weather
 insulator
 motion
 deposition
8.                in biology, a change in an organism, over time, that better enables it to survive and multiply.
 adaptation
 consumer
 producer
 erosion
9.                solid material that settles to the bottom of a liquid.
 adaptation
 sediment
 erosion
 scale
10.           the act of depositing something, or the thing deposited.
 resistance
 adaptation
 deposition
 mineral
11.           the fact of continuing to live through dangerous or hard conditions.
 reproduce
 conductor
 mineral
 survival
12.           something that gives proof of or a reason to believe something.
 resistance
 conductor
 evidence
 consumer
13.           the conditions outside. __________ concerns such things as temperature, rain, snow, sun, and other things.
 producer
 fossil
 scale
 weather
14.           the opposing power of one force against another.
 insulator
 deposition
 resistance
 adaptation
15.           to make a new plant, human, or animal. In humans, to __________ is to produce offspring.
 sediment
 reproduce
 producer
 evidence
16.           a person or animal who uses or buys goods or services.
 consumer
 motion
 erosion
 conductor
17.           wearing away of the earth's surface by wind or water.
 motion
 sediment
 resistance
 erosion
18.           an individual living thing, such as a plant, an animal, or a bacteria.
 adaptation
 resistance
 organism
 producer
19.           a substance in the earth that does not come from an animal or a plant. Some __________, like iron and calcium, are important for human health.
 electricity
 organism
 motion
 mineral
20.           the rubbing of one object or surface against another.
 reproduce
 erosion
 evidence
 friction
21.           the act of moving or changing places.
 reproduce
 motion
 deposition
 insulator
22.           a person or company that makes something.
 weather
 deposition
 evidence
 producer