4th Grade Science Vocab. Review #1 Question Preview (ID: 25065)


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Something that affects some thing else (e.g., cold weather causes birds to migrate)
a) factor
b) characteristics
c) decomposer
d) function

The purpose or job of something
a) decomposer
b) function
c) rotation
d) revolution

When an object moves around another object (clue: the earth revolves around the sun)
a) factor
b) rotation
c) revolution
d) characteristics

Solar, light, heat, electrical, sound, mechanical (movement), chemical (food, battery, fuel) are examples of these
a) factor
b) function
c) life cycles
d) energy forms

The name for animals that are eaten by other animals
a) predator
b) prey
c) decomposer
d) function

To adjust to new conditions
a) precipitation
b) energy forms
c) adapt
d) environment

The definition for when energy is changed from one form to another. Example: chemical (battery) to electricity to light and heat (flashlight)
a) revolution
b) function
c) environment
d) energy transformation

Characteristics that can only be passed onto offspring from parents (e.g. your eye color, an animal's fur color, freckles)
a) inherited trait
b) migration
c) hibernate
d) property

To scatter in different directions
a) adapt
b) disperse
c) life cycles
d) characteristics

The stages a living thing goes through during its life (e.g., seed - sapling - tree or egg - larva - pupa - adult)
a) predators
b) property
c) life cycles
d) prey

This shows the flow of energy in a community. (Clue: energy begins with the sun and producers - plants)
a) food chain
b) characteristics
c) nutrients
d) property

Animals that eat other animals are called
a) migration
b) disperse
c) prey
d) predators

Substances in food that living things use for energy, growth, and life are called
a) hibernate
b) nutrients
c) rotation
d) revolution

The spin of an object around its own axis. (Clue: because the earth does this, we have night and day)
a) revolution
b) rotation
c) property
d) inherited trait

A description that helps to explain or identify something
a) characteristics
b) property
c) prey
d) decomposer

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