Monday, January 8, 2018

5TH GRADE SCIENCE STUDY NOTES FOR MIDTERMS 2018

STUDY THE FOLLOWING ESSAY IDEAS AND VOCABULARY.  USE YOUR NOTES THAT WERE GIVEN IN CLASS TO STUDY ALSO.

What is the difference between a meteor, meteorite, and a meteoroid? Which one is in space?
 How does distance affect the time it takes a planet to orbit the Sun?

You want to make an accurate model of the solar system that will fit in your classroom for a school science project.             a.  Explain why this will be difficult to do.        b.  How will you solve this problem?

Weather affects everything that we do. List three important weather observations that can be measured.
Explain the tools that would be used to measure that observation.

Identify and analyze the functions of organisms within the population of the ecosystem:
Producers; Consumers; Decomposers.


TYPES OF ECOSYSTEM:
Tundra; Rainforest; grassland; tropical rain forest

clouds                        precipitation          fog                  temperature 

cumulus                     cirrus                         stratus              fog

 atmosphere                  troposphere                 temperature                 
weather                air pressure          oxygen and nitrogen 

insolation          thermometer              microscope                   

barometer                      chronometer     weather              light   

solar system            gravity        revolution;   rotation              

What is the Milky Way?                                   What is a moon?