Science department
Quarter 3 ( 2014/2015 )
Grade 5 Revision Sheet
Name:
Multiple Choice
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1. Earth’s crust is made up of plates that rest on the mantle. Which of the following is the best estimate
of how many plates make up the earth’s crust?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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an earthquake
the forming of a mountain range
the sinking of a fault line
a volcanic eruption
4. As two continental plates move together, their edges fold and bend, pushing up mountain ranges.
Which statement about a young mountain range would be true?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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It will be more snow-covered than older mountain ranges.
Its mountains will be taller than those of older ranges.
It will be less weathered than older mountain ranges.
Its mountains will be less volcanic than those of older ranges.
3. Earth’s surface is constantly changing. Which process begins in Earth’s mantle below Earth’s crust?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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10
100
1,000
10,000
2. As two continental plates move together, their edges fold and bend, pushing up mountain ranges.
Which statement about a young mountain range would be true?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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Class:
It will be more snow-covered than older mountain ranges.
Its mountains will be taller than those of older ranges.
It will be less weathered than older mountain ranges.
Its mountains will be less volcanic than those of older ranges.
5. Suppose that an earthquake has occurred along the San Andreas fault in the western United States.
Which event most likely caused the earthquake?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Two plates moved near each other.
Two plates moved against each other.
Two plates moved on top of each other.
Two plates moved away from each other.
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6. Below the Atlantic Ocean floor, two plates move apart. What landform is beginning to develop?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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7. Earth is made up of many layers. Which layer is responsible for the movement of Earth’s plates?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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a canyon
a crevice
a mountain
a volcano
the core
the crust
the mantle
the ocean
8. Look at the image below. The arrow points to the Atlantic Ocean as it was millions of years ago.
Which statement best describes what is happening to the Atlantic Ocean as the plates drift farther
apart?
A.
B.
C.
D.
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It is growing deeper.
It is becoming wider.
Its water is becoming saltier.
Its temperature is decreasing.
9. A scientist wants to study the effects of plate movements. What would be the best way for the
scientist to do this?
A.
B.
C.
D.
____10.
conduct an experiment
visit an active volcano
observe the Ring of Fire
design a computer model
Sometimes, magma forces plates to push apart. Which statement best explains how magma reaches
Earth’s surface?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Gravity pulls the magma to the surface.
Plate movement forces the magma upward.
Heat and pressure cause the magma to rise.
Magnetism attracts the magma to the surface.
____ 11. Plates cause changes to Earth’s surface as they move and shift. Which type of plate movement forms
mountains?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Plates drift apart.
Plates slide by each other.
Plates push against each other.
Plates blend to form one large plate.
____ 12. Oil and natural gas are two types of fossil fuel that are used to heat homes. What did oil and natural
gas form from?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Sediment
dead plants
dead ocean fish
tiny marine animals
____ 13.
Plants and animals become fossilized in several different ways. Which object fossilized most
recently?
A.
B.
C.
D.
A
B
C
D
____ 14. Paolo wants to identify a mineral. He rubs a corner of the mineral across a white tile and records the
color of the mark. What property is Paolo measuring?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Color
Luster
Streak
Cleavage
____ 15. Bethany and Ian observe two chunks of quartz. Bethany’s piece is colorless. Ian’s piece is light pink.
What do the two pieces of quartz not have in common?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Color
Luster
Streak
Hardness
____ 16. Jorge observes a sample of the mineral galena. He describes the mineral as cubic, gray, metallic, and
opaque. Which term describes galena’s luster?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Cubic
Gray
Metallic
Opaque
____ 17. A group of students was given four unknown mineral samples. The table below shows the
observations they recorded.
Sample Color
Streak
1
brown
red
2
red
red
3
brown
black
4
red
red
Which samples are most likely from the same mineral?
A.
B.
C.
D.
1 and 2 only
1 and 3 only
1, 2, and 3
1, 2, and 4
____ 18. A steel nail can scratch a certain mineral. A copper penny cannot scratch the same mineral. Which
statement is true about the mineral?
A.
B.
C.
D.
It is softer than both copper and steel.
It is harder than both copper and steel.
It is harder than steel, but softer than copper.
It is harder than copper, but softer than steel.
____ 19. In science class, Chantal finds that a steel nail, which has a hardness of 6.5, cannot scratch the
mineral emerald. Based on this observation, what can she conclude?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Emerald has a hardness of 6.
Emerald has a hardness of 7.
Emerald has a hardness of less than 6.5.
Emerald has a hardness of more than 6.5.
____ 20. Manuel labels a sample of quartz as “nonmetallic.” Which mineral property is Manuel describing?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Cleavage
Fracture
Luster
Streak
____ 21. Mae wants to sort some minerals based on their properties. Which property can she observe without
using tools?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Hardness
Luster
Mass
Streak
____ 22. It is difficult to see the surface of Venus through a telescope. Which of these features of Venus best
explains why its surface is difficult to observe from Earth?
A.
B.
C.
D.
It is surrounded by thick clouds.
It is covered completely by water.
It is too far from Earth to be seen.
It does not produce light of its own.
