Science ISTEP Jeopardy

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Plants Animals
Rocks Dirt
Grab Bag
Measure
Scientific Method
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A1
How do bees help flowers?
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A1
Transfer of pollen
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A2
List 3 reasons a plant might die.
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• Not enough light
• Not enough nutrients
• Not enough water
• Pollution
• Insect or animals
• Traffic
• Insecticide
• Too much light
• Too much water
• Too hot or too cold

A2
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nt.jpg
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A3
What kind of data would you record when growing
plants?
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A3

• size
• color
• texture
• smell
• weight

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A4
Why would a plant grow more seeds than are
actually needed?
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A4
Some seeds will be eaten, some seeds wont grow
because of conditions
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A5
These energy sources were formed a long time ago
from decayed plants and animals.
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A5
Fossil fuels
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B1
Where do rocks come from?
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B1
Mountains, volcanoes, riverbeds
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B2
What are the ingredients of soil?
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B2
Small rocks, plant material, animal material
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B3
What causes weathering?
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B3
Green River and Colorado River http//www.viking.b
e/Photos/Utah/ Confluence02B.jpg
Honeycomb weathering http//epod.usra.edu/archive/
epodviewer.php3?oid302592
Glacial striations http//gis.geo.ncu.edu.tw/earth
/ glacier/domack1_alaskaglacier.gif
Water Ice Wind
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B4
Digging in the dirt, you find artifacts of an
ancient culture. What types of artifacts might
you find?
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• Tools
• Dishes
• Toys
• Clothing
• Weapons
• Jewelry
• Money
• Art
• Books/letters/other records

B4
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B5
How is weathering different from erosion?
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B5
Weathering breaks rocks into smaller
pieces. Erosion moves those pieces.
www.geographyalltheway.com/year8_geography/coasts/
imagesetc/house_cliff.jpg
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C1
A smaller version of a machine or building that
you can test before building a full-size version
is a ___________________.
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C1
Model or prototype
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C2
How much time does it take for the Earth to
rotate on its axis?
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C2
24 hours or 1 day
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C3
Why is a light bulb harder to recycle than a
glass bottle?
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C3
The light bulb is made of more than one material
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C4
What causes night?
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C4
www.kidsgeo.com/images/earth-terminator.jpg
Earths rotation on its axis causes it to turn
away from the sun.
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C5
List 3 fossil fuels.
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C5
Coal Oil Natural Gas
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6481.jpg
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-1476660.jpg
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D1

• A doctor would measure the weight of a 5th grader
  in
• milligrams
• grams
• kilograms

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D1
Kilograms
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2511.jpg
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D2
Length times width times height equals
___________.
DAILY DOUBLE
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D2
Volume
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D3
If you wanted to find out the distance from
Montreal, Quebec to Toronto, Ontario, instead of
miles you would use _____________.
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D3
Kilometers
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D4
What is the length of this fish in centimeters?
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D4
8 cm
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D5
Base times height would give you the _________ of
a triangle.
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D5
Area
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E1
What is a synonym for investigation?
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E1
Trial, experiment
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E2
What do you use to make observations?
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E2

• Eyes
• Ears
• Nose
• Skin
• Mouth

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E3
Why would you get different results than someone
else if you both followed the directions?
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E3

• Different conditions
• (temperature, air pressure, etc.)
• Unknown variables in materials
• (defective seeds)
• Outside interference
• (insects infest your plants)
• Etc.

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E4
Scientists have to be careful that their
____________ dont affect their reasoning skills.
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E4
Emotions
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E5
If you make a guess about what is going to happen
next, you are making a ___________.
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E5
Prediction