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Science Fifth Grade Unit Test - Modified

Animals, Ecosystems, and Matter

Part Two

Choose the best answer to each question.

1. The owl butterfly has patterns on its wings that look like large eyes.

How does this adaptation help the butterfly survive?

A. It helps the butterfly see well.

B. It helps the butterfly absorb sunlight.

C. It helps the butterfly scare enemies.

2. A student poured some water from one container into a different one.

Which picture below shows how a liquid keeps its volume, but takes the shape of its container?

3. Which statement best describes what happens if you stir a spoonful of salt and a spoonful of sand into a glass of warm water?

None of the salt and none of the sand will dissolve.

A. All of the salt and all of the sand will dissolve.

B. The salt will dissolve, but the sand will not.

Use the diagram to answer question 4.

4. Which change in the state of matter matches the picture above?

A. a candy bar melting in the sun

B. water evaporating from a puddle

C. water vapor condensing on a window

5. A fifth grade student places these two containers of water into a freezer.

Which of the statements below is true?

A. Jar A will freeze in 30 minutes, but Jar B will freeze in 15 minutes.

B. Both jars of water will freeze at 0°C.

C. Jar B will freeze at 0°C, but Jar A will freeze at -5°C.

6. A wooded area on the edge of the city was cut down to build a neighborhood.

What might happen to the animals that were living in the wooded area?

A. Their populations will decline because they lost their habitat.

B. Their populations will increase because they need more of them to find food.

C. Nothing will really change for the animals.

Use the diagram to answer question 7.

7.

• A fifth grade science class conducted an experiment on density.

• Above is a drawing of what they discovered while conducting the experiment.

Which statement can be concluded from their results?

A. Cooking oil is more dense than honey.

B. Water is more dense than dish soap.

C. Cooking oil is the least dense of all the liquids.

Use the picture to answer question 8.

8. Circle the letter of the characteristics shared by the animals.

A. have a backbone; breathe air

B. have no backbone; live in water after hatching from an egg

C. give birth to live young; have hollow bones

Use the following pictures to answer question 9.

9. What can you infer about the substances from the pictures above?

A. Sugar is soluble in water, but pepper is not.

B. Pepper is soluble in water, but sugar is not.

C. Sugar and pepper have the same solubility.

10.

• An object that is more dense than water will sink.

• An object that is less dense than water will float.

• Water has the density of 1 gram/milliliter.

Below is a table listing the density of four objects.

|Object |Density |

|A |15.00 g/mL |

|B | 0.32 g/mL |

|C | 3.2 g/mL |

Which object will float in water?

A. Object A

B. Object B

C. Object C

Use the picture to answer question 11.

11. The fox and the owl are both ________________.

A. seeking shelter

B. migrating for winter

C. competing for food

12. An energy pyramid shows the amount of energy available to pass from one level of a food chain to the next.

What can you infer about why there are fewer organisms in each level as you move up the energy pyramid?

A. All the organisms from that level have been eaten.

B. Not enough energy is passed to each level to support a large population.

C. Only one animal can fit in the triangle at the top.

Use the diagram to answer question 13.

13. Which environmental factor may have contributed to the increase in the rabbit population?

A. increase in disease

B. increase in pollution

C. decrease in predators

14. Which of the following mixtures could be separated using the slotted spoon shown in the picture?

A. paper clips and water

B. salt and pepper

C. sand and iron filings

15. The drawings below represent the lower jaw of three different animals.

Which jaw comes from an herbivore?

16.

• The antelope in a zoo always walk toward the fence when people come by.

• The antelope waits to be fed cookies by the people visiting the zoo.

This is an example of ________

A. an inherited trait

B. an inherited behavior

C. a learned behavior

Use the picture to answer question 17.

17.

• Lizards have many adaptations that allow them to survive in the hot Texas sun.

• They also have to escape predators that live in their habitat.

Which adaptation is used to help them escape predators?

A. pointed snout

B. scaly skin

C. snap off tail

18. What is the major difference between the life cycle of the beetle and the life cycle of the dragonfly?

A. The beetle turns into an insect and the dragonfly does not.

B. The beetle goes through complete metamorphosis and the dragonfly goes through incomplete metamorphosis.

C. The beetle is a vertebrate and the dragonfly is an invertebrate.

19. Which beaker contains a solution?

A.