____ 23. While looking at the sky one night, Bevan saw a streak of light. Bevan’s father told him that the light
was produced by a small chunk of rock passing through Earth’s atmosphere. Which of these terms
best describes what Bevan saw?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Asteroid
Comet
Meteor
Meteorite
____ 24. A meteoroid is a chunk of rock traveling through the solar system. How is a meteorite related to a
meteoroid?
A.
B.
C.
D.
A meteorite is a meteoroid that enters Earth’s atmosphere.
A meteorite is a meteoroid that has broken into smaller pieces.
A meteorite is a meteoroid that is larger in size than an asteroid.
A meteorite is a meteoroid that reaches the surface of Earth.
____ 25. The diagram below shows a planet and the sun.
What does the arrow on the diagram show?
A.
B.
C.
D.
how the planet rotates on its axis
the gaseous nature of the planet
why the planet has seasons
how the planet revolves around the sun
____ 26. Why is the sun considered the center of the solar system?
A.
B.
C.
D.
It is closer to Earth than other stars.
The sun produces light and energy.
The sun is the largest object that can be seen.
Everything in the solar system revolves around the sun.
____ 27. The diagram below shows the orbit of Earth and the orbit of Borrelly.
Which of these types of space objects is Borrelly most likely to be?
A.
B.
C.
D.
an asteroid
a comet
a moon
a planet
____ 28. Ganymede is a moon of Jupiter. It is larger than Mercury and has a metallic core similar to Earth’s
core. Which of these statements best explains why Ganymede is classified as a moon rather than a
planet?
A.
B.
C.
D.
It is too large to be called a planet.
It orbits Jupiter instead of the sun.
Its properties are different from Jupiter’s.
It is farther from the sun than Mercury.
____ 29. During a visit to an observatory, Silvano observed the moon, Venus, the sun, and the star Sirius.
Which of these objects is outside of the solar system?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Sirius
Venus
Sun
Moon
____ 30. Which of these characteristics distinguishes the outer planets from the inner planets?
A.
B.
C.
D.
The outer planets have many moons.
The outer planets orbit in a different direction.
The outer planets have higher densities.
The outer planets have smaller diameters.
____ 31. Earth and Saturn are both planets orbiting the sun. Which of these other features do the two planets
have in common?
A.
B.
C.
D.
They have a thin atmosphere.
They rotate about an axis.
Their orbits are the same length.
They have about the same mass.
____ 32. The masses of objects in the solar system can be reported by comparing them to the mass of Earth.
Which of these planets in the solar system most likely has a mass more than 300 times greater than
the mass of Earth?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Jupiter
Mercury
Mars
Venus
____ 33. A comet is a chunk of frozen gases, rock, ice, and dust. When does a comet form a visible tail?
A.
B.
C.
D.
at the farthest point of its orbit
as it crosses Earth’s orbit
when it leaves the asteroid belt
when it passes close to the sun
Short answers:
1. Most fossils are made of hard parts—bones, shells, or teeth. Soft parts such as skin, organs, eyes and
muscle are rarely preserved as fossils. Why is this so?
2. The planets are divided into rocky planets and gas giants. The gas giants are larger than the rocky
planets but have lower densities. Explain how this is possible.
3. During the gold rush, many miners were fooled into thinking that pyrite was gold. In fact, pyrite is
sometimes called “fool’s gold.”
Mineral
Hardness Streak
Color
Gold
2.5 to 3
yellow
yellow
Calcite
3
white
colorless or white
Hematite
5.5 to 6.5 reddish-brown steel-gray to black, sometimes
red
Feldspar
6
none
colorless or pink
Pyrite
6 to 6.5
greenish-black yellow
Quartz
7
none
colorless, pink, brown, and many
other colors
Study the table. If someone gave you two yellow minerals, how could you tell which was pyrite and
which was gold?
4.
Jupiter and Saturn are both gas giants. Describe two features of Jupiter and Saturn that are the same
and two features that are different.
Model Answers:
Multiple choice:
1. A
2. C
3. A
4. C
5. A
6. A
7. C
8. B
9. D
10. C
11. C
12. D
13. D
14. C
15. A
16. C
17. D
18. C
19. D
20. C
21. B
22. A
23. C
24. D
25. A
26. D
27. B
28. B
29. A
30. A
31. B
32. A
33. D
Short answers:
1. Sample answer: Soft parts are very easily eaten by predators or decomposed by bacteria. Over time,
it is the hard parts that are left behind.
2. Sample answer: The gas giants are larger than the rocky planets but have only a small core. They
have very thick atmospheres. This is why they are larger than the rocky planets but have lower
densities.
3. Sample Answer: The hardness and streak of both minerals could be tested. Pyrite is harder than gold
and has a greenish-black streak.
4. Sample answer: Jupiter and Saturn are both very large planets with large diameters. They also both
have thick atmospheres. One difference between Jupiter and Saturn is that Jupiter is closer to the
sun. Saturn also has the unique feature of having obvious rings around it.
Students may include these similarities:
• small, solid core
• thick atmosphere
• large size
• large diameter
• large mass
• low density
• long period of revolution
• orbit the sun
• great distance from the sun
• many moons
Students may include these differences:
• Saturn is farther from the sun than Jupiter.
• Jupiter is larger than Saturn.
• Jupiter has a larger diameter than Saturn.
• Jupiter has a greater mass than Saturn.
• Jupiter has a large red spot.
• Saturn has well-defined rings.