B.

C.

Use the food web to answer questions 20 and 21.

20. In a food chain, the arrows show _______________________.

A. how animals hunt

B. how energy flows through an ecosystem

C. where the sun is

21. Infer what effect an increase in sea stars would have on this ecosystem.

A. There would be no effect on the other organisms.

B. The sea otter population would decrease.

C. The snail population would decrease more quickly.

22. Observe the fungi on the log in the picture.

What process is occurring and how does this benefit the ecosystem?

A. photosynthesis; eats the tree to gain energy

B. mimicry; protects the tree from predators

C. decomposition; adds nutrients to the soil

Use the chart to answer question 23.

|Animal |Average Life Span |Food it Eats |Habitat |

|Gila Monster |20 years |Small birds, mammals, eggs, |Desert |

| | |lizards, frogs, insects | |

|Alligator |50 years |Fish, turtles, snakes, small |Marsh |

| | |deer, wading birds | |

|Cooks Tree Boa |20 years |Birds |Rainforest, humid forest areas |

23. Infer which animal would require the least amount of water to survive.

A. Gila Monster

B. Alligator

C. Cooks Tree Boa

24. The picture below shows three solid objects of the same size floating in water.

Which object has the most mass?

A. Object A

B. Object B

C. Object C

Use the picture and information to answer question 25.

25. Infer what type of foot the parrot has.

A.

B.

C.

26. According to the chart below, where does this animal belong?

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A. Cold-Blooded Vertebrate

B. Warm-Blooded Vertebrate

C. Cold-Blooded Invertebrate

Use the pictures to answer question 27.

27. What can you infer about the two birds?

A. Both birds have a wading foot to catch their prey.

B. Both birds live in a forest.

C. Both birds have the same diet.

Use the picture to answer question 28.

28. How is this fish adapted for weedy areas in freshwater lakes?

A. The front of the fish looks like the surface of a rock.

B. The stripes of the fish look like plants in the water.

C. The bottom fins of the fish look like the legs of a frog.

Use the picture to answer question 29.

29. What is allowing the blue heron to stand in the water without sinking?

A. It has a grasping foot that allows it to grab onto the mud.

B. It has a wading foot that distributes the bird’s weight evenly.

C. It has a perching foot that is thin and flexible.

Use the food web to answer question 30.

30. What type of interaction exists between shrimp and blue crabs in this food web?

A. The shrimp decomposes matter for the blue crab.

B. The shrimp help the blue crab filter polluted water.

C. The shrimp compete with the blue crab for food.

Use the pictures below to answer question 31.

31. What do these life cycles have in common?

A. Both animals begin life in the water.

B. Both animals move to the water when they are adults.

C. Both animals go through metamorphosis.

32. Condensation will most likely occur in which of the situations described below?

A. on the outside of a warm cup of coffee

B. in a lake when the sun is shining

C. on the outside of a pitcher of cold lemonade

Use the picture to answer question 33.

33. Beavers build homes called burrows in areas with rivers.

How does the beaver modify his environment to survive?

A. The beaver has an undercoat of fur to protect him from the cold water.

B. The beaver makes his burrow in the dam he builds.

C. The beaver uses his teeth to very carefully chew his food.

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Owl Butterfly

C.

A.

B.

Jar B

Jar A

honey

dish soap

water

cooking oil

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February 2011

December 2011

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= 10 rabbits

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C.

A.

B.

pointed snout

long, thin toes

snap off tail

scaly skin

hind legs

small eyes

Life Cycle of a Beetle

Life Cycle of a Dragonfly

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adult

egg

nymph

sugar and water

fruit, candy and nuts

nickels and pennies

Sea Otters

Large Fish

Large Crabs

Snails

Giant Kelp

(Algae)

Sea Urchins

Sea Stars

Object A

Object B

Object C

water

• The parrot lives in the rainforests of South America and Asia.

• The wild colors make it easy to spot high in the tree tops.

• The parrot climbs around the trees looking for the best, juiciest fruit to eat.

Shark

Animals

Vertebrate

Invertebrate

Warm-Blooded

Cold-Blooded

Mammals

Birds

Fish

Amphibians

Reptiles

Great

Blue

Heron

Belted Kingfisher

Blue Crab

Dead

Matter

Algae

Striped Bass

Shrimp

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